Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 17:26:00 -0700 From: Jean Richter Subject: 9/13/99 P.E.R.S.O.N. Project news 1. Oppose the unconstitutional Juvenile Justice Crime Bill 2. CA: Urge Governor Davis to support AB 537 3. NY: Commentary on news articles on in-school harassment ====================================================================== [please contact your legislators to oppose this unconstitutional and restrictive bill!] Reply-To: listserver@channelq.com Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 22:11:08 -0700 From: "Channel Q" To: qnews@channelq.com Subject: Opposition Research: AFA Pushes Trojan Horse Bill, Designed to Control What Minors can Learn AFA ACTION ALERT 9/12/99 American Family Association <>< Dr. Donald E. Wildmon, President Tim Wildmon, Vice President P.O. Drawer 2440 Tupelo, Mississippi 38803 Telephone 601/844-5036 URL's http://www.afa.net http://www.afr.net http://www.afo.net +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Read the September AFA Journal online: http://www.afajournal.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++ SUPPORT THE JUVENILE JUSTICE CRIME BILL [ Access the online version of this ALERT: http://www.afa.net/alert/aa990910.htm ] The House and the Senate have passed their versions of Juvenile Justice Crime Bill. Both versions of the bill will be merged together and their differences reconciled by a House/Senate Conference Committee in September. AFA supports several provisions contained within the House version which are listed below. Please contact your representatives in the House and Senate and urge them to support these provisions. Please call your members of Congress toll free at 888-449-3511. Simply ask to be connected with your Representative when the switchboard answers. The direct number for the U.S. House switchboard is 202-225-3121 and the direct number for the U.S. Senate switchboard is 202-224-3121. You may send e-mail to your Representative by pointing your browser to www.house.gov/writerep/ or your Senator by pointing your browser to http://www.senate.gov/contacting/index_by_state.cfm . Also listed below, are the members of the House and Senate who are on the Conference Committee and will make these decisions. If you are represented by one of them, please be sure to call. HOUSE PROVISIONS TO SUPPORT IN CONFERENCE COMMITTEE PICKERING/FRANKS - This amendment requires schools and Amendment libraries, which receive federal funds, to install filtering or blocking software on their computers to filter out obscenity, child pornography, and other material deemed harmful to minors. ADERHOLT - This amendment permits states to publicly display the Ten Commandments in schools and public buildings. DEMINT - This amendment protects student freedom of religious expression by requiring parties to any lawsuit challenging a student's right to religious expression in schools to pay their own legal bills. Current law requires defendants who lose to pay the plaintiff's (often the ACLU) legal bills. CANADY - This amendment raises the age of "minors" from 16 to 18 in federal law, which prohibits the sale of obscene material to minors. MEMBERS OF THE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Bob Barr (R-GA, 7th) U.S. House of Representatives, 1207 Longworth House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Phone:(202) 225-2931 Fax (202) 225-2944 E-mail: http://www.house.gov/barr/guestlog.htm#Name Howard L. Berman (D-CA, 26th) U.S. House of Representatives, 2330 Rayburn H.O.B Washington, D.C. 20515 Phone (202) 225-4695 Tom Bliley (R-VA, 7th) U. S. House of Representatives, 2409 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Phone (202)225-2815 Charles T. Canady (R-FL, 12th) U.S. House of Representatives,2432 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Phone (202) 225-1252 E-mail: mailto:Rep.Charles.Canady@mail.house.gov Michael N. Castle (R-DE, 1st) U.S. House of Representatives, 1227 Longworth, Washington, D.C., 20515 Phone (202)225-4165 E-mail: mailto:delaware@mail.house.gov William L. Clay (R-MO, 1st) U.S. House of Representatives, 2306 Rayburn H.O.B. Washington, D.C. 20515 (202) 225-2406 Howard Coble (R-NC, 6th) U.S. House of Representatives, 2468 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Phone: 202-225-3065 Fax: 202-225-8611, E-mail: mailto:howard.coble@mail.house.gov John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI, 14th) U.S. House of Representatives, 2426 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Ph: 202-225-5126 Fax: 202-225-0072, E-mail: mailto:John.Conyers@mail.house.gov Jim DeMint, (R-SC, 4th) U.S. House of Representatives, 507 Cannon HOB Washington, DC 20515 Phone: 202-225-6030 John D. Dingell (D-MI, 16th) U.S. House of Representatives, Room 2328 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515-2216 Phone (202) 225-407 Barney Frank (R-MA, 4th) U.S. House of Representatives, 2210 Rayburn H.O.B. Washington, DC 20515-2104 Phone(202) 225-5931 George W. Gekas (R-PA, 17th) U.S. House of Representatives, 2410 Rayburn H.O.B., Washington, DC 20515-2104 Phone (202)225-4315 William F. Goodling (R-PA, 19th) U.S. House of Representatives, 2263 Rayburn House Office Bldg. Phone: (202) 225-5836 Fax: (202) 226-1000 Jim Greenwood (R- PA, 19th) U.S. House of Representatives, 2410 Rayburn House Office Bldg. Phone: (202) 225-4315 Fax: (202) 225-8440 Henry J. Hyde (R-IL, 6th) U.S. House of Representatives, 2110 Rayburn House Office Bldg. Phone: (202) 225-4561 Fax: (202) 225-1166 Dale E. Kildee (D-MI, 9th) U.S. House of Representatives, 2187 Rayburn House Office Bldg. Phone: (202) 225-3611 Fax: (202) 225-6393 E-mail: mailto:dkildee@hr.house.gov Zoe Lofgren (D-CA, 16th) U.S. House of Representatives, 318 Cannon House Office Bldg. Phone: (202) 225-3072 Fax: (202) 225-3336 E-mail: mailto:zoegram@hr.house.gov Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY, 4th) U.S. House of Representatives, 1725 Longworth House Office Bldg. Phone: (202) 225-5516 Fax: (202) 225-5758 Bill McCollum (R-FL, 8th) U.S. House of Representatives, 2266 Rayburn House Office Bldg. Phone: (202) 225-2176 Fax: (202) 225-0999 Thomas E. Petri (R-WI, 6th) U.S. House of Representatives, 2262 