‘Gay’ rights flower in Connecticut.
The state legislature has passed a sweeping homosexual rights statute. It criminalizes “discrimination” against homosexuals professional associations, landlords and business people; it gives extensive new powers to a state commission on Human Rights and
Opportunities, including the power to subpoena defendants’ “books and papers” (Sec. 22[10]); and it bans any “advertisement” that “ridicules or holds up to contempt any person or class of persons, on account of the sexual orientation of such person or class of persons…” (Sec. 18) Connecticut Gov. Lowell Weicker (Independent) eagerly signed the bill, and New York Gov. Mario Cuomo (D) has called for a similar bill for his state. For good measure Connecticut also repealed its anti-adultery statute.
Florida: Is it art?
In marked contrast to President Bush’s handling of the funding of pornographic art by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Florida Governor Lawton Chiles has lined up with pro-family forces. Gov. Chiles, a Democrat, sent a strongly worded letter of protest to Secretary of State Jim Smith about a homoerotic exhibit at Orlando’s Valencia Com-munity College. The exhibit included pictures of a naked man masturbating while wear-ing a crown thorns, male genitals wrapped in rosary beads, and two men in bed covered with an American flag. The Governor called the display “shocking” and said measures must be taken to avoid repetition of the incident. Such exhibits could “undermine public support for any arts funding,” Gov. Chiles said. The exhibit was funded by the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, which received $400,000 from the NEA.
Source: Washington Watch, Vol 2, No.8, May 1991.
Tundra priest turned rescuer jailed 15 days
Father George Endal, an 890year old Jesuit priest, spent 15 days in an Alaskan jail after being arrested during an Alaskan jail after being arrested during an abortuary rescue. He was originally sentenced by Judge David Mannheimer to 90 days, suspended 75, and fined $250. Fr. Endal refused to pay the fine, and instead performed 40 hours of community service.
The spry, gentle man, shoulders stooped with age, maintains a twinkle in his eye and a smile on his face. “Going to jail for me is a joyful experience. I’m learning all kinds of things. I feel I can do good with almost anybody I talk to. Whether I do it in or out of jail is not important. I’m as free as a bird. It makes no difference where I am.” He said he felt no ill will toward anyone, including the judge who sentenced him, but he said that the judge and others should not uphold laws against God’s will. “They are preferring the money [they are paid] to human life, and God tells you that you can’t serve God and money.”
Source: The Rescuer, May/June, 1991
Virgina turnabout?
Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, who won the governor ship in 1990 on a pro-abortion platform, has daringly spoken out in support of abstinence and against the distribution of condoms to school-children. The Democratic presidential prospect also told interviewers that young blacks need family and church “to transmit values of honesty and hard work from generation to generation. “Wilder said: “Too many young black males have trouble doing hard, honest work and staying out of jail, but no problem making illegitimate babies.” Meanwhile, Wilder’s longtime rival, Sen. Charles Robb (D.Va.), faced an unwelcome spotlight answering persistent questions about sexual misconduct and attendance at parties where cocaine was used. His chances for the While House dimmed.
Discrimination on the basis of creed
Middlebury, Vt. Under the charge of discrimination on the basis of creed, Vermont Catholics for Free Choice (VCFC) are suing two pro-life printers here for refusing to print membership materials.
The small pro-abortion group is supported by the Vermont Human Rights Commission and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). One ACLU lawyer admitted to the Burlington Free Press that never before had his group found itself insisting that someone print something he does not want to print.
The time has come
Morristown, N.J. Municipal court judge Michael Noonan convicted 15 pro-life activists here of criminal trespass at a local abortuary. But, said judge Noonan, there was no doubt that human life begins at conception.
Based on current medical science, Judge Noonan suggested that the time has come to review the 1973 Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion on demand.
Washington. On May 23 the U.S. Supreme court upheld the government regulation prohibiting federally funded or subsidized family-planning clinics from discussing abortion or telling clients where to get them.
The vote was 5 to 4, with newly appointed Justice David Souter voting with the majority.
The Sun papers’ Washington correspondent, Joe O’Donnell saw the decision as one more step in the totalitarian control fo the country by pro-lifers.
O’Donnell and his U.S. pro-abortion sources interpreted the refusal of the federal government to get into abortion promotion as “an assault on the free speech” [of the abortionists].
