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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.
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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.”
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M A IN E
A ctivists have foiled a divisive effort to