Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 13:25:18 -0800 (PST) From: Franklin Weston Subject: PFAW's Oct/Nov Anti-Gay Leg. & Init. Rep (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 16:05:42 -0500 From: Sonya Schwartz Subject: PFAW's Oct/Nov Anti-Gay Leg. & Init. Rep PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY STATE & LOCAL ANTI-GAY INITIATIVES & LEGISLATION REPORT OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1996 This is not a comprehensive report of all the anti-gay bills introduced or = laws passed around the country, but rather a sample of the range of anti-ga= y activities taking place and a source of selected information and contacts= . To learn more about anti-gay activity covered in this report or to inform= us of other local or state anti-gay activity, please contact Sonya Schwart= z at (202) 467-2338 or at sschwartz@pfaw.org. This report is also available= via electronic mail. To find out more about People For the American Way, = visit our website at http://www.pfaw.org. =95 Anti-gay activity continues around the nation at the federal, state and= local levels. Anti-gay provisions were included in several bills at the e= nd of the 104th Congress. States have continued to push ahead with bills = prohibiting same sex marriages, and a variety of anti-gay legislative effor= ts have been pushed at the local level. Meanwhile, gay rights* supporters = are still weighing the election*s effect on anti-gay activity. House Resolu= tion 3610, the Omnibus Appropriations Bill for 1997, included a provision t= hat would ban federal grants and contracts to schools that oppose Reserve O= fficers Training Corps (ROTC) or military recruiters. Schools have typical= ly been opposed to ROTC and military recruitment because of the government*= s *don*t ask, don*t tell* policy on gays in the military. A Pentagon offic= ial said that the Defense Department currently considers seven schools to b= e anti-ROTC and 17 more to be against recruitment. The House and Senate bo= th passed H.R.3610 and it was sent to the President for signature. It becam= e Public Law 104-208. =95 Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) introduced H.R .2202, which sought to= limit spending on the welfare of immigrants, including health care spendin= g that would affect immigrants with HIV and AIDS. While the bill would have= allowed for both testing and treatment of other diseases, it would have on= ly allowed testing for HIV. Immigrants with AIDS would also have suffered = from a provision that would deport anyone without full citizenship status w= ho accepted more than one year of public benefits based on need. The bill = would have also made it more difficult for gay men and lesbians -- who have= become recognized, under the Clinton administration, as an oppressed group= subject to persecution -- seeking political asylum to enter the United Sta= tes. House Resolution 2202 passed the U.S. House of Representatives at the = end of the 104th Congress. The Senate did not vote on the bill. =95 The 1997 National Defense Authorization bill, H.R. 3230, was amended in= the House of Representatives to include language that would ban gay men an= d lesbians from serving in the United States Armed Forces and would forcibl= y discharge HIV+ members of the service. The Senate version contained no s= uch language. While the legislation was in conference committee, these pro= visions were removed from the bill. The conference report passed both house= s, without the anti-gay language, and was signed into law on September 23, = 1996. =95 On October 21, the Supreme Court declined to hear Thomasson v. Perry, t= he first constitutional challenge to the *don*t ask, don*t tell* policy on = gays in the military. The action left standing the decision of a federal c= ourt that refused to reverse the discharge of a Navy Pilot after he announc= ed that he was gay. The Supreme Court*s action set no precedent at the Sup= reme Court level and does not prevent the justices from hearing a different= challenge to the policy in the future, and other cases are working their w= ay through the federal courts. =95 The Supreme Court refused to reinstate a $125,000 invasion of privacy a= ward in Doe vs. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority. The aw= ard was won in federal court and then lost in the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of= Appeals by a former Pennsylvania worker whose HIV-positive status was disc= losed to fellow employees. The chief administrative officer of his office = sought employee drug records from a pharmacy to monitor evidence of fraud o= r drug abuse. The man*s name was listed along with a prescription drug use= d to treat AIDS. The administrative officer and another agency official re= viewed the report, and showed it to the man*s direct supervisor. The AIDS-= related drugs had been highlighted. The appeals court ruled that the agenc= y*s need to monitor its drug plan outweighed the employee*s