Jan-4-95 (SENATE) SENATE Note: This document is the unofficial version of the Congressional Record. The printed Congressional Record produced by the Government Printing Office is the only official version. PART CONGRESSIONAL RECORD (SENATE) DATE January 4, 1995 TITLE SENATE TEXT BY MR. HELMS: S. 25. A bill to stop the waste of taxpayer funds on activities by Government agencies to encourage its employees or officials to accept homosexuality as a legitimate or normal lifestyle; read the first time. ENDING TAXPAYER SUPPORT FOR HOMOSEXUAL AGENDAS IN THE FEDERAL WORKPLACE Mr. HELMS. Mr. President, the American people declared on November 8, that there`s more government running their lives than is either wanted or needed - and certainly more wasteful government than the American people should be forced to pay for. And Congress, for a half century, has been wasting billions of dollars, running up a Federal debt of $4.8 trillion. As a matter of fact, the exact Federal debt as of the close of business on December 30 was $4,800,149,946,143. I know of no American who favors adding to this horrendous Federal debt - some, of course, don`t care as long as the Federal Government continues to conduct seminars, fund programs - or hire staff for the purpose of persuading, indeed, intimidating - Federal employees to accept homosexuality as a legitimate and normal lifestyle. But that is precisely how so much of the taxpayer`s money is being used at numerous Federal agencies including the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Transportation, and the Department of Defense. Here are just a few examples of how the taxpayer`s money is being spent: On March 25, 1994, the USDA officially sanctioned GLOBE - The Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Employee Organization, thus allowing USDA time, money, and resources to be used to promote GLOBE`s agenda. I might add, GLOBE chapters exist in many Federal agencies. The Department of Agriculture went further when they created a Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Program Manager position within the Foreign Agriculture Service. The Family Research Council reports that on September 8, 1994, the Clinton administration, under the auspices of the U.S. Navy, hosted pro-gay and anti-religious diversity training for civilian and military Federal employees. The costs of Diversity Day `94, as it was named, included: The pay for hundreds of Federal employees, speakers fees, use of leased space, transportation, live diversity entertainment, Diversity Day `94 trinkets, video and equipment rental costs, and reproduction of printed material. For Senators who may not have been in the Chamber when the text of the bill was read by the clerk, let me read it again for the Record: No funds appropriated out of the Treasury of the United States may be used by any entity to fund, promote, or carry out any seminar or program for employees of the Government, or to fund any position in the Government, the purpose of which is to compel, instruct, encourage, urge, or persuade employees or officials to - (1) recruit, on the basis of sexual orientation, homosexuals for employment with the Government; or (2) embrace, accept, condone, or celebrate homosexuality as a legitimate or normal lifestyle. This legislation is similar to an amendment offered by this Senator to the 1995 Agriculture Appropriations bill. Although the amendment was adopted by the Senate by a vote of 92 to 8, it was subsequently dropped in conference. That amendment applied to only the Department of Agriculture. The legislation I introduce today applies to USDA and to all other agencies of the Federal Government. That, Mr. President, is the only difference. I wish this legislation was not necessary. But it is and it is a sad day for America because of it. You see, the Clinton administration has conducted a concerted effort to give homosexual rights, privileges, and protections throughout the Federal agencies - to extend the homosexuals special rights in the Federal workplace, rights not accorded to most other groups and individuals. No other group in America is given special rights based on their sexual preferences. So, I urge Senators members to consider this bill in light of the mandate given by the American people regarding wasteful government spending. But I also ask them to consider it in light of whether it is proper for the Federal Government to use tax dollars to promote, ratify, and protect a lifestyle that most Americans, and most religions, consider a sexual and moral perversion. