Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 16:30:39 -0800 From: Jean Richter Subject: 1/31/2000 P.E.R.S.O.N. Project news 1. UK: English PM may allow free vote on Clause 28 2. CA: Students speak at GSA injunction hearing ======================================================== Reuters, January 25, 2000 UK may offer free vote on controversial gay law By Mike Peacock LONDON (Reuters) ­ British Prime Minister Tony Blair may let Labour party MPs vote according to conscience on a government plan to let schools be more positive about homosexuality, his spokesman said on Tuesday. Ferocious opposition to the repeal of a law that gay campaigners brand homophobic has taken the government aback, and threatened to spark a revolt in the upper house, the House of Lords. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] * The Rt Rev James Jones is the Anglican Bishop of Liverpool. ================================================================================ Los Angeles Times, January 25, 2000 Times Mirror Square, Los Angeles, CA, 90053 (Fax 213-237-7679 or 213-237-5319 ) (E-MAIL: letters@latimes.com ) ( http://www.latimes.com ) Students Testify on Gay Club They explain to a federal judge why their organization, banned by the Orange Unified School District, should be allowed at El Modena High. By KATE FOLMAR, Times Staff Writer Two high school students testified in federal court in Santa Ana on Monday that renaming a support group for gay teens a "tolerance club" would belittle its mission and that prohibiting club members from discussing sex or sexuality implies that homosexuals are more promiscuous than others. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] =============================================================================== 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/