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¡une 21, 200? » nrnTiTTTTTnews Everybody needs a little help sometimes Sincere, Confidential Support NATIONAL I I Self-esteem • Spiritual Exploration • Anxiety Family Patterns • Coming Out • Alcoholism y resident Bush’s proposal to create a Homeland Security Depart ment perpetuates a double standard for gay, lesbian and bi Coast Guardsmen that should be removed, accord ing to Service- members Legal Defense Network. In making the announcement June 6, he suggested the U .S. Coast Guard be moved from the Trans President Bush prepares for his June 6 speech about the Homeland Security portation Depart Department with counselor Karen Hughes at the W hite House ment to the new gay and lesbian individuals and couples are capa Cabinet-level agency. Under his plan, Coast ble of meeting the best interest of the child and Guardsmen would work alongside officials from should he afforded the same rights and should the Secret Service, Customs Service and the Immi accept the same responsibilities as heterosexual gration and Naturalization Service, among others. parents.” T h e plan, however, would mean C oast Association president Newell Fisher took a Guardsmen are the only members o f the new firm stand against discrimination in adoptions. department who would continue to be fired on He criticized opponents who distort the truth. the basis o f sexual orientation under the m ili “It is disturbing to hear about cases in which tary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell" policy. All other gay or lesbian parents are being denied custody agencies would be covered by an executive or the right to adopt solely on the basis of their order, implemented by the C linton administra sexual orientation,” Fisher said. “T h at’s discrim tion and still in effect under the Bush adminis ination. T h e American Psychoanalytic Associa tration, prohibiting discrimination on the basis tion deplores such discrimination and is espe o f sexual orientation. cially troubled when psychological findings are “The president’s propositi presents a unique distorted, misrepresented or blatantly ignored, opportunity for the White House and Congress to as is so often the case in these legal decisions.” free the Coast Guard from the military’s policies of anti-gay discrimination,” said Sharra E. Greer, -$» SLDN legal director. “The Department of Home ignity/USA, the nation’s foremost organi land Security will recruit America’s best and bright zation of queer Catholics, reacted with est, including linguists and intelligence officers. cautious optimism to the U .S. Catholic Bishops “There is no question that lesbian, gay, bi Conference draft policy on pedophilia June 5. sexual and transgender Americans have been, T h e document contained no mention of sexual and will continue to he, a part of our nation’s orientation as a factor, contrary to earlier state defense. In his proposal to Congress, President ments from Vatican leaders. Bush should recognize their contributions and “The church and the victims of sexual abuse free this new agency from the hypocrisy o f a have been waiting for the bishops to acknowledge dangerous, anti-gay double standard." their own fault in perpetuating a system of abuse Greer noted that almost as many members of and cover-up,” Dignity/USA president Mary Team Coast Guard are protected from anti-gay Louise Cervone said. “They finally seem to he discrimination by executive order as are subject to admitting that they were a big part of the problem." “don’t ask, don’t tell” in the first place. “Already, Dignity/USA acknowledged that the exclu Coast Guardsmen serve alongside openly gay peo sion of blame on gay men is not a final resolu ple as they protect our nation,” she said. tion to the conflict begun by Vatican spokesman Novarro-Vails in March. •9» “Repeated, unsubstantiated slurs against gay he nation’s leading group of psychoanalysts priests— and, by extension, the entire gay com announced May 28 that the best interest of munity— have persisted for months and have the child— not sexual orientation— should he the come from some of the most powerful men in determining factor in parenting decisions regard our chu rch,” executive director M arianne ing conception, child rearing, adoption, visitation Duddy said. “We continue to demand a full and custody disputes. The organization also gave a retraction of all statements linking homosexual strong endorsement to same-sex parenting, saying ity and child abuse." gay people can he just as capable as other parents. “Acc umu late d evidence suggests the best interest of the child requires attach ment to committed, nurturing and com petent parents,” the Am erican Psycho analytic Association said in a statement. “Evaluation o f an individual or couple for these parental qualities should he determined without prejudice regarding sexual orientation. 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