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Tuesday M AY 25* | ¡ ¡ Tuesday ^ 4 * MARCH 23" Stephen L Buchmann Gerry Ellis Buchmann's program to conserve traditional Mayan beekeeping in tropical forests. S10/S8 Globio's never-before-seen footage of baby pandas in China. S15/S10 Lectures will be held in the Oregon Zoo's Cascade Banquet Center and begin at 7:00 pm. For inform ation or tickets call: 503-226-1561 xO Uffio /¡p ; A IIKV IC I O f MITHO i CANADA A former member o f the British G ilum hia Cabinet has married his male partner. Full same-sex marriage was legalized in the Canadian provinces o f British Colum bia and Ontario last year by their respective highest courts. Member o f the Legislative Assembly Ted Nebbeling, the minister o f state for the C o m munity Charter and the 2010 O lym pic hid until last month, married his partner o f 32 years, Jan Holmherg, in November, The Vancouver Sun reported Jan. 26. T he paper said it was “ believed to be the first same-sex marriage o f a Cabinet minister any where in the world.” “ W e thought it was a great opportunity to renew our com m itm ent togeth er,” Nebbeling said. British Colum bia Premier G ordon Campbell shuffled his Cabinet on Jan. 26 and did not re appoint Nebbeling. Campbell said the decision was unrelated to N ebbeling’s wedding. A member o f Parliament who made disparag- / \ ing remarks about gays has been dumped by his political party. In November, Canadian Alliance MP Larry Spencer told The Vancouver Sun: “ I d o believe it was a mistake to have legalized [gay sex]. I just wish that there was some way that society could stand up and say, ‘This is not right.’ [If] anylxxJy that used C olgate toothpaste, their life expectancy was lowered by 10, 15 years, what do you think would happen to G d g a te tix>thpaste.? It would be outlawed. W ell, we know that’s what happens to men living a gay lifestyle.” Spencer, who represents Regina, Saskatche wan, also claimed gays stage “conven tions” to plot the seduction o f children. “ For this group o f people to express themselves sexually, they’re going to have to d o the recruiting a n d ...it’s going to com e by seduction,” he said. As a result o f these remarks, the Ginservative Party o f Canada— which was created in D ecem ber by the merger o f the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Gm servative parties— voted Feb. 4 that Spencer is no longer welcom e in its ranks. Should he seek re-election in his district, he will have to mn as an independent. Sponsored by w w w .oreg on zoo.org ^ BUY SEASON TICKETS AND SAVE $40 general admission $30 for members of host organizations, students and seniors Ted N ebbeling is believed to be the w orld’s first Cabinet minister in a same-sex marriage ^•***1»’" he Montreal Police Service will begin test ing new recruits for H IV and rejecting th (»e w ho are positive, local media reported Jan. 24- Current officers will not be tested. A city spokesman said the tests are necessary to protect public health and save money. T he British Colum bia G d le g e o f Teachers, the province’s teacher certification and regulation body, did not violate the rights o f a high schcxil teacher it suspended for writing anti-gay letters to a local newspaper, the provin cial Supreme Court ruled Feb. 5. Chris Kempling, w h o teaches in the south central tow n o f Q uesnel, faces a m onth o f d e certification that will be postpon ed again while he appeals to the p rov in ce’s highest court, the C ourt o f A ppeal. If he loses there, K em pling promises to push o n to the Supreme Court o f Canada. Kempling says his rights to freedom o f expres sion and religion, as guaranteed by Canada’s Charter o f Rights and Freedoms, have been vio lated. T h e G illege o f Teachers says his “discrim inatory” and “derogatory” statements constituted unbecom ing conduct that conflicted with the provincial education system’s com m itm ent to equality, dignity and respect for gay people. In ruling against Kempling, Supreme G xirt Justice Ronald Holmes stated: “ Discriminatory speech is incompatible with the search for truth.... By publicly linking his private, discriminatory views o f homosexuality with his status and profes sional judgment as a teacher and secondary schtxil counselor, the appellant called into question his own preparedness to be impartial in the fulfillment o f his professional and legal obligations to all stu dents, as well as the impartiality o f the school sys tem. That in itself is a harmful impact on the schtxil system as a nondiscriminatory entity.” B .C . teacher Chris Kempling was suspended for writing anti-gay letters to a local newspaper ♦3* total o f 700 same-sex couples got married in British Gilum bia last year after the G>urt o f Appeal opened up the institution July 8, The Vancouver Sun reported Jan. 28. O f these 1,400 people, 847 hailed from outside the province. Nonresidents, including foreigners, can get married in the provinces o f British G ilum - hia and Ontario— arriving, buying a license and marrying the same day in either locale. A total o f 766 o f the newlyweds were U.S. citizens, and 21 cam e from Australia, the U n it ed Kingdom, France, H ong Kong, Ireland, New Zealand and Switzerland. T h e rest came from elsewhere in Canada— Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Q uebec and the Yukon. C anada’s federal governm ent has said that it agrees with the British C olu m b ia and O ntario court decisions open in g up regular marriage to same-sex couples in 2003 and that it will pass legislation legalizing same-sex mar riage across the country— although new Prime Minister Paul Martin is seen as less keen on the idea than his predecessor, Jean Chretien, w h o made the pledge. T h e governm ent added a question Jan. 28 to its pending request for advice from the Supreme A
