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TODAY
Controversial bust of York will likely
come down, but what replaces it?
Today is Monday, June 14, the
165th day of 2021. There are
200 days left in the year. This is
Flag Day.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On June 14, 1993, President Bill
Clinton nominated Judge Ruth
Bader Ginsburg to serve on the
U.S. Supreme Court.
In 1775, the Continental Army,
forerunner of the United States
Army, was created.
In 1777, the Second Continental
Congress approved the design
of the original American flag.
In 1846, a group of U.S. settlers
in Sonoma proclaimed the Re-
public of California.
In 1911, the British ocean liner
RMS Olympic set out on its
maiden voyage for New York, ar-
riving one week later. (The ship’s
captain was Edward John Smith,
who went on to command the
ill-fated RMS Titanic the follow-
ing year.)
In 1922, Warren G. Harding
became the first president heard
on radio, as Baltimore station
WEAR broadcast his speech
dedicating the Francis Scott Key
memorial at Fort McHenry.
In 1940, German troops entered
Paris during World War II; the
same day, the Nazis began
transporting prisoners to the
Auschwitz concentration camp
in German-occupied Poland.
In 1943, the U.S. Supreme Court,
in West Virginia State Board
of Education v. Barnette, ruled
6-3 that public school students
could not be forced to salute the
flag of the United States.
In 1954, President Dwight D.
Eisenhower signed a measure
adding the phrase “under God”
to the Pledge of Allegiance.
In 1972, the Environmental Pro-
tection Agency ordered a ban
on domestic use of the pesticide
DDT, to take effect at year’s end.
In 1982, Argentine forces sur-
rendered to British troops on the
disputed Falkland Islands.
In 2017, a rifle-wielding gunman
opened fire on Republican
lawmakers at a congressional
baseball practice in Alexandria,
Virginia, wounding House Whip
Steve Scalise and several others;
the assailant died in a battle with
police. Fire ripped through the
24-story Grenfell Tower in West
London, killing 71 people.
Ten years ago: President Barack
Obama made a four-hour visit to
Puerto Rico, becoming the first
president since John F. Kennedy
to make an official visit to the
U.S. territory.
Five years ago: A 2-year-old
boy was dragged into the water
by an alligator near Disney’s
upscale Grand Floridian Resort
& Spa; the child’s remains were
found the following day.
One year ago: Atlanta Police
released video showing the so-
briety check of Rayshard Brooks
outside a Wendy’s restaurant
that quickly spun out of control,
ending in police gunfire that left
Brooks dead.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor Marla
Gibbs is 90. House Country-rock
musician Spooner Oldham is
78. Rock singer Rod Argent (The
Zombies; Argent) is 76. Former
President Donald Trump is 75.
Singer Janet Lennon (The Lennon
Sisters) is 75. Rock musician Barry
Melton is 74. Rock musician Alan
White (Yes) is 72. Olympic gold
medal speed skater Eric Heiden is
63. Jazz musician Marcus Miller is
62. Singer Boy George is 60. Rock
musician Chris DeGarmo is 58.
Actor Traylor Howard is 55. Actor
Yasmine Bleeth is 53. Actor Faizon
Love is 53. Actor Stephen Wallem
is 53. International Tennis Hall
of Famer Steffi Graf is 52. Actor
Lawrence Saint-Victor is 39. Actor
Torrance Coombs is 38. Actor J.R.
Martinez is 38.
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BY KRISTIAN FODEN-VENCIL
Oregon Public Broadcasting
The city of Portland is plan-
ning to eventually take down
the controversial statue of York
— the only Black member of
the Lewis and Clark expedition
— which appeared in place of a
toppled statue at Mount Tabor
Park this spring.
What they’ll replace it with
is yet to be decided.
The bust of York mysteri-
ously appeared after the statue
of Harvey Scott, a controversial
newspaper editor, was toppled
during the racial justice pro-
tests last summer. And it’s been
vandalized twice since then.
The base of the statue was
vandalized in March, when
someone spray painted on it,
“His Blood Is on Your Hands”
and “Decolonize.” Then, in
the past week, a woman was
caught on video covering
much of the plinth in purple
spray paint.
Police announced Thurs-
day that Jeanette Grode, 43, of
Portland, is the suspect in the
most recent act of vandalism
and has been cited for criminal
Catalina Gaitán/The Oregonian
A statue commemorating York, an enslaved Black member of the Lewis
and Clark expedition, was defaced last week in Portland.
mischief and abuse of vener-
ated objects.
Portland arts program man-
ager Jeff Hawthorne says the
statue will eventually have to
come down.
“It was always intended
to be temporary, so we can’t
accession that sculpture the
way it’s currently constructed
into the public art collection,”
Hawthorne said. “And, in fact,
it will have to come down at
some point.”
He said the statue is made of
wood and urethane, not bronze,
so it won’t weather well. But he
added that the piece can remain
there as long as it is viable and
doesn’t pose a danger to anyone,
and that may not happen for
months or years.
Hawthorne said the city is in
touch with some artists, and a
similar bronze version could
go back in its place. But that’ll
be decided in community dis-
cussions with the city and the
Regional Arts and Culture
Council this summer.
