Politics MALICE TOCARD 5OME I HAPPEN to be p ro -life ,* D an Q^xivfo u m ! Junng a rrlattvch c m l n to n w n i of hi» televised debate last week w ith A l G o re and James htm lulale A n d so he m , even it a remark he made earlier in the campaign that he would adviie hi» daughter against ter­ m inating a (hypothetical) pregnancy hut would support her in whatever decision die m ight make suggests that he A ir» not understand the im plxations either o f his own position (which is that abortion should he illegal excejd in c a m of rape, uxest, or a threat to the mother's late) or of his parts s (w h ich 1» that a bortion should he illegal in all circumstance») Diere is one issue of human sexuality, however. on w h u h the Vice-President m ight he said to he unecjuivixallv pro- choxe O n the Scpternfxr I ith broad­ cast of A IR » 'D u » Week w ith David B rin k le y , he was asked w hether he thought that homosexuality was rooted in nature or in society ’ M v viewpoint is that its more of a choice than a Nologi sal situation." lie answered, and svent on to say, It ts a wrong choice. I do beliese in most cases it certainly 1» a choice " It is impossible to know w fx tfx r M r Quayfo truly helxses this But the theory that hom osexuality it a m atter o f choice life stele choice,* in the usual fo rm u la tio n — is indispensable to the ptejudxe against homosexuals. Dus year, tlie Rcpuhhcan Parts has given voice to this variety of bigotry in all its forms, from the viru len t, through the m od u ­ lated, to tlx- vers mild. D x undent form got unprecedented exposure at the Re publican Convention this summer, irxxt notably in the speeches o f Patrick Buchanan and Pat Robertson 'D ie m odulated fo rm was expressed in the Party » platfonn, which opposed extend mg cm l nghf» protec tions to gays and al lowing tlx tn to serve m tlx- anned forces l i e m ild form lias been the specialty of the V ie t President and o f President Bush himself, wlx> told an interviewer tlx- week before the Convention that homosexual ity is "a life style that in my view is not normal" and "not n g h t* If by ’ n ot n o rm a l* the President meant that homosexuality is uncharac tenstic of the mayonty— that it deviates from the mean — he was surely cw rect, Imt only in the sense that it is also "not norm al" to have gone to Vale or to have a vacation house in Maine But if "nor rnal means "occurring naturally" one o f its dic tio n a ry d e fin itio n s then he was surely wrong Homosexuality occurs naturally in every human society, and in roughly the same numbers regardless of the level of social tolerance Recent ici entitle evidence suggests, moreover, that sexual orientation correlate» closely w ith genetic factors A study that was con­ ducted by M ichael Bailey, a psychologist at Northwestern University, and Richard Pillard, a psychiatrist at Boston U niver­ sity School of M edicine, and was |xib lished last Dec ember in the J n A rtv i o f General Plyebtatry showed that a m ail has a fifty tw o jx r cent chance o f being gay if f x has an identical tw in - that is, a tw in folly d u rin g tlx same gerxtx make up — w ho is gay. but only a twenty two per-cent chance if he lias a fraternal twin w ho is gay, and m erely an eleven- |>er cent chance it he has an unrelated, adopted brother w lx i is gay Bailey and Pillard have since conducted a sim ilar study of women, with stnkmgfy similar re­ sults "In contrast," they wnte, "research on social factors has been fnntle»».