Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, April 25, 1986 Page: 3 of 20
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NEWS
Brennan won’t quit
Supreme Court
Justice William Brennan turned 80
this week and said he won’t be leaving
the Supreme Court anytime soon.
Meeting with reporters last week, the
liberal justice said a recent medical
exam showed he was in “first-rate”
physical condition.
“As long as the good Lord lets me
stay here, you can expect to see me
sitting right where I am now,” he
said.
Now in his 30th year on the court,
Brennan could be a key justice when
the Georgia and Texas appeals on
sodomy are considered. Oral argu-
ments in the Georgia case have al-
ready been heard by the Court, and a
decision in that case is expected later
this year.
Should Brennan leave. President
Reagan would have an opportunity to
put a conservative in his place, thus
shifting the Court’s philosophical bal-
ance to the right.
Conservatives have branded the
senior member of the Court as a
“judicial activist,” and say he uses the
law to achieve social reforms.
Jury finds Medrano
guilty in DWI case
Dallas school board trustee Robert
Medrano, a brother of pro-gay for-
mer City Councilman Ricardo
Medrano, was convicted of driving
while intoxicated.
DALLAS VOICE
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Copyright 1986
Medrano was arrested last Novem-
ber while driving home from a city
bond election victory party. He re-
fused to allow officers to take a blood
sample to determine his blood-alco-
hol level, citing fears that he could
contract AIDS from the procedure.
Medrano will be sentenced April
30. Mothers Against Drunk Driving
(MADD) have called for his resigna-
tion from the school board. He repre-
sents Oak Lawn and West Dallas on
the panel.
You can still call
Rev. Jerry Falwell
Moral Majority leader Jerry Fal-
well has switched his Old Time Gos-
pel Hour phone lines from toll-free
numbers to regular numbers, citing
thousands of harassing phone calls
from gays and others that have cost
his organization millions of dollars.
He’s appealed for more money to
continue his work.
To get in touch with Jerry, you can
call him at his new group, the Liberty
Federation, at 1-800-826-1234 or at
Liberty College at 1-800-522-6225.
Search on forthose
who received AIDS-
tainted transfusions
Blood-collection agencies across
the nation are searching for more
than 1,000 people who may get AIDS
from blood that was tainted with the
HTLV-III virus.
The agencies have expanded a pro-
gram begun in 1984 to find the people
who were given blood that was from
donors who later tested positive for
antibodies to the AIDS virus.
Blood donated since March 1985 is
considered safe, The American Med-
ical News reports.
Committee bows to
fundamentalists
A State Board of Education panel
has backed away from a plan to regu-
late home and private schools after
thousands of fundamentalist Christ-
ians rallied in Austin to oppose the
proposal.
“I’ve never seen any spontaneous
grass-roots response of this nature,
whether in the anti-abortion move-
ment or the anti-homosexual rights
movement,” said Stephen Hotze,
head of the Houston-based Texans
Against Compromise in Education.
Hotze was a vocal supporter of
efforts in Houston to rescind gay-
rights legislation and backed Louie
“Shoot the Queers” Welch in his un-
successful bid to oust Mayor Kathy
Whitmire.
Outspoken anti-gay leader State
Rep. Bill Ceverha, R-Richardson,
told Board members “there is no
compromise position” on the plan
that \tfould allow the state to regulate
home schooling.
Board members asked the Legisla-
ture to establish guidelines on what
constituted acceptable private educa-
tion.
Fear of AIDS brings
separate classes
A group of parents are paying the
salaries of two teachers to conduct
special classes for students afraid to
goto school with Kokomo, Ind., AIDS
victim Ryan White.
Concerned Citizens and Parents
expects at least 23 pupils to leave
school and attend classes at a former
American Legion hall because they
won’t go to school with their 14-year-
old classmate who contracted AIDS
while being treated for hemophilia.
White was barred from school for
most of the year as the courts ruled on
a suit and appeals brought by parents
who wanted to keep him out. Experts
testified that AIDS could not be
spread by casual contact and finally
on April 10 a judge struck down an
injunction keeping White from class.
Meanwhile, a new Gallup poll
shows that most parents would allow
their children to attend school with
another student who had AIDS. One-
fourth of those polled would not.
Of 1,004 people polled. 98 percent
were aware of the disease and six
percent believed it could be trans-
mitted by casual contact.
Curiously, only seventeen percent
who said they would not allow their
children to attend classes with an
AIDS victim also believed the disease
could be spread by social contact.
Another 59 percent of that group
did not believe AIDS could bespread
in this manner and 24 percent were
undecided. The poll had a margin for
error of 4 percent.
‘Pardon me, this is
where I get off
Every copy of the Toronto Transit
Commission’s new route map has
been recalled because of a misprint.
Instead of noting the location of
Queen’s Park Station, the map says
“Queer’s Park.” Locals say either
name would do. since the park is a
rather notorious spot.
ID0NT SUPPOSE
THEBES ANf MY
WE CAN PASS
THESE INCREASED
Costs of doing
BUSINESS ON TO
OUR CUSTOMERS...?
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Friday, April 25, 1986
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