privacy interes= t. =95 Hawaii residents voted by a narrow margin to convene a state constituti= onal convention in which they could discuss passage of a state constitution= al amendment to outlaw same sex marriage in Hawaii. Baehr v. Miike, Hawaii= *s historic same sex marriage case, went to trial on September 10, closing = arguments were heard on September 20, amicus briefs have been filed, and a = decision is expected in December or January. In order for the state to prev= ail, and same sex marriage to be outlawed, Hawaii will have to show a *comp= elling state interest* for discrimination against same sex couples. If the= state should fail to meet this burden of proof, Hawaii may see a final cou= rt ruling, recognizing same sex couples* right to marry, by 1997. =95 In anticipation of the ruling on Baehr v. Miike, bills have been introd= uced in 36 states to prohibit same sex marriages, or the recognition of suc= h marriages performed in other states. Seventeen of those bills have died,= but 17 states have now passed such laws this year. Alaska, Arizona, Delaw= are, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, = Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota and Tennessee have joi= ned Utah, which enacted its law last year. A bill is pending in New Jersey= . The governors of Alabama and Mississippi have signed executive orders, a= nd ballot initiative petitions are circulating in Maine and Oregon. Hostile Climate 1995, People For the American Way*s 124-page annual re= port documenting 180 anti-gay incidents nationwide, is available from our W= ashington office for $10.95/copy for non-members and $9.95/copy for members= (sorry, pre-paid mail orders only). The next edition of Hostile Climate i= s in preparation and will be released early in 1997. If you have anti-gay = incidents to report, contact Sonya Schwartz at (202) 467-2338 or at sschwar= tz@pfaw.org. -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- ------------------------------------------------ CALIFORNIA On September 3, 4, and 5, hearings were held around the state of = California regarding a policy that would prohibit adoptions by unmarried co= uples. The Department of Social Services currently recommends against such= adoptions; however, such a policy was never formally adopted, and judges t= hroughout California granted thousands of adoptions by lesbian and gay coup= les, including mostly second-parent or *limited consent* adoptions. A spok= esman for the Wilson administration commented that adoptions by gays, lesbi= ans and single adults are *not in the best interests of society.* Critics c= laimed that he was primarily interested in blocking adoption by gay and les= bian couples. An agency spokesman argued that they wanted to preserve *the= sanctity of marriage.* The rule against adoptions by unmarried couples wo= uld go into effect in 1997 if approved by the state Health and Welfare Agen= cy.- Santa Clara Opponents of a domestic partner registry recently approved by San= ta Clara County Supervisors succeeded in collecting signatures to overturn = the vote through referendum. On October 29, the county registrar of voters = approved an estimated 50,734 signatures of the 59,462 signatures filed on S= eptember 18. If the county does not call a special election on the registr= y, the issue is likely to be placed on the next countywide ballot, schedule= d for June 1998. The registry*s opponents were funded by the Santa Clara = County Taxpayers* Association, which is concerned that the registry will be= the first step toward legal and financial benefits for domestic partners. = A pastor from the South Hills Community Church of San Jose, an opponent of= the registry, commented, *We really are determined not to do this with any= hostility to the gay and lesbian community...We are just trying to protect= marriage.* The registry would allow gay and unmarried heterosexual couples t= o declare their relationship; however, the registry awards none of the lega= l rights of marriage. Couples who live together could declare their partne= rship by paying a one-time fee of $26 to the county and agreeing to be join= tly responsible for shared living expenses. Legislative contact: L.A. Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center, = 1625 N. Schrader Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028; (213) 860-7358; Attn: Sky J= ohnson, Director of Public Policy & Communications. COLORADO Amendment 17 to the Colorado State Constitution, the Parental Rights A= mendment, which would have given parents the right to *to direct and contro= l the upbringing, education, values and discipline of their children* was d= efeated by voters on November 5. With the enormous financial and organizin= g support from Of The People (OTP), a Virginia-based conservative group wit= h Religious Right ties, proponents managed to collect the required signatur= es to qualify for November*s ballot. The initiative would have needlessly = pitted parents against