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill and the Family Research Council article titled `Federal Government Promotes Homosexuality Using `Diversity` Cover` be included in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 25 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. LIMITATION ON USE OF APPROPRIATED FUNDS. No funds appropriated out of the Treasury of the United States may be used by any entity to fund, promote, or carry out any seminar or program for employees of the Government, or to fund any position in the Government, the purpose of which is to compel, instruct, encourage, urge, or persuade employees or officials to - (1) recruit, on the basis of sexual orientation, homosexuals for employment with the Government; or (2) embrace, accept, condone, or celebrate homosexuality as a legitimate or normal lifestyle. -------------------- FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PROMOTES HOMOSEXUALITY USING `DIVERSITY` COVER (BY ROBERT L. MAGINNIS) The federal government is using taxpayer money to promote homosexuality as the moral equivalent to heterosexuality. This is happening under the guise of diversity and it links virtually every aspect of government to the homosexual agenda. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT GRANTS HOMOSEXUALS OFFICIAL STATUS During the first two years of the Clinton Administration, most federal agencies have amended their equal employment opportunity and civil rights policies to include the term `sexual orientation.` These changes are not justified by law. For example, Carol Browner, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, sent a memo to all EPA employees on October 14, 1994 stating, `Today, the EPA joins the growing list of public and private sector employers which have added `sexual orientation` to our equal employment opportunity policy.` (FOOTNOTE 1) (FOOTNOTE 1) Footnotes at end of article. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros did the same in August, 1994 with a memo that states, `Sexual harassment and discrimination based on sexual orientation are unacceptable in the workplace and will not be condoned at HUD.` (FOOTNOTE 2) Department of Transportation Secretary Federico Pena published his statement in 1993 which declares, `(N)o one be denied opportunities because of his or her race, color, religion, sex. . or sexual orientation.` (FOOTNOTE 3) The Federal Bureau of Investigation joined the chorus when director Louis Freeh stressed that `homosexual conduct is not per se misconduct` and adopted a new policy to admit homosexuals to the ranks of the Bureau. (FOOTNOTE 4) Several homosexuals are now being trained to become FBI agents. Freeh`s boss, Attorney General Janet Reno, declared that the Department of Justice will not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation when conducting security clearances. (FOOTNOTE 5) Although homosexuality has long been a marker for homosexual misconduct, Reno removed any reference to sexual orientation from application forms. Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA), an openly homosexual man, stated, `The clear implication is that, outside the uniformed military services, being gay will not be a relevant factor.` (FOOTNOTE 6) Moreover, Reno ruled that a foreigner who claimed that he was persecuted by his government for being homosexual may be eligible to immigrate to the U.S. (FOOTNOTE 7) In 1994 the Attorney General waived immigration laws so that avowed HIV-infected homosexuals could participate in New York`s `Gay-Olympics.` (FOOTNOTE 8) This official recognition of homosexuals is taking place without legislative action. Indeed, there are no laws requiring these changes, and little chance that such laws could be passed. Homosexuals are being awarded a special class status solely based on behavior, not on a benign characteristic like race or gender. The Administration`s official recognition goes further. Office of Personnel Management Director James King sent a memo to all OPM employees in January, 1994 announcing the formal recognition of the Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Employees (GLOBE) as a professional association. This recognition bestows on GLOBE the same privileges extended to other associations. For example, GLOBE can now use government facilities communication systems, bulletin boards, and have official representation at personnel meetings. (FOOTNOTE 9) GLOBE`s stated purpose is to `promote understanding of issues affecting gay, lesbian and bisexual employees; provide outreach to the gay, lesbian and bisexual community; serve as a resource group to the Secretary on issues of concern to gay, lesbian and bisexual employees; work for the creation of diverse work force that assures respect and civil rights for gay, lesbian and bisexual employees; and create a forum for the concerns of the gay, lesbian and bisexual community.