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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.”
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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.
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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." JTÎ
“The church hierarchy is refusing to
acknowledge their own failings in moving abu
Compiled by News Editor JlM R ado STA, who can
sive priests from parish to parish and protecting
be reached at jim @ justout.com .
criminals instead of children,” said Marianne
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