parents, as well as against teachers and other child= care professionals, and would have led to an increase in costly litigation= . It would have provided the means for individuals to block sexuality and A= IDS education, discussion of gay and lesbian issues, and other curricula th= ey found objectionable not simply for their own children, but for other par= ents' children as well. =20 GEORGIA Atlanta Only days after Mayor Bill Campbell signed a measure to grant health i= nsurance and other benefits to domestic partners of city employees, opponen= ts filed a lawsuit challenging it as financially irresponsible and inconsis= tent with the state*s ban on same sex marriages. The ordinance was the seco= nd attempt in the last three years to extend some benefits to the partners = of city workers. A similar 1993 measure was never implemented and was over= turned by the Georgia Supreme Court last year on the grounds that domestic = partners can only be declared *a family* by the state legislature. The lan= guage of the new version is intended to preclude such challenges. A local = lawyer argued, *This ordinance is clearly oriented toward homosexual unions= , and the State of Georgia has recently gone on record that they are not in= terested in encouraging homosexual marriage.* The ordinance would apply to= both same sex and heterosexual partners. A spokesman for the mayor said, = *If there was going to be an onslaught of new people seeking benefits, it w= ould have happened by now. We think the fears of the fiscal impact are exa= ggerated, but more important, we think it is the right thing to do.* HAWAII Hawaii residents voted by a narrow margin to convene a state cons= titutional convention in which they could possibly discuss passage of a sta= te constitutional amendment to outlaw same sex marriage in Hawaii. The que= stion, *Shall there be a convention to propose a revision of or amendments = to the Constitution?* must appear on the ballot every 10 years in Hawaii. D= elegates to the convention will not be appointed until the 1998 general ele= ction, unless a special election is called for this purpose. It is possibl= e that the prospect of a constitutional convention will dissuade the Hawaii= state legislature from taking up same sex marriage. The trial in Baehr v Miike, a case in which gay and lesbian coupl= es are seeking the right to legally marry, began on September 10, closing a= rguments were heard on September 20, amicus briefs have been filed, and a d= ecision is expected in December or January. In order for the state to prev= ail, the state government must show a *compelling state interest* for not g= ranting marriage licenses to same sex couples. If the court decides that t= he state failed to meet this burden, Hawaii is expected to see a final cour= t ruling, upholding same sex couples* right to marry. The case arose from = a 1993 Hawaii Supreme Court ruling that said that the state had to show a c= ompelling interest in denying marriage licenses to gay couples, which the c= ourt called unconstitutional discrimination on the basis of sex. The case = was sent back to a trial court to give the state a chance to make its case.= Whatever the outcome, the case is expected to return to the state Supreme = Court for a final ruling. To support the state*s case, the legislature pa= ssed a law in 1994 defining marriage as solely between a man and a woman; i= t also appointed a commission to study the issue of same sex marriage. The= commission issued a report last December, recommending by a 5-2 vote that = same sex marriage be legalized. Thus, experts predict that the state will = not be successful in its assertions of a compelling interest in denying suc= h marriages. Legal contact: Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, 666 Broadway, = 12th Floor, New York, NY 10012; (212) 995-8585; Attn: Evan Wolfson. INDIANA Lafayette On November 4, the Lafayette City Council surprisingly voted not to re= peal the sexual orientation provisions of the local civil rights ordinance.= This was the second of two votes on these provisions. The repeal had pas= sed by a vote of 5-4 on the initial reading, but was ultimately rejected by= a vote of 6-2. The *sexual orientation* wording had been added in 1993. A seventeen-year member of the city council in neighboring Bloomington= had sent letters to the Lafayette City Council urging its members to rejec= t the repeal amendment. People For the American Way Action Fund*s presiden= t also sent a similar letter. The deputy legal director for the People For = the American Way Action Fund, commented, *We*re quite pleased the city coun= cil has done the right thing and sent the right message to all citizens tha= t everyone in the community should be treated equally and fairly.* A staff= attorney for Lesbian Rights in San Francisco said, that the repeal would h= ave sent *a very chilling message to lesbian and gay people that their civi= l rights -- the very basic rights to be able to seek work and hold a job -= - [were] not secure.