` (FOOTNOTE 10) There are more than 40 chapters throughout the federal government. (FOOTNOTE 11) The Department of Transportation GLOBE chapter earned some notoriety when posters depicting famous people alleged to be homosexual were displayed on bulletin boards. The posters were made at government expense and identified Eleanor Roosevelt, Virginia Woolf, Errol Flynn, and Walt Whitman as homosexuals. (FOOTNOTE 12) Federal Aviation Administration employee Anthony Venchieri complained when he received a DOT voice mail message inviting him to `celebrate with us the diversity of the gay and lesbian community.` The message was broadcast to all 4,100 DOT voice-mail users. He was removed from the system after complaining but was later reinstated. FAA`s Office of Civil Rights spokesman stated, `The Department of Transportation has officially recognized the organization (GLOBE). . . . The FAA complies with this recognition of an employee association which contributes to employee welfare and morale and assists in fostering a climate of diversity and inclusion.` (FOOTNOTE 13) GLOBE also uses government facilities to promote homosexuality. During June 1994, many federal agencies permit GLOBE chapter to use space to host homosexual programs. For example, DOT hosted six events in the Washington headquarters. Those included: a panel of DOT officials discussing diversity; a presentation by Parent, Friends and Families of Lesbians and Gays; and a program on the gay and lesbian Asian Pacific American community. (FOOTNOTE 14) THE DIVERSITY AGENDA `Diversity` is a vogue concept that is being used to advance the homosexual agenda. (FOOTNOTE 15) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has embraced diversity. In a July 1994 memo entitled, `Stepping Stones to Diversity: An Action Plan,` the service proclaims that `Managing diversity needs to be a top service priority. . . . The service must also recognize that the differences among people are important.` (FOOTNOTE 16) DOT`s Secretary Pena left no doubt about what he means by diversity. In a policy statement he defines it as `inclusion - hiring developing promoting and retaining employees of all races ethnic groups, sexual orientations, and cultural backgrounds. . . .` (FOOTNOTE 17) The Department of Agriculture joined the diversity movement in March 1994 by establishing a GLOBE chapter. (FOOTNOTE 18) A report in The Sacramento Valley Mirror shows just what the Department of Agriculture and, more specifically, a subordinate organization, the Forest Service, means by diversity. (FOOTNOTE 19) According to that article, diversity means a redefinition of family promoting gay pride month, and encouraging the use of federal resource to promote homosexual causes. A letter from Region 5 Forester Ronald E. Stewart to his employees outlines Forest Service recommendations concerning homosexuals. Stewart`s memo to `All Region 5 Employees` says, `We can not allow our personal beliefs to be transformed into behaviors that would discriminate against another employee.` (FOOTNOTE 20) The recommended policy: Prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation. Empowers homosexuals to serve as mentors and network coordinators. Incorporates sexual orientation awareness training. Establishes a computerized network for isolated homosexual employees. Awards pro-gay work settings. Encourages local `multicultural awareness celebrations` like gay pride month. Directs supervisors to consider an employee`s domestic partner when assigning schedules. Prohibits private permitters and concessionaires from discriminating against domestic partners. Mandates unions to become proactive in the `sexual diversity` movement. Requires that contracts include domestic partner services. Guarantees government child care for children of an employee`s domestic partner. Considers gay and lesbian owned businesses when arranging local purchase agreements. The proposals encourage Forest Service employees to lobby for the following. Amend federal travel regulations to incorporate the needs of domestic partners. Adopt this definition of a family. `A unit of interdependent and interacting persons, related together over time by strong social and emotional bonds and/or by ties of marriage, birth, and adoption, whose central purpose is to create, maintain, and promote the social, mental, physical and emotional development and well being of each of its members.` Advocate to the Small Business Administration the inclusion of gay and lesbian owned businesses eligible for minority set-aside contracts. Advocate that retirement benefits include domestic partners. Add non-discrimination provisions to all private sector contracts prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation except for bona fide religions and youth groups. DIVERSITY TRAINING MANDATORY Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Katherine Abraham, whose performance agreement with Secretary of Labor Robert Reich includes diversity training, hosted three-hour diversity training sessions for BLS employees. The paid guest speaker began each session by stating, `Diversity means our national survival.