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He has man to head the American drawn attention for his public Civil Liberties Union. frequenting of sex clubs and S/M “1 hope to begin my tenure bars in Washington, D.C., to as the leader of this vitally gather material. important organization by sparking a new dialogue about LaBarbera also has taken to the bedrock values of Ameri the airwaves and the Internet can democracy," the 35-year- to describe homosexuality as a old said. “My overarching sickness that can be cured by goal is to promote a new gen Anthony D. Romero strict adherence to the Scrip eration of committed civil lib tures. Last April, he accused gay ertarians and civil rights activists. Even though we lobbying groups of promoting “dangerous sexual have come so far, our nation faces serious and con practices and radical gender identities such as tinuing civil liberties challenges: widespread racial ‘transgenderism’ ” and showing “utter contempt profiling, threats to reproductive freedom, hostility for those who defend a traditional sexual ethic.” to immigrants, a burgeoning prison population LaBarbera s hiring comes less than a month and, most importantly, a generation of young peo after CWA launched its Cultural and Family ple who do not fully embrace or appreciate the Institute headed by Robert H. Knight. LaHaye need for constant vigilance and defense of our con described him as a “renowned expert and media stitutional freedoms.” favorite on family and social issues” who will Bom in the Bronx of immigrant Puerto focus the new arm of the lobbying group on con Rican parents, Romero is fluent in Spanish. He fronting “homosexual activism and other forces that threaten to undermine marriage, family and graduated from Stanford Law School and religious freedom.” Princeton University. As to issues, Romero said, “First and most importantly, the ACLU’s commitment to free TENNESSEE speech must be undiminished.” But he added egal experts said May 2 that the Tennessee that other core concerns— including religious Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling in favor liberty, reproductive freedom and women’s of a lesbian mother increases protections for gay rights, racial justice, immigrants’ rights and les parents who live with their partners and have bian and gay equality— also will require full or partial custody of their children. Lambda increased attention and resources. Legal Defense and Education Fund filed a ffiend- Romero said his commitment to civil rights, of-the-court brief in the case, explaining that all civil liberties and social justice comes from his available evidence proves a parent’s sexual orien tation is irrelevant to children’s well-being and life experience. “My memories of discrimination, that children do not need to be shielded from homophobia and poverty stand in sharp contrast to the dignity and love 1 got from my family.” their parents’ committed relationships. Romero will start work at the ACLU’s In one of the few cases it ever has considered national headquarters in lower M anhattan in involving lesbian or gay parents, Tennessee’s high September. A native New Yorker, he lives in est court overturned an appeals court decision Manhattan with his partner. that barred a lesbian mother from having her part ner in their home when her two daughters would visit. The appeals court ordered the restriction fol ome Depot, the world’s largest home im lowing arguments from the former husband, who provement retailer, caved in said he wants his children to live by after an outcry from customers and the biblical mandate that unmarried shareholders and agreed May 11 to adults should not live together. add sexual orientation to its nondis Ruling 5-0, the Tennessee crimination policy rather than face Supreme C ourt found no reason a divisive shareholder resolution. why Julia Eldridge should be “Home Depot made a good busi required to have her partner, Lisa ness decision by deciding to add the Franklin, leave their home dur words ‘sexual orientation’ to its ing visits w ith her daughters, nondiscrimination policy,” said Kim noting th at the wom en’s living I. Mills, Human Rights Campaign together caused no harm to the education director. “The company children. “T he record does not responded quickly and favorably to show that [the child in the dis Peter La Barbera its customers and shareholders and pute] is in moral crisis because of now joins 86 percent of the Fortune 50 in pro Ms. Franklin’s presence during overnight vis hibiting this type of discrimination.” itation,” the decision said. The Unitarian Universalist Association suc cessfully had sponsored a proposal, which would NEW YORK have come to a vote during a meeting May 30 in he Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Atlanta, asking Home Depot to amend its nondis Defamation blasted the New York Post for crimination policy. The company publicly op printing the May 8 article “M other’s Day posed such a change in its proxy statement, which Banned.” Andrea Peyser reported on Rodeph was sent to shareholders three weeks ago. Sholom Day School’s decision to stop celebrat ing the holiday in an effort to recognize the increasing diversity of families. he far-right nonprofit Concerned Women “The Post shirked its journalistic responsibili for America has taken a giant stride toward ty, placing an unsubstantiated opinion column becoming one of the nation’s leading groups fo on its front page under the rubric of hard news,” cused on sullying society’s image of sexual mi said Joan M. Garry, GLAAD executive director. norities and undermining their efforts to The newspaper “irresponsibly chose to exploit an achieve equal rights protections, according to unsubstantiated claim that the policy was enact the pro-gay People for the American Way. ed because of complaints from gay parents.” The CWA, which was founded by Beverly The article quoted several anonymous parents LaHaye in 1979 to counter “feminists’ anti-God, who objected to the school’s decision. 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