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i TIYTT u TTIT r n e w s JEW EL A. ROBINSON See my E x c lu sive L istin g s on our w ebpage Multimillion $ Producer OFFICE (503) 281-4040 VO IC E MAIL (503) 301-4283 E-M AIL Jewel2U@teleport.com G rS 1730 N.E. 10th Avenue Portland, OR 97212 Prudential http://www. Northwest Propcrti«* p fU - n W .C O m Andy Cruz * 503-252-3560 Chiropractic Physician Optimal Health Chiropractic Two sites to serve you: 2281 N W Hoyt Street 12425 NE Glisan Street .com P urchase Y our N ext S ubaru or C hevrolet O nline Contact our internet fleet manager directly: K en E by keby@carrauto.com (5 0 3 ) 7 0 1 -9 8 1 1 hibited from attending wearing what the princi r. Laura Schlessinger’s apology to gays and pal considered to be girls’ clothing. This exclu lesbians Oct. 11 has been greeted with sion followed almost two years of disciplinary action against her for wearing girls’ clothing, groans of “too little, too late,” Reuters reports. Her statement was printed in a full-page starting from the time she began to identify as advertisement published in a special “Gay Hol transgendered. Despite acknowledging that girls who wore lywood” edition of the entertainment trade the same clothes Pat did paper Daily Variety. It _______ _ were not prevented from appeared as a signed let attending or otherwise ter under the headline disciplined, the school “A heartfelt message tried to justify its exclu The heben d»y ¿i tht JteiÄ Year, Ye», Kipfur, :hc £*> of Aio&erntr.t. from Dr. Laura Schles Ml fiy.ee. is the 4ay à * : Jr** dvoufheut she wocii x<5ect c<\ sion of her based on singer” and invoked íh*:f h': d*.c p»sc *ia.\ other students’ discom Oct. 9’s observance of Î to ufc* »his ejçeraiur; taxfrei dirseli? to eh* fay and tobun nr: e n * in Hol;y**coc. :* i «lie rhromhros ta« counuv- fort. The court rejected Yom Kippur. l ¿X?r*n jt * o p n iay frz™ â t yanpectiv« s i w O rnear* Jew this argument, holding “While 1 express my tr.d tttfeiach i t k x k t C ’i the : ridien ti femdr. .r. ralicitvf above ftyi lfi¿ -«ibuMo. y>T.< et my word; vere poorly rAoitn. Mtny ptçpie that prohibiting her opinions from the per perte,v« ¿er*. u Hete rpceth. Tan ia:i hu « e n pcacaiUv ar.d vJew^uni to jf. t u » «lì a îo flr.uvy ethe?» UfW »cti« from wearing girls’ spective of an Orthodox teeu :eís:ík»iír rtptt:«4 ina ;of f»r sto jpnf clothing was akin to Jew and a staunch A» ar.f. ci ù i< fiir. racic *hcw baiti ci take tallì item open!* “the stifling of plaintiff’s defender of the tradi gay anr Uih »r !ú:e:veri, »any »■he e u t ir. with their tendit:. ffi't ‘*>ews hive »er. ro * ju rr cvev jb.euî the vean. rt«ih*i m iu vucH selfhood merely because tional family, in talking 0 «if one ir.atncf ird slv - < : n r . « t i e t h e ;c :rjjc r l h;v» nie. it causes some members :»b vz*r p;er.ts ;© Men*. and TJs¿ ! kavs iafc. embrace and about gays and lesbians, tuîcHiîc " » hivr reíd parer.« rcr.v*tep.:h- that il; people of the community dis some of my words were *:e .r.ad« ;hc :ru f* i f C -¿ «v¿ :La: kns :* rere impetran* thin ir.yd-dfaiencit bc*.u*«n theru- comfort.” poorly chosen,” she On :::t Cvv cl Aw ness« r.;, -fat ¿;e tca’sniitiei ;c> ucl. f.:i*«vertfi The court affirmed wrote. “Many people rfesr. i tifie have Hun ! c.çp.\ rejan 4.x h-:: thu that transgendered stu perceive them as hate .¿•¿sed the fiv *r»i dents need the same speech. This fact has [, I ') support and protection r/ft. been personally and pro .