` (FOOTNOTE 21) He closed the session by reading a letter from homosexual BLS employees complaining about discrimination. The guest concluded, `What`s necessary in the workplace is for everybody to have the attitude that people are not good, not bad, just different.` (FOOTNOTE 22) The U.S. Postal Service is also promoting diversity. During a November 1, 1994 diversity seminar a guest psychologist suggested `aggressive recruitment is needed; develop, attract and retain members from under-represented groups.` His speech followed legal S 219 counsel`s presentation on the new non-discrimination policy for gays, lesbians, and bisexuals. (FOOTNOTE 23) The Forest Service has a training booklet entitled, `Valuing Diversity.` Inside the booklet are statements such as: `Fact: Psychological and social influences alone cannot cause homosexuality. . . . Fact: A biological (genetic, hormonal, neurological, other) predisposition toward homosexual, bisexual, or heterosexual orientation is present at birth in all boys and girls.` No source for these `facts` is provided, nor could there be. (FOOTNOTE 24) So-called genetic studies on homosexuality are flawed and conducted by homosexual activists. The U.S. Health and Human Services sponsored a `Multi-Culture Day` in Dallas, Texas in April, 1994. An HHS employee gained official permission to man an exhibit, `Highlighting Our Gay and Lesbian Culture.` (FOOTNOTE 25) Four federal agencies hosted a `Global Diversity Day` on May 25, 1994 at San Francisco`s U.S. Customs House. The activities were attended by 300 federal employees and included displays by gay, lesbian, and bisexual representatives. On display were a rainbow flag that was flown at the 1993 March on Washington, posters displaying famous homosexuals, and cultural items such as books and GLOBE applications. (FOOTNOTE 26) Possibly the largest diversity event was hosted by the U.S. Navy on September 8, 1994 near the Pentagon. Diversity Day `94 included an opening ceremony with a welcome by a three-star admiral who stated, `The federal and private sector must make diversity part of business.` (FOOTNOTE 27) He also said that the work environment `is not a matter for moral issues.` (FOOTNOTE 28) The government`s guest speaker was diversity expert and professor at Northeastern Illinois University Dr. Samuel Betances. He equated racism, sexism, and homophobia and then stated, `We can start all over if need be.` (FOOTNOTE 29) He explained that former Alabama Governor George Wallace, a one-time racist, started over by recanting his racist beliefs. Betances encouraged homosexuals to organize `to get respect` much like women, blacks, and Latinos organized. (FOOTNOTE 30) He emphasized that all of us `must be prepared to unlearn` old ways. He observed that homosexuals are `part of the diversity equation whether we like it or not` and they `need a climate of respect.` (FOOTNOTE 31) The activities included a seminar entitled `Another Color of the Rainbow: Sexual Minorities in the Workplace` taught by an acknowledged lesbian, and a videotape, `On Being Gay,` which promotes homosexuality as the moral equivalent to heterosexuality. The U.S. Air Force Academy already has a diversity day scheduled for April 1995. The symposium is entitled, `Strength Through Diversity Leadership Symposium.` Conference director Colonel David Wagie says that his program will not include `sexual orientation` issues. He explained. `We are interested only in using the term as officially defined and used by DOD.` (FOOTNOTE 32) The Navy, however, is cruising toward sexual diversity. Secretary of the Navy John Dalton wrote the following in his diversity policy statement on May 23, 1994: `Our continued success requires that each civilian employee and applicant be afforded the opportunity to excel without regard to his or her race, color, gender, sexual orientation. . . .` (FOOTNOTE 33) AIDS AWARENESS OR MORE DIVERSITY TRAINING? President Clinton announced on September 30, 1993 to all heads of executive departments his HIV/AIDS policy. The policy requires each secretary to designate a senior staff member to implement HIV/AIDS education and prevention programs and to develop workplace policies for employees with HIV/AIDS. The training has received a mixed review. Federal employees have called the Family Research Council to complain that they found the training offensive. Two supervisors and 41 employees in the Federal Communication Commission`s audio services division chose not to attend mandatory `AIDS Awareness Training.` An FCC employee stated, `The classes are basically an adult versions of high school sex ed, with the modern-day sensitivity training thrown in.