Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 16:40:52 -0700 From: Jean Richter Subject: 5/4/2000 P.E.R.S.O.N. Project news 1. MA: More on accused harassers of girls perceived as lesbians 2. Canada: Conservative Christian college may lose teach accreditation 3. NE: District may still change anti-bias language 4. Religious groups arrayed on both sides of Boy Scout court case ============================================================================= BOSTON GLOBE, April 25, 2000 Box 2378, Boston, MA, 02107 (Fax 617-929-2098 ) (E-MAIL: letter@globe.com ) ( http://www.boston.com/globe ) Harassment preceded attack on T By Francie Latour, Globe Staff Three months after a Moroccan girl was attacked on an MBTA train, allegedly by classmates who thought she was gay, the state Attorney General's office yesterday said the 16-year-old was one of three Moroccan teens at Boston High School subjected to repeated harassment months before the incident on the T. A fourth Moroccan girl ''was so terrified'' by the harassment ­ triggered when the girls followed a tradition of hand-holding customary in their homeland ­ that she returned to Morocco just six months after she had come to the United States to study. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] ================================================================================= WASHINGTON POST, April 25, 2000 1150 15th Street NW, Washington, DC, 20071 (Online Mailer: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/edit/letters/letterform.htm ) A Fundamentalist Question Canada Court to Decide if Evangelical School Can Train Teachers By Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post Foreign Service LANGLEY, B.C. ­ On this final day of classes, 600 students are jammed into the university gymnasium, rockin' to a truly awesome student band. They are dressed in the predictable range of jeans and cargo pants, T-shirts and baseball caps, with piercings and bleach-streaked hair. Couples near the back hold hands and nuzzle. Only the words to the songs projected on the big screen ­ refrains about loving the Lord and finding "The Way" ­ reveal that this is Trinity Western University, where Christian students pledge not to engage in a long list of sins, including cheating, drinking, smoking, gambling, dancing and premarital or homosexual sex. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] ================================================================================ Omaha World-Herald, April 25, 2000 World Herald Square, Omaha, NE, 68102 (Fax 402-345-4547 ) (E-MAIL: pulse@owh.com ) ( http://www.omaha.com/OWH ) Millard Anti-Bias Code May Add Gays By Paul Goodsell, World-Herald Staff Writer Millard school officials haven't ruled out the possibility that they will expand the district's nondiscrimination policy to specifically include gay and lesbian students. Linda Poole, school board president, said Monday night that the board has asked the district's attorney to study the potential impact of an expanded policy. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] In other action . . . [cut] * World-Herald staff writer Christine Laue contributed to this report. ================================================================================ Dallas Morning News, April 25, 2000 Box 655237, Dallas, TX, 75265 (Fax 972-263-0456 ) (E-Mail: letterstoeditor@dallasnews.com ) ( http://www.dallasnews.com ) Coalition lobbies against gay scoutmasters Religious groups file joint legal brief as justices prepare to review NJ case Religion News Service WASHINGTON ­ A coalition of religious groups from Roman Catholics to Orthodox Jews to Mormons to Southern Baptists has sent a clear message to the Supreme Court: Don't force the Boy Scouts of America to accept gays as scoutmasters. When the justices convene Wednesday to review a New Jersey Supreme Court ruling that said the Boy Scouts cannot ban gays and lesbians, the legal arguments will center on questions dealing with civil rights and freedom of speech and association. [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/