The Harvey Scott sculp-
ture was damaged, though not
beyond repair. But the city is
leaning toward deaccession,
mainly because of sustained
opposition to the sculpture.
Because that part of Mount
Tabor is in a historical district,
there are legal requirements for
the city to remove the Harvey
Scott sculpture from its hold-
ings. The city needs to first
indicate its intention not to
return the sculpture to its old
location and then have discus-
sions about what might go in
its place.
RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS IN EDUCATION
Title IX lawsuit filed in Oregon pits some
LGBTQ allies against Biden Justice Department
BY MICHELLE BOORSTEIN
The Washington Post
The Justice Department in
a recent court filing said it can
“vigorously” defend a religious
exemption from federal civil
rights law that allows feder-
ally funded religious schools to
discriminate against LGBTQ
students. The filing relates to a
pending lawsuit in which doz-
ens of such students accuse
conservative religious universi-
ties and colleges of discrimina-
tion and harm.
Some LGBTQ advocates
were disturbed by the filing,
which came Tuesday in U.S.
District Court in Oregon . They
want the administration to
agree with them that it’s un-
constitutional for federally
funded schools to discriminate
against LGBTQ people, and
that the exemption isn’t defen-
sible.
“What this means is that the
government is now aligning
itself with anti-LGBTQ hate
in order to vigorously defend
an exemption that everyone
knows causes severe harm to
LGBTQ students using tax-
payer money,” Paul Carlos
Southwick, director of the
Portland-based Religious Ex-
emption Accountability Proj-
ect, which filed the case in
March on behalf of dozens of
current and past students at
conservative religious colleges
and universities, said Tuesday.
“It will make our case harder if
the federal government plans
to vigorously defend it like they
have indicated.”
To others, including sup-
porters of President Joe Biden,
the administration had no
other option, since federal civil
rights law regarding education
— called Title IX — exempts
Jose Luis Magana/AP
With the U.S. Capitol in the background, LGBTQ rights supporters gather
at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., for a large pride rally Saturday.
religion. They noted the pur-
pose of the department’s filing,
which was to block conserva-
tive religious groups from be-
coming parties to the lawsuit,
arguing the agency can defend
the exemption on its own.
However, in a possible sign
of the pressure on the admin-
istration, the Justice Depart-
ment amended the document
Wednesday, taking out the
word “vigorously” to describe
its defense of the religious ex-
emption and retaining multiple
uses of the word “adequate.” It
removed wording that said the
Department of Education and
the Christian schools “share
the same ‘ultimate objective’
… namely, to uphold the Re-
ligious Exemption as it is cur-
rently applied.”
In a Wednesday piece titled
“No, the Biden Administra-
tion Isn’t Betraying Its Support
for LGBTQ Rights,” Slate legal
writer Mark Joseph Stern said
the Justice Department was
“trying to prevent a Christian
organization from … mount-
ing extreme arguments.” Stern
said the religious exemption to
Title IX isn’t “blatantly, invid-
iously unconstitutional” and
thus the administration has no
choice but to defend it.
Regardless of the change ,
the legal matters at the crux of
the lawsuit remain the same.
At issue in Hunter v. the U.S.
Department of Education are
40 LGBTQ students at conser-
vative religious colleges and
universities who are suing the
government for its role in pro-
viding funding to schools with
discriminatory policies. The
schools say they have a First
Amendment right to promote
traditional religious beliefs
about sexuality and gender.
Southwick, the lead attorney in
the Hunter lawsuit, is a grad-
uate of George Fox Univer-
sity, according to a report by
the Portland Tribune. GFU is
a private Christian university
with multiple campuses in Or-
egon.
“The Plaintiffs seek safety
and justice for themselves
and for the countless sexual
and gender minority students
whose oppression, fueled by
government funding, and un-
restrained by government in-
tervention, persists with inju-
rious consequences to mind,
body and soul,” reads the
March suit . “The Department’s
inaction leaves students unpro-
tected from the harms of con-
version therapy, expulsion, de-
nial of housing and healthcare,
sexual and physical abuse and
harassment, as well as the less
visible, but no less damaging,
consequences of institutional-
ized shame, fear, anxiety and
loneliness.”
Billions in federal money for
things such as scholarships and
grants flow through the U.S.
Department of Education.
But the Council of Chris-
tian Colleges and Universities,
whose members include many
of the schools named, said in
a May motion that the Biden
administration couldn’t be
trusted to adequately defend
the schools’ beliefs, and “may
be openly hostile to them.” Its
motion asked to intervene and
be part of the case.
The Justice and Education
departments declined to com-
ment last week. However, in
a March blog item, Suzanne
Goldberg, acting assistant sec-
retary of the Education De-
partment’s Office for Civil
Rights, wrote in recognition
that LGBTQ students suffer
discrimination, harassment
and violence.
Shirley Hoogstra, president
of the Christian college coun-
cil, said Tuesday that while she
was relieved to see the admin-
istration say it wants to defend
religious exemptions, Christian
schools impacted by the case
should have a representative at
the table.
— Associated Press