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20 JU S t O U t « October t . 2004 news Corner of Sandy Blvd. & NE 64th 3106 NE 64th Portland, OR 97213 . S03~280'8080 NATIONAL he majority of Latino voters are against changing the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage and support nondiscrimination and civil union laws for same-sex couples, according to a poll released Sept. 28 by Bendixen Associates. The survey of 800 registered Latino voters found that 55 percent oppose a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, according to the Human Rights Campaign, which commissioned the poll with the National Latina/o Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgender Organization. Additionally, 73 percent of John Kerry’s supporters and 64 percent of President Bush’s supporters polled said they support laws protect ing gays from discrimination. About 54 percent of voters polled said they would support allowing same-sex couples to legally form civil unions. “We do not support any type of constitution al amendment that hinders the civil rights of any individual. Any constitutional amendment should he progressive, not regressive,” said Gahriela Lemus, director of policy and legisla tion at the League of United Latin American Citizens. “This poll shows that the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment is an ineffective wedge among Latino voters.” T ft'* M y PCe^t^i£. g ifts for Romance in an “Elegant Setting NEW & USED CARS & TRUCKS JOHN MYERS Corner of Sandy Blvd. & NE 64th 3106 NE 64th Portland, OR 97213 503-280-8080 it ''t M y P£e^pc*^c g ifts for Romance in an ‘Elegant Setting S e n d a gift o f p rid e ! Subscriptions to ju stn r r a i make great gifts! Subscribe ot www.justout.com Hechanics that fix everything.1 Including PDX Automotive Is a certified Eco-Logkal Business. ( 5 0 3 ) 282-3315 M«<hanks With A Consdanca 1010 » Gerard Lillie *5934 N i Halsey endorse and support the president for re- election,” Sneed said. “Some callers have ques tioned our right to independent thought and decision with such statements as: ‘You’re blacks; you should have endorsed him as blacks! No gays should support him.’ ” Abe Lincoln national spokesman Anthony Falls said the group will stand by its endorse ment. The caucus does not support same-sex marriage. “We respect the rights of all, hut we do not believe that marriage for gays is right for gays, right for America or right in the eyes of God,” Falls said. edia news stories are leaving bisexuals out of the debate on marriage equality, “mak ing the record factually incomplete” and over simplifying a complex issue, according to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. The group cited several articles in major newspapers that referred to same-sex couples as lesbians even though the women had empha sized their bisexuality to reporters. “Same-sex marriage is more than a lesbian or gay issue. The marriage issue is a big deal for bisexuals who haven’t found their life partner yet,” said Toby Adams, chairwoman of the Plac er County Chapter of Marriage Equality Califor nia. When she married her partner, Jean, in San Francisco last February, most news stories referred to the pair as lesbians. “O n a first date, with everything else going through your mind, who wants to he thinking, ‘So if this is the one, 1 get to look forward to either (a) A life of wedded bliss, or (h) A life of second-class citizenship, depending on what the sex that date happens to be,’ ” Adams said. ❖ he Republican National Committee dis tributed letters last month showing a banned Bible and one man proposing to anoth er, asking voters to “vote Republican to protect our families." The Democratic National Committee denounced the move as “a coordinated effort to target and discriminate against GLBT Ameri cans” and said the Bush-Cher.ey campaign had been linked to anti-gay state ballot measures across the nation. “Instead of running on his failed record, Bush is dividing the country,” DNC chairman Terry McAuliffe said. “On LOUISIANA Nov. 2, Americans will show Bush that we will elevangelist Jimmy Swaggart apologized not he hoodwinked by his hateful politics.” after telling a New Orleans congregation The Human Rights Campaign also that he would kill any gay man who kx>ked at denounced a television advertisement released him “and tell God that he died.” in late September that * Swaggart made the criticizes U.S. Sen. John comments during a tele Kerry’s record on same- vised worship service sex marriage. The ads are Sept. 12. He apologized believed to he the first after complaints were election season ads tar filed with a Canadian geting Kerry on same-sex broadcasting group that marriage. The New York had aired the program, Times reported Sept. 25 and after his Louisiana- that the ads are funded by based Jimmy Swaggart a group headed by Gary Ministries received com Bauer and that $500,000 plaints from several queer is being spent to run them groups. on television stations in During the broadcast, Michigan and Pennsylva Swaggart said: “I’ve never nia. The two are consid seen a man in my life I ered battleground states Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart apologized wanted to marry. And I’m in the November presi going to be blunt and after saying he would kill gays dential election. plain: If one ever looks at HRC president Cheryl Jacques said the ad me like that, I’m going to kill him and tell God campaign “tears at families with gay loved ones, he died." The audience laughed and cheered. like the Cheneys,” referring to Vice President Swaggart later told The Associated Press Dick Cheney’s lesbian daughter, Mary. that he jokingly used the expression “killing someone and telling GtxJ they died" many times •5» about all kinds of people and that it wasn’t he Abe Lincoln Black Republican Cau meant to harm anyone. cus, a group of young, urban, African Cheryl Jacques, president of the Human American, gay Republicans, voted Sept. 22 to Rights Campaign, said Swaggart’s apology fell endorse President Bush for re-election. The short. group’s co-founder, Don Sneed, challenged “Apologies don’t discourage violence, action Patrick Guerriero, executive director of Dig does,” she said. “Wc urge Jimmy Swaggart to Cabin Republicans, to a debate about the affirmatively preach against hate violence. He endorsement two days later. U>g Cabin, a group should use his position in the pulpit to speak up of gay and lesbian Republicans, voted not to for equal treatment for gay, lesbian, bisexual and endorse Bush in this election. transgender people. His initial comments “Unfortunately, we have received many ugly, encourage an environment where hate crimes belligerent and hostile phone calls from gays occur. We appreciate his apology, hut it’s imper across the nation condemning our decision to ative that he do more.” T T T