* W hat does correlate w ith "social la» tors" is not homosexuality itsell hut tlx degree of suffering that is imposed upon homosexuals fo r being homosexuals f ven in our s tx x ty , a remarkably toler­ ant one hv global and by historical stan­ dard*, there is almost certainly no such thing as a homosexual— male or female, acknowledged or "closeted" w ho lias nut at some point in his George arxl Barbara Bush, if nor Dan Quavlc. know perfectly well Die lawyer who dress rhe interesting paralk i between »exual unentatkMi arxl harxlcdixv» is John Schlafly, who says that lx- shares i t ct of the [x ilitu a l n n tv of hi» mother, the set eran conservative leader Phyllis Schlafly Die D>g C abin Federation, a national organi/arion of gay aixl lesbian Rejxihli cans, has cix thousand members (It ha* declined to endorse the Bush Q uavlc tx k e t.) D x roster of prominent Rcjxih beans known to he gay ha» included Roy Cohn, tfx lawyer, Rcjncsentativc Sirwart M cK inn ey, of C onnecticut, and Terry D 'la n , t l x celebrated New Right fond r a ix r all of whom d x d of M l» R.ibert M> shac her, o rx of ( !<-■ >rgr Bush's . ildest fneixl», t l x p n ix ip a l fond ra ix r for his three P residential cam paigns, and a form er member of his C abinet, has a forty three year o ld daughter, Diane, who IS a (Xihlnly proclaimed lesbian President and M r» Bu»h w e l­ com ed Dee M osbacher to the W lute I loose in I W f , arxl tfx Pre» ide nt was photographed w ith her and t f x woman her ta tfx r calls her sfxxise A rx l the record of M r Bush as President d id show, in te rm it te nth. some slight consideration tor fuwixnrxuals, csjiecially with trsjxct to tlx A lin ¡«iagix A cco riim g to Adm in istration figures, w hich have Ixe n t f x subject of much debate, federal AIDS spending has increased uixier Busli, and Bush has invited gay f o x i­ er» to t fx W hite l l o u x tor two hill signing», and, w ith his wife, visited AIDS patients in the hospital T h a t sort of thing was dropped as »won as the W h ite llix is r entered what M r Bush calls "campaign mode " A n d it in t lx weeks before t fx election the Bush Quavlc orgaiuzats«1 lu s d ro jy rd N o O n H a te / P o rtla n d -M e tro PA( "1 •» (c4a,«ia ihj{ < c I, J m < oklwl rsxiugh . j I h I r Su js-c the.» t r i , g j , STOP iw » sCj, hu-’ca X » ’ i n n .l» , „ u lu t» - #, > ISXWW» x , 11.4, t f i ^ n i , , . , a n x sc U .. g i vrg.n c C u ixifX aH k c JOCA Cunirttxclioic N o O n H a te PA< Io get in volve d, < all DELORES STRICKLAND 222-9885 for C ounty P O Box 2725 Portland, OK ‘»7208 Commissioner it* attacks on hotnoxxuals, along w ith most o f the rest of its "fa m ily vidues* baggage. it was txit from pangs of con- vcxixe It did »0 purely as a result of re alizing that tfx strategy had heconx po litx a lly counteqirixfoctive. driving away n itxlcratc voters, w ho, whatever their discomfort w ith gay culture, dislike con spicuous display» o f intolerance D ie earlier attacks have not been repudiated, arxl they might not to fx forgotten T h e conservative inoseinent had to fin d another enem y" after the fall o f Com m unism , M arvin l.x b m a n has »ug gested M r L x h m a n , sixty nine years old, is an elder of tfiat movement the groups he has h e ljx d found include, among many others. Vexing American» for Freedom aixl t l x A n x n c a n Corner vative U n io n M r l.iebm an, w ho two year» ago anixxirxcd that l x was gay, in a letter to N ational Rn>eu. has said that homosexuals poisoning society" have been drafted to fill the void "T h e r lx to ru is almost word tor w ord what they u x d about t f x C om m unists schools, H o lly w o o d , m edia e lite ,’ he »aid D xn c code words u x d to mean Jews, hut now they also mean gays * C