` (FOOTNOTE 34) The training includes a brief history of HIV, symptoms and prevention and risk reduction. There is a discussion of needle sharing and sexual contact. Federal employees are told to reduce their HIV contraction risk by practicing `safer sex` by using barriers like condoms, dental dams, plastic wrap, and latex gloves. The manual states, `A dental dam (a small, square piece of latex) or plastic may be used for any oral-vaginal or oral-anal contact. All types of barriers (condoms, dental dams, and plastic wrap) are effective aganist HIV transmission only if they are used correctly and consistently from start to finish.` (FOOTNOTE 36) The training materials are based on government `evidence` and the materials espouse confidence in latex which is not supported by research. For example, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention misrepresent a wealth of conflicting scientific evidence. The CDC does a disservice to the American public when it promotes condoms as a responsible prevention strategy. CDC places its hopes on the correct and consistent use of condoms, an unreached and unreachable goal.` (FOOTNOTE 37) The Energy Department makes a disclaimer: `HIV is transmitted without regard to gender, age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, or identification with any group. For this reason, we avoid referring to `high risk groups.` ` Not identifying `high risk groups, is irresponsible. The HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report shows that at least 87 percent of HIV victims either contracted the virus from homosexual encounters or by sharing needles. Probably the most outrageous example of government sponsored AIDS training was done for the Forest Service. It took place in the Forest Service`s Tahoe Region on May 6, 1994 and was conducted by a She indicated that this figure includes salaries. This information comes from a telephone conversation between Ms. Anderson and FRC researcher Craig Gottlieb on December 1, 1993. Ms. Anderson followed their conversation with a fax transmission on December 2d which states, `The budget figured I gave you for Dr. Hamer`s study is total including staff salaries.` Dr. Magnuson indicated that the salaries for research salaries are not part of Hamer`s research budget. (FOOTNOTE 50) Conversation between Linda Anderson, NCI`s press office and Craig Gottlieb on December 1, 1993. (FOOTNOTE 51) NCI Press Release entitled `New Study Finds Genetic Link to Homosexuality,` July 15, 1993. This information is taken from Dr. Hamer`s answer to question 9: `Why was the research supported by the National Cancer Institute? (FOOTNOTE 52) `National Cancer Institute Scandal: Gay Rights Instead of Cancer Research,` Family Research Report, September-October, 1993, p. 6. (FOOTNOTE 53) Telephone Deposition of Dean Hamer, taken October 11, 1993 in case of Richard G. Evans, et al., v. Roy Romer, et al., District Court, City and County of Denver, State of Colorado, Case No. 92-CV-7223, Courtroom 19, p. 70. A search of NIH Library`s files on Dr. Hamer reveals 71 postings for published studies. The `gay-gene` study was the first of its kind for Dr. Hamer. (FOOTNOTE 54) Brian McCormick, `Researchers, Doctors Press for Gay Office at NIH,` American Medical News, September 13, 1993. p. 10. (FOOTNOTE 55) Interview of Victoria L. Magnuson, NCI`s Biochemistry Laboratory, Building 37, NIH, December 8, 1993. The interview was conducted by FRC research assistant Craig Gottlieb, a Cornell University student. (FOOTNOTE 56) `Media Spike `Gay Gene` Researcher`s Homosexuality,` Lambda Report, October 1993, p. 12. (FOOTNOTE 57) The Washington Times, September 8, 1994, p. A-6. (FOOTNOTE 58) Joyce Price, `Elders Calls Gay Sex `Wonderful,` `Healthy,` ` The Washington Times, March 19, 1994. S 221 (FOOTNOTE 59) Joyce Price, `Lesbian Nominee`s Foes Light Up Senate Phones,` The Washington Times, May 21, 1993, p. A-3. (FOOTNOTE 60) Ibid. (FOOTNOTE 61) `Certification of the Mandatory Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Employment (EEO/AE), Cultural Diversity Critical Element and Performance Standards for Managers and Supervisors,` U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, January 13, 1994, signed by Roberta Achtenberg, Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity and Marilynn A. Davis, Assistant Secretary for Administration. (FOOTNOTE 62) `Announcement Soliciting Applications: Gay, Lesbian and Bi-Sexual Program Manager (Collateral Duty Assignment), Foreign Agriculture Service, not dated. (FOOTNOTE 63) Ruth Larson, `Employees To Be Graded On Support For Diversity,` The Washington Times, December 2, 1993, p. A-7. (FOOTNOTE 64) Max Boot, `A Different Kind of Whistle-Blower,` The Wall Street Journal, April 27, 1994. (FOOTNOTE 65) Ibid.