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ill i news PALM SPRINGS! ijlt. N A TIO N A L Call on one o f Palm Springs' most trusted Realtors A JOHN BUTLER o f Jay M arg rey & A ssociates 760-323-5000 X 145 johnbutler36@verizon.net imp Prudential California Realty □ .3 !mc, 0 @ MacRory Tip to Clip Weh site launched Feb. 13 thrust Vice President Dick GRADI A PASTEURIZED C heneys openly lesbian daughter, HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Mary, to the center of the nation wide debate concerning same-sex marriage. DearMary.com is soliciting public letters that will he published on the Weh site and in newspaper Mary Cheney and magazine ads paid for hy dona W H O Mary Cheney 3A openly-gay daughter at VP tions. It is the brainchild of the Cheney folks behind l3ontAmend.com and W H A T Silent since her the successful StopDrLaura.com lather endorsed anti gay constitutional amendment campaign. making her and minions at Americans second-class Mary Cheney, 34, has been citizens openly lesbian for years and advo P R E V IO U S JOB cated for the queer community Professional homosexual while working as the paid gay liaison C U R R E N T JOB Running at Qx>rs and serving on the Repub anti-gay dad s ro election campaign in exchange tor lican Unity Coalition Hoard. She S100 000/year has since quit the coalition to run DearMary.com her fathers re-election campaign, where she is reportedly earning $100,000 a year. he office responsible for investigating and “If the vice president thinks gay relationships prosecuting federal workplace discrimina are such a threat to stKiety that we need to amend tive U.S. Ginstitution, then he needs to explain tion reportedly is retreating from looking into why a lesbian in a same-sex relationship is running claims based on sexual orientation, his re-election campaign,” I3earMary.com creator The U.S. Office of Special Counsel removed John Aravosis said. “Are we a threat or aren’t we ?' references to sexual orientation-based discrimi- During the 2000 election, then vice presi- nation from its com plaint form, its basic dential candidate Cheney said he believed the brochure, training slides and a two-page flier same-sex marriage issue should be left to the titled Your Rights as a Federal Employee. It also states. Just last month in an interview with the removed from its Web site a press release issued Colorado press, he flip-flopped, saying he’d now in June that announced the settlement of a case involving discrimination based on sexual orien support a federal constitutional amendment to tation against an applicant to the Internal Rev ban same-sex marriage. “Cheney attacks our families yet seems to enue Service. T he office’s long-established policy was to think his family is irrelevant to the debate,” investigate and enforce disciplinary action Aravosis said. “The vice president is a hypocrite. He is selling his daughter to the highest bidder against sexual orientation-based employment discrim ination involving federal workers. T he in the name of ‘family values.’ The American law, 5 U SC 2302(b)(10), prohibits discrimi people have a right to know that this man is no nation against federal employees or applicants role model for our families or our nation.” on the basis of off-duty conduct that does not affect job perfor m ance. A lth o u g h th e statute contains no explicit reference to sexual orientation, it has long been interpreted to include sexu al o rie n ta tio n . Executive O rder 13087— issued May 28, 1998— reaffirmed th at position. T h e U.S. Office of Personnel M anagem ent continues to assert th at the governm ent has inter preted the statute “to prohibit discrim ination based on sexual orientation. Sexual orientation Julian Bond (left) and H enry Louis Gates are among the means homosexuality, bisexuality black leaders who support marriage equality or heterosexuality.” “President Bush has spoken time and again he N ational Black Justice C oalition aHmt the importance of respect and toler announced Feb. 2 that civil rights leader ance,” said Cheryl Jacques, Human Rights Julian Bond has joined the ranks of African Campaign president. “Make no mistake, there American public figures who support marriage is neither respect nor tolerance in robbing equality. He was speaking in his personal hard-working individuals of their workplace capacity and not for the National Association sccurity.... It would he reprehensible for the for the A dvancem ent of G d o red People, for government to turn the clock back on this which he serves as Hiard chairman. progress for basic fairness.” “I see this as a civil rights issue,” Bond said. “T h at means I support gay civil marriage.” N E W YO R K T he coalition herpes Bond’s statem ent will n response to a case brought by the American encourage other black leaders to come out Civil Liberties U nion, the New York State against marriage discrimination. C oretta Scott LaH>r D epartm ent has agreed to recognize King, Carol Moseley Braun, A1 Sharpton and same-sex relationships in determining eligibility John Lewis already have signed on. for unemployment insurance. A key figure in the civil rights movement, Jeanne Newland left her job in Rochester to Bond co-founded the Student N onviolent be with her partner, who had accepted a higher paying job in Virginia. After nine months of G xrrdinating G rm m ittee in 1960 and later served in the Georgia General Assembly. He searching for a job, Newland was urged by the also teaches at American University and Uni- kxzal unemployment office to file for benefits from versity of Virginia and has narrated numerous the state of New York, which regularly grants such H » 4 owl mmta at: A Place fo r E verything and E ve ryth in g in its P lace... Life is easier with a little organization, whether in your kitchen or on your hard drive. You wouldn’t leave all your groceries out, would you? Then don’t do it with computer files. Your Macintosh will be happier if you organize things into folders: System Folder (for the computer’s files), Applications (programs you use) and Documents (the work you’ve done), creating logical subfolders within those... 13b lv4b ^áb L _ rL ^ "/ o p tim ize (360) 695-6929 M a cs tfe te a ch p e o p le to u se th e m . 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