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PEOPLE ARE GEORGE M. ANDERSON GETTING HURT THE RISE IN GAY BASHING People who think "hate crime" is a...
...He is a physician and philosopher at the University of Chicago...
...Whereas earlier most of the vi- John's Seminary and College in Boston and of Georgetown olence was directed against property, today, he said, we are see- University...
...file is a philosopher, bioethicist, and director of the Hasting Center...
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...In COMMONWI AI.'s special supplement Alexander Morgan Capron, professor of law and medicine at the University of Southern California, and Vicki Michel, associate director of the university's Center for Health Policy and Ethics, analyze its language, criteria, and safeguards...
...He cited the harassment and attacks suffered by the men who beat him were surprised that their behavior was some Arab-Americans when the Gulf War brought their prestaken seriously...
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...An earlier (1987) bashing" included within it-should talk, as I report on bias crime prepared for the National Institute of Justice, did recently, with Lieutenant Bill Johnston of a branch of the U.S...
...Holocaust memorial services on had been engaged in no more than a weekend sport...
...So must the discussion and the debate COMMONWIAI.'s special report has been used by hospital ethics committees, diocesan social justice offices, law and public policy centers, prolife organizations, parish discussion groups, patient advocacy groups, college ethics cou rses...
...CARLOS GOMEZ gives a first-hand account of the Dutch system that many commentators take to be the model for the law and practice of euthanasia...
...California's euthanasia proposition was described as "state of the art" legislation by its proponents...
...Ehrlich attributes the rise to the increased visibility of been taking place," he said, "I was just robbed...
...Howard Ehrlich, research director of the tional organization of gay and lesbian Catholics, and a memNational Institute against Prejudice and Violence, said in a re- ber of our small inner-city parish in Washington, D.C., spoke cent interview in Baltimore that the rise in hate crimes began with me about the varied forms that "gay-baiting" and "gayin the mid- 1980s, and reflects an overall escalation of violence bashing" can take...
...1994...
...They said,'oh, he's only a fag'-as if they ence into public awareness...
...When I was a gay men and lesbians...
...He would include as another GEORGE M. ANDERSON, S.J., is pastor of Saint Aloysius Church in form of gay-bashing the 1992 ballot initiatives in Oregon and Washington, D.C...
...Department of Justice, concluded that the Boston Police Department...
...college campuses, he said, are sometimes linked with an inThe more familiar bias crimes rise out of racial, ethnic, or crease in anti-Semitic incidents...
...Interviewed by phone, he made clear why he thinks bias Broussard, was beaten and stabbed to death outside a gay bar crime is crime with a difference, and why he includes gay-bash- by a group of ten young men armed with knives and nail-studing within it...
...ported an 11 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents between Barry Goodinson, executive director of Dignity/USA, a na1990 and 1992...
...PEOPLE ARE GEORGE M. ANDERSON GETTING HURT THE RISE IN GAY BASHING People who think "hate crime" is a nonstarter as that antigay harassment and violence in five major U.S...
...LEON KASS examines the consequences for physicians and medical practice if doctors are given the authority to kill or assist in the suicide of their patients...
...The Anti-Defamation League has re- for gay partners, or granting recognition of "gay marriage...
...DANIEL CALLAHAN explores the consequences for society and medicine of legalizing euthanasia...
...Goodinson, thirty-two, is a graduate of Saint throughout American society...
...Colorado aimed at banning civil rights protections forbidding 16: 26 February 1993 Commonweal Euthanasia on the Ballot...
...When I was a decoy in a straight bar where robberies had Dr...
...I was ing "cruder and more personal forms of attacks...
...A twenty-seven-year-old man, Paul mon...
...A single instance, among many gates cases of bias crime...
...The by yelled `faggot' at us," he recalled...
...ded two-by-fours...
...walking with a male friend near Dupont Circle, when a passerThat appears to apply in particular to attacks on gays...
...Johnston heads homosexuals may well have become the most frequent victhe department's Community Disorders Unit, which investi- tims of hate violence today...
...cities a behavioral category-or who don't want "gay- jumped by 131 percent from 1990 to 1991...
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...When back-up officers arrived to make arrests, he added, flict increase...
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...Sometimes, he said, the attacks are verbal...
...Others might add the inaccording to motive, supporters of bias crime laws argue it is creasingly assertive (and, to many, offensive) tactics adopted necessary to track the incidence of bias crimes, and to pun- by homosexual groups like ACT-UP in demonstrations aimed ish them with special severity, because they can intimidate at individuals, groups, and institutions, including the Catholic an entire class of people, and because they often include the church, and in campaigns to enact or preserve statutes outlawthreat or reality of violence...
...EUTIIANASIA The efforts to legalize Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide will continue...
...He is a physician at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center...
...This follows a pattern: "When a tradidecoy in a gay bar I was not simply robbed, I was also beat- tionally subordinate group becomes more visible, levels of conen...
...as such, he sometimes acts as a decoy that could be cited, took place in the Montrose section of in bars, both straight and gay, where attacks have been com- Houston on July 4, 1991...
...In the case of homosexuals, religious prejudice: crossburnings by the Ku Klux Klan, he points to such factors as the election of openly gay public swastikas painted on synagogue walls, name-calling, physi- officials, the emergence of AIDS, and the growth of churches cal attacks on African-Americans, Jews, Asians...
...Such attacks, he said, have National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute asserts become more and more common-proof, for him, of "the current high level of homophobia...
...ing discrimination against homosexuals in housing and emThere are indications that hate crimes in general are on the ployment, establishing inheritance and health insurance rights rise in the United States...
...Though like the MCC [Metropolitan Community Churches, whose some argue that it is improper to classify and punish crimes members are predominantly gay...
Vol. 120 • February 1993 • No. 4
