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DECEMBER 21. 2007 jUStlOUt|l9 First Amendment rights when it barred him from his prom for wearing a dress. K.K. Logan attended West Side High during his junior and senior year and expressed a deeply root ed femininity in his appearance and demeanor. Both classmates and teachers at the school support ed him in his daily attendance dressed in clothes typically associated with girls his age. However, on May 19, 2006, Principal Diane Rouse stretched her arms across the door of the senior prom, blocking Logan’s entrance, according to the lawsuit. His classmates and friends rallied to his defense to no avail, even though a female student was allowed entrance dressed in a tuxedo. Rouse has stood by a school policy that deems inappropriate any “clothing/accessories that adver tise sexual orientation, sex, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, profanity, negative social or negative educational statements.” “The fact that sexual orientation is lumped in with drugs and profanity in the school’s dress code is just plain offensive, but even more troublesome is that the whole policy is in violation of students’ First Amendment rights,” said James P. Madigan, staff attorney in Lambda Legal’s Midwest regional office in Chicago. “There are ways to write policies that both create rules for student behavior and also respect their rights—but this isn’t one of them." Lambda Legal argues that Logan’s First Amendment rights were violated, including the freedoms of speech, symbolic action and expressive conduct. The school district also engaged in unlaw ful discrimination on the basis of sex and gender. “1 dress this way because it’s who I am and how 1 feel on the inside,” said Logan. IOWA Huckabee Reiterates Anti-Gay Messages Presidential candidate and Christian conserva tive darling Mike Huckabee told a gathering of supporters Dec. 12 that he possessed the toughest position against same-sex marriage of any Republican candidate. “Unless Moses comes down with two stone tablets from Brokeback Mountain to tell us something different, we need to keep that understanding of marriage,” Huckabee said to the gathering in Iowa. The former Arkansas governor is becoming the object of scrutiny from queer activists. Opponents recall a comment he made in 1992 stating that gays lived “an aberrant, unnatural and sinful lifestyle" and that AIDS patients should be isolated. On his Web site, Huckabee is leaning on this record that he got a constitutional amendment Wishing You Peace, Pride & Prosperity Throughout the Season Mercy Corps Ä- bril when you fruy or sell a home with Q Center me, you'll know your Mars are National Gay b 4 helpiqj sujfjrort a greater cause. I contribute at least 10% of my & Lesbian Taskforce * 3 riimiinp to community and B Basic Rights Oregon K Portland Lesbian Choir Habitat for Humanity environmental organizations. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee came out as the presidential candidate most strongly against gay rights. passed in Arkansas in 2002 defining marriage as between one man and one woman. While all Republican presidential candidates oppose same-sex marriage, not all back a constitu tional amendment banning it, and their views on civil unions vary. Fluckabee also says he opposes civil unions. “When you create a validity and actually put a sort of government approval on the behavior, 1 think that is a different set of rules than, say, a person makes a lifestyle decision, and that’s choice," Huckabee told The Boston Globe. However, the candidate apologized for any hurt his statement about AIDS might have caused to patients or their families, and he said he’d be will ing to meet with Ryan White’s family. 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