* MAINE On November 12, Concerned Maine Families (CMF) announced that the= y had collected enough signatures to qualify a ballot referendum that would= prohibit Maine from recognizing same sex marriages performed in other stat= es. CMF has gathered 60,000 signatures, almost one-fifth more than the 51,= 000 signatures needed to qualify. If the signatures are approved, the init= iative will appear on the November 1997 ballot. The Maine Lesbian and Gay P= olitical Alliance mounted an unsuccessful *Decline to Sign* campaign agains= t CMF*s effort. Although the referendum is supposedly intended to *encoura= ge the traditional monogamous family unit as the building block of our soci= ety, the foundation of harmonious and enriching family life,* CMF*s leader = would also like to block the newly enacted domestic partner benefit policy = at the University of Maine. CMF initiated this drive less than a year afte= r Maine voters defeated the only anti-gay referendum to appear on a ballot = in 1995. MICHIGAN Lansing Both ballot measures to repeal Lansing*s March 1996 civil rights = ordinance -- which contained a ban on discrimination in housing, employment= , and public accommodations on the basis of sexual orientation -- passed on= November 5. While the measures had the same effect, they were written by = different sources and used different language to convey their message. The = city council wrote Proposal One in clear, concise language. Majority Oppos= ing Special Treatment (MOST) crafted Proposal Two in ambiguous language app= arently intended to confuse voters. Proposal One passed by a slimmer margin= of 52% to 47%, and proposal Two passed by a vote of 55% to 44%. A long battle was waged in Lansing over the issue of civil rights= for gay men and lesbians. Public debate had raged for 18 months before the= Lansing City Council passed the anti-discrimination ordinance in March. I= mmediately thereafter, MOST began collecting signatures, and collected enou= gh to put the measure to a referendum. However, the Lansing Equal Rights T= ask Force, with the help of Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, filed = a lawsuit in Ingham County Circuit Court charging that the petitions violat= ed the city charter because they did not state the ordinance in full and we= re accompanied by misinformation about it, and alleging that the Lansing Ci= ty Clerk acted illegally when she certified the repeal measure for the refe= rendum. MOST lost, and was given 30 days to recollect the signatures. Saugatuck A committee will reexamine an ordinance designed to protect the c= ivil rights of gay men and lesbians, even though the city council terminate= d its discussion of such an ordinance months ago. Council member Peg Sanfo= rd reintroduced the issue by showing a summary of nearly 50 similar ordinan= ces in effect in other communities. She said, *A human rights ordinance wi= ll not hurt this community, why not have [one] when we have residents who f= eel safer with one in place.* The Saugatuck City council voted 6 to 1 in = early September to reopen the issue of preserving human rights regardless o= f sexual orientation. The council will form a committee of 10 residents an= d three council members to discuss the issue. Legal contact: Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, 17 E. Monroe = Street, Ste. 212, Chicago, IL 60603; (312) 759-8110; Attn: Patricia Logue. PENNSYLVANIA On October 16, Governor Tom Ridge signed a bill that would ban same-se= x marriages in Pennsylvania. The bill was introduced as an amendment to Se= nate Bill 434, an unrelated piece of legislation that allowed grandparents = to apply for custody of their grandchildren. The Senate voted 43-5 to pass= it on October 1, and the House passed it on October 7, by a vote of 189-13= . Representative Ron *Huck* Gamble (D-Allegheny), a conservative who is r= etiring at the end of the term, said he had never expected to vote on a bil= l defining marriage as between a man and a woman. He commented, *I just th= ank God I*m going back to Oakdale, where men are men and women are women, a= nd believe me boys, there*s one hell of a difference.* Representative Lita= I Cohen of Montgomery County, the only Republican to vote against the bill= , believed the bill*s message was one of *bigotry and hatred.* Elizabethtown On September 17, the Elizabethtown School Board passed a resolution st= ating that the *pro-homosexual concepts on sex and family as promoted by th= e National Education Association [would] never be tolerated or accepted in = this school.