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i l l I may 3.2002 news ■ Does the financial Eric Brown District Monagei Duddy, executive director of Dignity/USA, an organiza tion for sexual minority Catholics. “And now the American church has joined the Vatican in cynically shifting the blame to gay priests.” ❖ he U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee recom mended April 24 that the entire chamber consider the Employment Non-Discrimi- nation Act. If passed, the legislation would prohibit workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation. New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg waves to the Announcing her support crowd March 16 during the St. Patrick’s Day Parade of the bill, U.S. Sen. Susan 23 million— from 5.4 percent to 8.3 percent of Collins offered two amendments that were U.S. citizens. This represents overall a 53 per accepted by voice vote to bring it more in line cent increase in the number of people protected. with Title VII of 1964’s Civil Rights Act. “In the “ I was always taught that everyone is final analysis, 1 simply do not believe it is fair to equal,” Bloomberg said. “ 1 do this today allow discrimination in the workplace against men and women solely because of their sexual because it is right.” orientation,” the Maine Republican said. ❖ Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., has committed to securing a vote on the ew York Assembly Health Committee bill before the end of the session. ENDA has chairman Richard N. Gottfried, D-Man- hattan, has introduced a bill requrmg the cor support from labor groups such as the AFL-CIO. rectional services commissioner to develop The legislation also has been endorsed by 65 comprehensive sexually transmitted disease and companies, including 29 major corporations. HIV prevention programs in all state prisons. Supporters include AT&T, Coors, Xerox, Fleet Boston, Eastman Kodak, Hewlett-Packard, The legislation would require education, outreach, harm reduction, testing and the avail Microsoft and General Mills. ENDA “goes to the core of what this nation ability of disease barriers such as condoms. A is all about: giving all our citizens the funda recent survey by the U.S. Justice Department mental right to be judged on one’s own merits,” shows New York state prisons have the country’s Shell Oil CEO Steve Miller said. “We encour highest rate of HIV. “We have 70,000 people in our state pris age the Congress to move expeditiously to pass ons,” Gottfried said. “Preventing the spread of this common-sense legislation.” ENDA enjoys widespread, bipartisan sup sexually transmitted diseases and HIV in our port. It has 44 co-sponsors in the Senate and prisons protects the people in the communities 191 in the House. to which the inmates will return when they The public also supports the principles of leave prison and the inmates themselves.” ENDA, according to a June 2001 Gallup Poll. Up from 56 percent in 1977, 85 percent of NATIONAL respondents favored equal opportunity in fter meeting with Pope John Paul II, a few employment for gay men and lesbians. Roman Catholic leaders continued to link the church’s crisis involving the sexual abuse of MONTANA minors to the admission of gay men into the epublican Gov. Judy Martz refused April 18 priesthood. to commit her support for expanded hate “One of the difficulties we do face in semi crimes legislation and compared anti-gay violence nary life or recruitment is made possible when to tree-spiking by environmentalists who want to there does exist a homosexual atmosphere or halt logging projects. She instead said she is taking dynamic that makes heterosexual men think twice” about entering because they fear harass a wait-and-see approach, ment, said Bishop Wilton D. Gregory, head of 365Gay.com reported. State Rep. Christine the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Jur- Kaufmann, the Legisla mg a press briefing April 23. “It’s an ongoing ture’s only openly gay struggle to make sure the Catholic priesthood is member, organized the not dominated by homosexual men.” In talking about the Rome meeting, Cardi meeting to request Martz s support. “The added ele nal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington, D.C., said: “People mentioned problems in soci ment in these hate crimes is that an entire group of ety. One was sexual permissiveness. One was people is really terrorized homosexuality. One was lack of commitment.” The American Psychological Association, by the act because the j uj y Martz perpetrator means to send National Association of Social Workers, Amen- a message to the entire group, not just the people can Academy of Child Psychiatrists and Child Welfare League of Amenca all have policy state who are victims,” the Helena Democrat said. Martz responded: “I go hack to the timber ments indicating no correlation exists between people. Same thing. When they spike trees, it’s to homosexuality and child abuse. In fact, a 1994 scare the whole industry. So I agree with you; it is study found “a child’s risk of being molested by his perpetrated to scare the whole group, hut there or her relative’s heterosexual partner is 100 times are groups out there that get scared., .and it’s not greater than by someone who might be identified right in any case. 1 don’t care what the case is. It as a homosexual.” is not right." 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