om m unism , o f course, actually was an enemy of the value» that Am erican society is supposed to stand for The mistake some conservatives made was, instead of just opposing it, to conflate it w ith liberalism. I lotno xxua lify and ho mosexuals are the enemies of no one W hen those who d xn ild wtx> must know better indulge the reflex to de ‘h 'x 'a c r only tlic-m ^'..' fB t DON’T LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT! N tW tfX K fA OCT Measure No. 9 OREGON ARGUMENT IN FAVOR GRETCHEN BUCKMASTER for C ounty Commissioner The MorftiCOMI Women I PolIBcel Csucus STRONGLY OPPOSES MEASURE 9 Ais psj agarx' spar«k ngNs la Mmowsuaf»’ So • • « • flirt no on« ha« •««« a«k«d »0» ■»p«ri«l nght»'I Only lw nghts •«•ryon« should Nav« Io tw from p a w iXsvi to hold 1 a hoow kv« n p«ar« r«e< Measure 9 N a license for bigotry, end an Invftatkxi 10 hate Crimea NO on 9 Atxxxduia 0 w hm k uf I w v i lx ua in the RihU. oysstwwet m g c ro a a b rs s e d ln g r a lt lw , « h a v i n g a h a a r d , w e a r i n g < lo lh tn g m a iU o f nslaad fib a ra , t u ra in g otsa's (m ra n la and a d u lW ry »rs> ju .t «« min. ra) «« h o m .w a u a ii l y If »ha O C A 1« •No Right«’ CoiTunittM want« to tak« on« oT I ha 3.000- > » « old law« of ntu»J fsollne«« from la v llx u a and put It Into the Bill of Right« in the «tala ouiwtltuthca, llw > «bucild ba am .are «(tough to put «11 the ra X of la v ltv s ia into the m nM ltutlon a« well It « ■ Iim pie nsaUar of re«pa<1 fur U h m « hxtorX law« to treat them is>nalatently H r at the Hpes-iaJ Bigfttaouanawa ( 'o m m ilta a are Juat a« . (tended by oyster O i l ng. ahavtng and mixad ft he re a« the OCA te ..(Tended by hot»»eeauably, and we have ;uat ae much right a« the O 'A d«-e In change the state cnrutitullon to reejutra gov em inent diw-runinaUxi agatiiet people whowe fetfsavkir we d oo \ like Mv frsende. d> you want tha public ecdwxla ta a c h l,« your c h lf dren that «having la a legitimate and n p ia l alternative style to a normal and healthy heard'’ Would you want to he fnrvod to hin- an o ya trre a te r to direst y. ur church choir? Adam and Eva wore fig leaves 100 p a rre a il fig I «avow and th b 1* dlvtna pn«.f that tfvwe dlagueUngly unnatural oCbin'pi.lyeater hlanda are einftil And when the na burn OCA eta tletka show that BO pecrvwnl of the people who have engaged in ankual |w>> veiasona are hwtersw asuaj ‘ etrelghl’ ) The state i.ridonea a d u lte ry by not punishing it w ith d e a th a* rwpnred by LwvKleus It pnxndea oyster eating by Ix-analng eeafi»«f reataurenta. and It allow * people tn take mixed fiber« out of the cfeiaet and to flaunt them nght out In puhlx w ith o u t being fired or evx-ted1 The atete is encvxiraging t i n ! K 1 ha ( K A can have the apis »1 right tn make their personal m oral agenda Into faihlX policy, then anyone elae also should ba able to amend the etat« Bill of Rights tn elim inate tueax human nght« for people who they A in 't like le t a put A L L of Iwvltk-ua tnto tha m natitutionl A “yea" vote I* the flret Step In facilitating o ur m ilitant moral agenda ♦ 1 1 ,2 A G R K K W I T H ITH O R B U R N I N H K I J J S p c ia l KightnnoenrM (om m ittew P O Box |M 1 Btrtland, Oregon W72O7 I rtti br M Oonre« Unta CW. dyrt n * a i« x rZ w » « > » » < 1 0 0 « o n S a r e e w «n f X I S 2 Í ’ Z W ) < for Women > M N. v - O locx C annon --------v ChriAhnmty mi^ht be 11 good thing, it anyone tried it. G IVAbnw • P o n ia rd • Canrvv St hewtN ., r ..... Thf p rin lin t '1 rnrnt by 0 * Stnlf anrurrscy or truth v f u i i m l ,ir » , r. nntUuir an rm ^ ra a ( hs*«». n rr ,Uaa ihf abstr uvsrmnr {Ae