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he Gay &. Lesbian Victory Fund, a polit
ical action committee that endorses
openly gay candidates, has condemned a state
ment by Doug Head, Orange County Demo
cratic Party chairman, comparing an openly
gay Republican to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
Head was interviewed by the Orlando Sen -
tinel abtxjt Patrick Howell, a candidate for the
Florida House of Representatives who has the
Victory Fund’s endorsement. The July 30 arti
cle read, in part, “Head said, however, that gay
Democrats crossing party lines to support
Howell would be like a ‘Jew voting for Hitler.’ ”
Bob Kearney, Victory Fund political
director, responded: “H ead’s . analogy IS D oug Head
alarming and reprehensible. There is no
Represented by Lambda Legal, the plaintiffs
comparison between a man who is participating
charge that, despite receiving 40 percent of its bud
in the democratic process and a totalitarian
responsible for the slaughter of millions o f inno get from the state of Georgia, the Home only will
cent people, including Jews and gays. Head’s hire Christians, fired a lesbian counselor because
her sexual orientation conflicted with its religious
attem pt to make sexual orientation a partisan
teachings and refused to hire a highly qualified psy
issue is divisive and ignores the positive contri
butions made to our society by openly gay pub chologist because he is Jewish. The lawsuit also
alleges that the Home requires its staff to provide
lic servants of every political affiliation.’’
services to youth based on its own religious beliefs
Kearney and Victory Fund board member
David de Silva Cornell of Miami Beach respond rather than on sound professional practices.
For example, the Home instructs its staff that
ed to Head’s statement with a letter to the editor
queer kids should be sent into
of the Sentinel, stating: “As your
potentially dangerous inter-
story documented, gay
‘
vcntion therapy to
and lesbian candi
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Republican
undermine
their
dates and office
Patrick
H
owell
sexual
orienta-
holders are in
ashamed to be gay?
tio n . In addi.
the extreme
tion, all youth
minority, but
at the state-
all of them—
funded facility
no
matter
are required to
their
party
attend Methixl-
affiliation— are
ist services, regard
making
great
less
of their religious
strides toward a
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beliefs.
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“Citizens
of Georgia do
democracy. Shame on
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not expect their tax dollars to be
Head for suggesting otherwise
used to fund religious discrimination, and the
Head lashed back by implying Howell is
a sellout. “I...was shocked by the bizarre cam C onstitution does not allow it,” attorney Susan
paign Web site photo of ‘proudly’ gay Mr. How Sommer said. “T h e state must hold the U nited
M ethodist C hildren’s Home accountable and
ell posing as the happy heterosexual family man
stop funding the Home as long as it continues to
with his arm around a female campaign worker
use tax dollars to force its religious beliefs on
and the son of a marriage he left when the boy
young people in state custody and to discrimi
was 2 months old bouncing on his knee.”
nate in employment.”
T he lawsuit charges that the lead plaintiff,
GEORGIA
Aimee Bellmore, was fired because she is a les
n a new case challenging public funding of a
bian and does no t share the Hom e’s religious
religious organization, the U nited Methodist
beliefs about homosexuality. She was a highly
C hildren’s Home in Decatur has been accused
capable youth counselor at the Home who had
of using state tax dollars to discriminate in
been notified in July 2001 that she soon would
employment and to indoctrinate foster youth in
be promoted to the position of family therapist.
religion. Seven Georgia taxpayers filed the law
Instead, Bellmore was terminated in Novem
suit July 31 to stop the state from funding the
ber of that year after the Home learned she was a
organization unless it changes its practices.
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