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Weh site launched Feb. 13
thrust Vice President Dick
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C heneys openly lesbian daughter,
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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
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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
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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
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docum entaries, including the
Oscar-winning A Time for Justice
and th e critically acclaimed
series Eyes on the Prize.
Bond is the second major
black leader to announce his
support for marriage equality in
recent weeks. H arvard professor
Henry Louis G ates told The St.
Petersburg Times Jan. 18: “I
d o n ’t u n d erstan d why the
m ovem ent to legitim ize gay
marriage would H ither people
so m u c h .... W e have to fight to
educate people and transform
th at visceral response [because!
cine of th e strengths of the
black civil rights m ovem ent is
th at it’s served as a model for so
many o th e r m ovem ents. We
who have suffered so much
should also he th e most
com passionate.”
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