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we remain in a place
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the fairest manner possi
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| | resident-elect George W. Bush
1. nominated Donald Rumsfeld to
serve as defense secretary Dec. 28.
A veteran of the Ford and Nixon
administrations, he served as G er
ald Ford’s defense secretary from
1975 to 1977.
Rumsfeld’s views on gays in the
military are not fully known. W hen
asked whether he would take
another look at the issue, he
President-elect
replied, “T h e priorities are in other
ith
George
W. Bush’s
areas for me.”
nomination Dec. 29 of
Back in January 1993— the
Houston
Independent
beginning of the debate on gays in
Donald
Rumsfeld
School
District
chief Rod
the military— Rumsfeld criticized
Paige to head the U .S. Education Department,
Defense Secretary Les Aspin for openly ques
the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education
tioning the efficacy o f lifting the ban on gays in
Network restated its call for the incoming
the military given the vocal resistance by top
secretary to utilize every available resource to
military leaders. In an interview with the Los
com bat the pervasive harassment leveled
Angeles Times, he said that a defense secretary
against queer youth in schools throughout the
must “lead by persuasion” and that the military
United States.
chiefs “will do precisely what they are told.”
“Mr. Paige has earned a reputation as a
C. Dixon Osbum, Servicemembers Legal
results-oriented administrator interested in
Defense Network co-executive director, said:
holding schools accountable,” G LSEN execu
“We look forward to working with Mr. Rums
tive director Kevin Jennings said. “We, too,
feld. We believe that he is a reasonable man
want to hold schools accountable— accountable
and a strong leader who will keep the doors
to the notion that all students deserve environ
open to communication. We have one simple
ments of safety and basic respect.”
request: Follow the law. Don’t ask. Don’t pur
Jennings noted a recent Centers for Disease
sue. Don’t harass.
Control
and Prevention study indicating queer
“W hile we believe ‘don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t
students are more than three times as likely as
pursue, don’t harass’ hurts military readiness, the
nongay students to be threatened with a
weapon while at school. According to
G L SE N , the education secretary is
responsible for the overall direction,
supervision and coordination of all
activities of the department and is the
principal adviser to the president on fed
eral education priorities, policies, pro
grams and activities related to education
in the United States.
“President-elect Bush stated time and
again that our schools must be held
accountable— and we hope that he will
help to hold them accountable to pro
tecting some of our most at-risk stu
dents,” GLSEN public policy director
Mary Kate (M K) Cullen said. “We look
forward to the new secretary of educa
tion setting a positive tone and adding
his voice to the growing chorus of voices
working to end anti-gay harassment in
K -12 schools.”
Rod Paige
he head o f the nation’s largest
organization o f lesbian, gay, bisex
ual and transgendered physicians Jan. 4
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