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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 2001)
September 7.2001 rTîTiTTTWncTInetvs after his anti-Sem itic comm ents first ap peared in the Oregonian. She has been re questing the face-to-face confrontation ever since. “We had an open and candid d*S&ission about issues relating to the school board,” Katz said in a statement. “1 explained to him why 1 thought some of his recent words had been painful to many. Mr. Jackson stated that he intends to continue meeting with members of the community. 1 encourage him to do so.” Meanwhile, Jackson has yet another outspo ken critic to contend with. Portland writer Jeff Muir has launched the Internet site www.dumpderry.org. He says that he is not opposed to the recall effort proposed by Portlanders Against Prejudice but that he doesn’t want to wait until January 2002 to start collecting signatures, as required by law. Instead, Muir hopes to convince Jackson to resign through an “effective, guerrilla, political campaign...whatever we can pull together,” he told the Portland Tribune. | 3 | I g a Attorney Jennifer C . Pizer, who helped write a joint amicus brief filed by Lambda Legal Defense J ancouver can keep providing and Education Fund, the health insurance to gay and les American C ivil Liberties bian employees’ domestic partners, U n ion o f W ashington the Washington Supreme Court and the National A C LU ruled last month. The city has pro Lesbian and Gay Rights vided vital family benefits for the Project, praised the rul dependents of its unmarried, gay and ing. “T h e court has rein nongay, workers since 1998, hut the forced security and fair program was threatened by a lawsuit ness for more families in brought with the help of a right-wing Vancouver and through organization. out W ashington,” she T he Virginia-based Northstar said. Legal Center sued in 1999 on behalf Lambda has assisted of one local resident, Roni Heinsma, cities and counties contending Vancouver cannot around the country in extend any protection to unmarried defending domestic part employees in committed relation ner benefits for unmarried ships because doing so purportedly employees, defeating at would conflict with Washington tacks in Atlanta; C h ica state marriage law. In June 2000, a go; New York; Santa Bar trial court rejected the arguments bara, Calif.; Pima County, and ruled definitively in the city’s Vancouver C ity C ouncilor Jim M oeller praised the W ashington Supreme C ou rt ruling Ariz; and Broward C oun favor, pointing out that Vancouver ty, Fla. “A t a time when the latest census fig has not tried to regulate family relationships in lature’s ability to regulate familial relationships ures show that same-sex couples are living in general, as the marriage laws do, hut instead sim on a statewide level,” Justice Susan Owens virtually every community across the country, ply is ensuring reasonable compensation for its wrote for the majority. we are gratified that yet another state high Openly gay City Councilor Jim Moeller, who own employees. Heinsma then appealed. court has rejected a fringe attempt to block first proposed the policy change in 1997, was But the justices in an 8-1 decision released insurance and other protections for these fam concerned about the lawsuit because conserva Aug. 23 rejected the argument that the local law ilies,” legal director Ruth E. Harlow said. tives successfully have reversed similar benefits creates confusion between the limited, taxable in other states. He said that the ruling didn’t partner benefits offered to unmarried city work come as shock but that the 8-1 majority did. ers and the comprehensive legal recognition T he T rouble with D erry “I was elated,” Moeller said. “1 was surprised provided by Washington’s marriage laws. "W e mbattled Portland Public Schools board at the overwhelming majority. I was thinking we conclude that the city’s recognition of domestic member Derry Jackson finally met with might have less than that, but 1 was feeling pret partnership is limited and that the program does Mayor Vera Katz on Aug. 21, exactly a month ty confident that we would win.” not unconstitutionally interfere with the Legis D omestic P artner B enefits U pheld V T ransportation T riage ome Cascade A ID S P roject clients recently were surprised to learn that, de spite their low income, they no longer could receive transportation assistance from the organization. Even among qualified applicants, for exam ple, transportation manager H elene Rimberg says the program places a priority on serving individuals who live in outlying coun ties and who are living below the federal poverty level. 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