Rayburn House Office Bldg. Phone: (202) 225-2476 Fax: (202) 225-2356 E-mail: mailto:tompetri@mail.house.gov Robert C. Scott (D-VA, 3rd) U.S. House of Representatives, 2464 Rayburn House Office Bldg. Phone: (202) 225-8351 Fax: (202) 225-8354 Lamar Smith (R-TX, 21st) U.S. House of Representatives, 2231 Rayburn House Office Bldg. Phone: (202) 225-4236 Fax: (202) 225-8628 E-mail: mailto:lamars@hr.house.gov Jeff Sessions (R-AL) United States Senate, 495 Senate Russell Office Bldg. Phone: (202) 224-4124 Fax: (202) 224-3149 E-mail: mailto:senator@sessions.senate.gov Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) United States Senate, 315 Senate Russell Office Bldg. Phone: (202) 224-4543 E-mail: mailto:senator@kennedy.senate.gov Strom Thurmond (R-SC) United States Senate, 217 Senate Russell Office Bldg. Phone: (202) 224-5972 Fax: (202) 224-1300 E-mail: mailto:senator@thurmond.senate.gov Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT) United States Senate, 131 Senate Russell Office Bldg. Phone: (202) 224-5251 Fax: E-mail: mailto:senator_hatch@hatch.senate.gov Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT) United States Senate, 433 Senate Russell Office Bldg. 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Some messages may be from anti-gay organizations and are forwarded as opposition research. ================================================================================ From: webmaster@pfaw.org Subject: ALERT: Support California Gay Rights Bills Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 18:07:01 -0400 (EDT) ====================================================================== ACTIVIST NETWORK -- People For the American Way Alert Date: September 13, 1999 -- Circulate Until: October 13, 1999 Support Gay Rights Bills in California ______________________________________________________________________ In this Alert (1) Victory for Equal Rights in the Legislature! (2) Background Information on AB 26, AB 537, and AB 1001 (3) What You Can Do - Urge Gov. Davis to Sign These Bills! (4) About Us / Subscription Information (5) Please Support Our Efforts ______________________________________________________________________ (1) VICTORY FOR EQUAL RIGHTS IN THE LEGISLATURE! 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Davis and encourage him to sign these important bills. ______________________________________________________________________ (2) BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON AB 26, AB 537, AND AB 1001 Assembly Bill 26: would provide a statewide registry for same-sex couples and allow state and local government employers to provide health insurance to the same-sex partners of public employees, just as coverage is provided for employees' spouses. Assembly Bill 537: would add "sexual orientation" to the already existing anti-discrimination provisions of the CA Education Code. Those provisions currently ban discrimination against students and teachers on the basis of a host of factors including race, sex, and ethnicity. 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John Kettlewell CSS-NYS, Education and Religion Consultant/Speaker Last Sunday's New York Times (8/22/99) focused with several articles on exactly our issue--though not playing up the aspect of the harassment of gay kids--but implying it strongly. Quotes from the articles: "The vast majority of kids from middle school up are bullied by their peers...... The shaming of boys is sex-based.. An average high-school student...hears 25 antigay slurs a day." The title of that article is "The Outsiders--How the picked-on cope--or don't." A kid says, "I didn't like myself because I didn't have anything, no athletics, no grades. The only thing that kept me going, was that I hated them more than I hated myself." One boy says that in a routine day, he gets body-slammed and shoved into chalkboards and dropped into trash cans headfirst. "One day I'll be a 'faggot,' the next day I'll be a 'retard,." Another article, "The Bully in the Mirror," describes how a masculine body image (and general image) is far more important for boys now than it ever was--with all the ads and things for adolescents showing heavily muscled, macho types; and life is hell for kids who don't project that image, and many kids are driven to compulsively work out to build up that image so they won't be harassed. The articles refer often to Littleton and the other killings, clearly connecting the violence to the harassment of the kids who did the killing--the whole purpose of my presentation to the Gov.'s Task Force on School Violence. I hope the members of the Task Force read the Sunday Times articles -- maybe we should make sure they get copies of the articles. Because, out of all the testimony they heard, I was the only one to address this specific issue. If they saw the articles they would realize that the emphasis of my presentation represented the thinking of many experts. The articles also make our point that all the metal detectors and surveillance cameras and rules prohibiting back-packs, etc. don't really make kids safe--the many kids for whom school is a nightmare. There are too many boys in schools driven to irrational rage because of the way they're treated. The editor in an introductory article even tells how he was once driven to such rage he could imagine killing someone. Unless anyone missed the connections, the same issue includes an interview with the Boy Scout leader who was dismissed and then sued. The magazine focuses on our broader concerns--implying that kids with a difference are brutally persecuted in schools and that's why they're mad. (Complete articles can be found at The New York Times on the Web http://www.nyt.com/ using "archives" or "search" find articles "The Outsiders--How the picked-on cope--or don't." and "The Bully in the Mirror") ================================================================================ Jean Richter -- richter@eecs.berkeley.edu The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project (Public Education Regarding Sexual Orientation Nationally) These messages are archived by state on our information-loaded free web site: http://www.youth.org/loco/PERSONProject/