* It passed in less than 20 minutes with no public input and n= o research by the board. The resolution was originally sent to a school bo= ard member with hand-written comments from Beverly LaHaye, president of Con= cerned Women of America. The resolution provoked self-censorship. The Eli= zabethtown High School band director decided not to allow the band to play = *YMCA,* by The Village People at the next football game. He remembered tha= t some school board members did not approve when the school vocal group san= g the same song a year prior. On October 8, 250 middle and high school students marched out of class= es to protest the *pro-family* resolution. At the next school board meetin= g, dozens of Elizabethtown area residents attended the school board meeting= , and lined up at microphones to voice their opposition to the *pro-family*= resolution. The board referred the resolution to its policy committee for= review. The Board was scheduled to reconvene on November 12 to discuss th= e committee*s review. Area parents have organized a group called Common Se= nse to oppose the resolution. WISCONSIN In Nabozny v. Podlesny, the U.S.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circu= it ruled that a Wisconsin school district can be sued for failure to protec= t a student from anti-gay assaults. The decision reversed a lower court*s r= uling to throw out the case for lack of evidence. A gay man sued his forme= r Wisconsin school because it had failed to protect him from constant, at t= imes brutal, anti-gay assaults and harassment while he was a student. The = case, brought by Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, was the first to = challenge anti-gay violence in the schools. The managing attorney for Lamb= da*s Midwest Regional Office who argued the appeal commented, *This ruling = in favor of [Nabozny] is spectacular news for young lesbians and gay men fa= cing violence and harassment in their schools. It means the federal consti= tution requires schools to offer gay students the same protections and safe= ty given to other students. This may seem obvious, but school officials re= gularly deny young lesbians and gay men refuge from violence.* The plainti= ff said, *I hope the thousands of other gay teens forced to live through th= is kind of terror will be encouraged by my victory and will not give up. I= feel like someone has finally recognized that it was the violence that was= the problem, not me or my sexual orientation.* Nabozny now awaits trial in the Western District of Wisconsin, schedul= ed to begin on November 18. The trial will consider whether the school and= the school principals (middle school and high school) denied him equal pro= tection under the United States Constitution and will involve both gender a= nd sexual orientation discrimination. The trial court will examine the iss= ue of the school principals who allegedly treated the abuse of Jamie Nabozn= y differently from abuse of other students. For example, the appeals court= observed that the school principal*s failure to take action on Jamie*s com= plaint that he was mock-raped in front of classmates and said, *We find it = impossible to believe that a female lodging a similar complaint would have = received the same response.* Legal contact: Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, 17 E. Monroe = Street, Ste. 212, Chicago, IL, 60603; (312) 759-8110; Attn. Patricia Logue= . The information in this report was obtained from national and grassroots or= ganizations, activists, and media, including the following: Citizens Against Discrimination. P.O. Box 519, Edneyville, NC 28727; (= 704) 685-9673; charles6@aol.com. Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), 150 W. 26th Stree= t, Suite 503, New York, NY, 10001; (212) 807-1700; glaad@glaad.org Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation/San Francisco Bay Area (GL= AAD/SFBA), 1360 Mission Street, Suite 200, San Francisco, CA, 94103; (415)= 861-4588; glaadsfba@aol.com Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Teachers Network (GLSTN), 122 W. 26th Stree= t, Suite 1100, New York, NY, 10001; (212) 727-0135; GLSTN@glstn.org Human Rights Campaign (HRC), 1101 14th Street, NW, #200, Washington, D= C 20005; (202) 628-4160; hrc@hrcusa.org L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center, 1625 N. Schrader Blvd., Los Angeles,= CA, 90028; (213) 860-7358; gaylesbla@aol.com Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., 666 Broadway, New York,= NY 10012-2317;(212) 995-8585 National Advocacy Coalition on Youth and Sexual Orientation (NACYSO), = 1711 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 206, Washington, DC, 20009; (202) 319-75= 96; NACYSO@aol.com National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), 2320 17th Street, NW, Was= hington, DC 20009-2702; (202) 332-6483; ngltf@ngltf.org New Jersey Gay Lesbian Coalition, P.O. Box 11355, New Brunswick, = NJ 08906-1335; (908) 828-6772; nglgc@plts.org. Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (P-FLAG), 1012 14th= Street, NW, # 700, Washington, DC 20005; (202) 638-4200; PFLAGNTL@aol.com PERSON Project (Public Education Regarding Sexual Orientation National= ly)/Jessea Greenman, 586 62nd Street, Oakland, CA 94609-1245; (510) 601-88= 83; jessea@uclink4.berkeley.edu Privacy Rights Education Project, P.O. 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