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SUN 12-5 10% Discount to KBOO Members Just Out needs delivery drivers ^Deliveries are the first and third Friday o f every month. *Call Melissa at 503-236-1252 for information. cWest&icl& dialisi- W e deliver worldwide Same day local delivery ( 503 ) 642-9992 1 - 800 - 356-1884 Teleflora Don Duncan owner Aloha Market Centre 20455 SW TV Highway www.westsideflorist.com NATIO NAL Bush’s campaign allegedly engineered a highly questionable strategy to hide payment to one or more anti-gay operatives, the New York Times reported Jan. 25. Associates of longtime top adviser Karl Rove state that he orchestrated an unethical and potentially illegal deal with Enron for the Texas-based company to retain Ralph Reed as a consultant so the former Christian Coalition executive director could help the campaign without appearing on the candidate’s payroll. The report alleges that the Bush campaign was able to rely on Reed and his ties to the religious right wing without risking its Ralph “compassionate conservatism” message. “The American people deserve a thorough and independent examination of the alleged Karl Rove-Ralph Reed scandal,” said Chad Johnson, National Stonewall Democrats execu tive director. “It’s in everyone’s interest for Pres ident Bush to direct Karl Rove to immediately make all contacts with Enron public and for Congress to ask tough questions. If the facts about Ralph Reed and Enron are true, George W. Bush wrapped his arms around 11 gay Republicans for a photo op while his campaign improperly, and illicitly, masked his real loyalty to the anti-gay right wing.” According to the Times, Reed was paid between $10,000 and $20,000 a month by Enron while he “volunteered" his time on the Bush campaign. Rove’s alleged deal permitted the can didate to solidify his political posi tion among anti gay voters and simultaneously appeal to centrist voters with a mod erate public image. One of the most notorious of these activities by Karl Rove radical-right groups on Bush’s behalf involved a flier sent to legislators during the South Carolina primary, stating that rival U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was tied to gay groups and accordingly was unfit to he president. Who paid for, or disseminated, the gay-baiting materials in support of the campaign never was identified. If the reports prove accurate, it appears like ly Rove, Reed and Enron violated federal elec tion laws and other statutes, which could impli cate others, including Bush. *©* he American Academy of Pediatrics issued a policy statement Feb. 4 supporting legal and legislative efforts to provide second-parent or co-parent adoptions to same-sex couples. It based its position on a review of scientific liter ature, which led it to conclude that such adop tions are in the best interests of children. The policy statement is published in this month’s issue of Pediatrics, a peer-reviewed acad emic journal. It urges academy members to “sup port the right of every child and family to the financial, psychologic and legal security that results from having legally recognized parents who are committed to each other and the wel fare of their children." The statement is accom panied by a technical report providing details from the best available scientific studies of chil dren who grow up with gay or lesbian parents. Only six states and the District of Columbia have made second-parent adoption available statewide, either by statute or state appellate T Reed reportedly rallied religious right court ailing: Connecticut, Illinois, Massachu setts, New Jersey, New York and Vermont. In addition, California’s recently passed domestic partnership law allows tor stepparent adoption, meaning gay men and lesbians are eligible to adopt their partners’ biological children if they wish. A total of 20 other states have awarded second-parent adoptions at the trial court level, hut nothing guarantees judges in other counties would do the same. Pennsylvania recently granted second-parent adoptions in 14 of 67 counties, hut in November 2000 the state Supe rior Court ruled they were no longer available to same-sex parents. R HOD E ISLAN D regional media frenzy has ensued since the Jan. 16 arrests of seven men in an adult video store during a questionable sex sting. All of them were charged with disorderly conduct, and four of them also were charged with loitering for prostitution. Although it is dif ficult to determine where the irresponsibility began, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation said both print and electronic media outlets have been covering the story in a reckless manner. One man whose name and address were printed in the Proi’idence Journal — as well as in his Connecticut hometown paper, the Norwich Bulletin — committed suicide Jan. 20. After this tragedy, the Journal printed an extensive story Jan. 27 on the case listing not just the names and addresses of the men hut also their occupa tions and a full-page spread of their photos. This is not the first time people arrested in public sex raids have taken their own lives after their names and addresses were printed in their local paper. In 1998, a Little R<x:k man killed himself after the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette outed him. The suicide note said: “My name and every thing is in the paper this Morning...Go<xlbye. I love you.” Although printing the names and addresses of those charged with criminal offenses is legal, including the occupations and photos of these men went beyond the boundaries of the news paper’s typical treatment of arrests. According to G LA A D , the frequency of this practice does not make it right regardless. “The Society of Professional Journalists’ Code,, of Ethics states that one of the most important principles of responsible journalism is to minimize harm,” the watchdog group said. “The media have a responsibility to inform the public, but in this case they missed not only a valuable opportunity to investigate the dubious, possibly discriminatory actions of police officials hut also the chance to educate the community about homophobia.” \ M A IN E A ctivists have foiled a divisive effort to
