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S chool R efuses to E nroll
L esbian C ouple ’ s D aughter
Portland Pride 2004 in June. Her j»oal is to cre
ate an empowering and welcoming learning
environment for kids like these.
“I want Rainbow Preschixil to reflect the real
world with all its diversity,” Eybel told Just Out.
“Rainbow will he a place where parents will find
support, and children will find encourage-
m en t.... 1 am inspired by young children’s easy
acceptance of most everything. I also want
straight parents to he comfortable with other
kinds of parenting."
Eyhel holds a master’s degree in early child-
hixxl education from Bank Street College, the
largest independent college of progressive edu-
cation in the country. Her co-teacher is also a
Bank Street graduate.
“We believe that children are curious about
the natural and sixial world and work to make
sense of their world," Eyhel says. “C hildren go
out into the world and return to the classroom
and re-create what they experience. Children
are active learners and want to participate in
the world.”
Eyhel works as volunteer coordinator for the
Hambleton Project, a nonprofit organization
offering networking and direct services to les
bians with cancer and other life-threatening
conditions. In her spare time she also is involved
with the Lesbian G arden Club.
n complaints filed with the Eugene Human
Rights Commission and the state Child Care
Division, a lesbian couple have alleged that
because of their sexual orientation, their 4-year-
old daughter was denied admission last month
to O ’Hara Catholic Schixil.
Lee Inktnann, one of the girl’s mothers, said
O ’Hara principal Dianne Bert told her that a
family with two moms would confuse other chil-
dren at the schixil and that same-sex couples
were in conflict with Vatican rulings.
Neither Bert nor representatives from St.
Mary’s Catholic Church, which oversees the
schixil, offered comments on the complaints.
O ’Hara, however, issued a statement that said
the schixil d(x:s not discriminate on the basis of
race, color, national and ethnic origin in admis
sions hut “cannot comment on decisions of aca
demic placement for any specific student."
Bud Bunce, spokesman for the Archdiocese
of Portland, said the decision was based on mul
tiple factors hut would not discuss specifics. “The
schixil did not make the nontraditional lifestyle
of the parents the issue, the parent did," he said.
Inkmann, 43, has been a member of St.
Mary’s since January. She told The Register-
For more information call 505-284-1739.
Guard, “I want my daughter to receive a
Catholic education that will he in keeping with
her teachings at home, and I want to become
G rief G roup R eaches O ut
part of a Catholic community again like I was
to L esbians
when I was a child."
“Living with G rief G roup” will meet from’
Neil Van Steenhergen, an advocate assigned
6 to 7:30 p.m. for six consecutive Thurs
by the city’s Human Rights Commission, hoped
days starting Oct. 16. It is sponsored by the
to offer mediation that would avoid a full hearing,
Hambleton Project, a nonprofit organization
hut Inkmann said schixil officials refused to meet
offering networking and direct services to les
with him. Since his role is only one of intercessor,
however, neither Van Steenhergen nor the com bians with cancer and other life-threatening
conditions.
mission can advise on potential legal remedies.
This professionally led educational/support
Eugene’s city ordinance prohibits discrimina
group is aimed at lesbians and women who part
tion in housing, employment, city contracting
ner with women who have experienced a signif
and public accommixlation based on actual or
icant loss through death. This loss dixzs not have
perceived sexual orientation. W hether a
to he recent.
Catholic schixil is considered a “public accom-
T he group is free and confidential. Organiz
modation," however, has yet to he tested.
ers
request a commitment for the full six weeks.
Dave Fidanque? executive director of the
Oregon American Civil Liberties Union believes
the ordinance should apply because the Catholic , For more mformatiim call 503-335-6591.
schixil “is essentially a business that provides ser- i
vice to the public at large.”
R ecovery R oundup
The schixil, he said, also might he subject
to an Oregon nondiscrim ination law that
ridges in Recovery"— a roundup for all
1 gay, lesbian, hi and trans people in 12-
applies to state-certified, extended-day
preschixils. A com plaint by Inkm ann to the
step recovery programs- will he held from
O regon D epartm ent of Employ-
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hold until the state attorney gener
al’s office makes a ruling.
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he com m unity is invited to
check out R ainbow Pre-
schixil— a queer-friendly learning
e n v iro n m en t for 3- to 5-year-
olds— during an open house from 3
to 4:30 p.m. Sept. 28 at 1244 N.E.
39th Avc. It is located in hut not
affiliated with Bethlehem Luther
an C hurch, which is a welcoming
congregation.
Schixil will run from 9 a.m. to
1 p.m. Monday through Thursday
starting Oct. 1. It will have two
teachers and 15 to 18 children.
Nicki Eyhel says she became
motivated to launch the schixil after
seeing a large number of children at
T
Rainbow Preschool teacher N icki Eybel wants to create
an empowering and welcoming learning environm ent for
the children of queer parents