■ V for their safety as other fessionally devastating ' a LRÀ-C ÏCHtcSSisaEU students. It further rec to me as well as to many ognized that “exposing others. Ugly words have children to diversity at been relentlessly repeat an early age serves the important social goals of ed and distorted for far too long.” increasing their ability to tolerate differences” In closing the letter, Schlessinger wrote: “On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to and teaches “respect for everyone’s unique per seek forgiveness from people we may have hurt. sonal experience.” I deeply regret the hurt this situation has caused the gay and lesbian community.” ARIZONA Leaders of several gay rights groups ques he Arizona Rainbow Veterans have com tioned Schlessinger’s timing. Four Canadian pleted the “Rainbow Memorial,” the first in the National Cemetery System to acknowl television stations dropped her talk show, Dr. Laura, earlier this month because of poor ratings. edge the service of gays and lesbians. “Laura Schlessinger once again blames oth The memorial is being donated by the Gay, ers for the impact of her rhetoric, refusing to Lesbian and Bisexual Veterans of America. The take responsibility for her precisely chosen, sci Arizona Rainbow Veterans, a group of Phoenix entifically inaccurate descriptions of gay and les gay and lesbian vets who designed and won bian lives,” said Joan Garry, Gay & Lesbian approval for the monument, announced that Alliance Against Defamation executive direc the money has been raised and that they are tor. “Schlessinger’s tepid assertion that her anti preparing for a dedication ceremony Nov. 11 at gay words were ‘poorly chosen’ represents the Arizona National Memorial Cemetery in another blow to her waning credibility.” Phtx;nix. The sunrise service will be conducted by the MASSACHUSETTS Rev. Patrick Stout of the Community Church of Massachusetts Superior Court in Brockton Hope. Because of the Veterans Day Parade in ruled Oct. 11 that a middle school may not Phoenix, a small group of veterans are expected prohibit a transgendered student from express to gather at the cemetery for the dedication. ing her gender identity even if that expression The memorial is a boulder-shaped, rainbow does not conform with the sex ascribed to her at granite monument inscribed, “In memory of all birth. In a case brought by Gay & Lesbian who served with courage and pride.” The design Advocates &. Defenders on behalf of a 15-year- was approved by the Department of Veterans old who was bom male but has a female gender Affairs in August. identity, the court ruled that disciplining a bio “We can never repay the sacrifices made by logically male student for wearing girls’ clothing America’s veterans,” said would violate her First Amendment right of free Wally Straughn, Arizona expression and constitute sex discrimination. Rainbow Veterans president. “As the first reported decision addressing “The best we can do is to pay the rights of a transgendered student to express tribute to their descendants and her gender identity in school, it is tremen honor their memory.” He pointed dously important,” said GLAD staff attor out that the memorial is intend ney Jennifer Levi, who argued the case. ed to be all-inclusive, not lim “We know that a large number of trans ited to the memory of only gendered students face serious hostil gay and lesbian veterans but ity from teachers and administrators dedicated to the service of all who lack a basic understanding 9 veterans. about gender identity. This case ,0 confirms that a schcxd may not exert NATIONAL its authority over a student simply to ivil rights organizations roundly criticized a enforce stereotyped ideas of how boys and girls U.S. Senate conference committee for vot should kxik. Nor can a schcxd’s discomfort with ing 11-9 on Oct. 5 to remove a hate crimes pro the fact that a biologically male student has a vision from a defense authorization hill. John female gender identity justify enforcing a dress Warner, R-Va., Senate Armed Services Com code in a discriminatory way.” mittee chairman, said he recommended that the The case was brought against the Brockton language he stripped from the legislation to has School Department when “Pat D>e” was pro- ten its approval. CALIFORNIA D T A
