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...bishops in Washington, D.C., an interview with a nineteen-year-old man who regularly drove when Barry Goodinson invited worshipers to sign a petition into the Montrose section of the city with a friend to prey on being circulated nationwide by New Ways Ministry, an adhomosexuals...

...Religion also plays a role, in Johnston's view...

...He notes that "gays are the only group in the United are themselves bishops, Walter F. Sullivan of Richmond and States that it's okay to beat up," and points out that even when Thomas J. Gumbleton of Detroit...

...place in the South End, where there's a large gay presence, and The spokesperson for a group organized to fight the referenthe perpetrator was using terms demeaning to homosexuals...

...da voted on last November, most of the same churches have refused to alter their basic ethical teachings on homosexuality...

...It took love gays" and "Kill Catholics and gays" within the church...

...Comstock in a 1991 book, Violence against Lesbians and Gay Who are the gay-bashers...

...Known perpetrators are predom- Men (Columbia University Press), which contends that heightinantly males in their teens or early twenties, often from mid- ened violence against gays fosters still greater insistence by dle-class backgrounds...

...I don't re- legislative protections for gay men and lesbians could threatally feel no remorse about anything I ever did to a gay person...

...they did not appear to him as real people...

...But, ops said there was no conflict between their opposition to the according to sources like Boston's Lieutenant referendum and the CDF statement...

...Ehrlich' s view their sexual orientation-and police efforts to respond to the that increased visibility brings increased hostility against marproblem are hindered because victims are often reluctant to press ginalized groups...

...The petition, directed to the kins on Halloween...

...which are bishops of Oregon and Colorado opposed the antigay referenwhat I want you to say...

...when it was ignored, vandals set fire recalled a 1990 case of a man who had been severely beaten...

...Dr...

...in the gay community do you find this kind of fear," he added...

...People fall Silence back on their religious beliefs to justify their hate," he says...

...The assumption seems to be that the perpetrators are basically good Susan Rea kids who should not be burdened with a criminal record...

...It's en family life, and contended that there is no empirical evijust the way I grew up...

...According to the National Catholic Reporter charges or even to contact the police because they fear harass- (October 30, 1992), the pastor of one Oregon parish received ment at work, loss of jobs, or alienation from their families if a telephoned warning against publicizing the bishops' statement they do testify in court on the nature of the incident...

...sons not worthy to live...

...dum-a grandmother who heads the Ecumenical Ministries of The police were ready to classify the episode as a bias crime, Oregon-reported receiving telephone threats saying she should but were stymied by the victim's reluctance to prosecute...

...Oregon's, which gays, while characterizing homosexual acts as objectively sinwould have required schools to teach that homosexuality is "ab- ful, was complicated by a statement distributed to U. S. Catholic normal, wrong, unnatural, and perverse," failed, but Colorado's bishops by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) less extreme measure forbidding "protective status based on in July 1992 entitled "Some Considerations Concerning the homosexual, lesbian, or bisexual orientation," passed...

...Johnston opposing the referendum...

...Catholic Response to Legislative Proposals on the NonDiscrimination of Homosexual Persons...

...Some preachers do condemn homosexuality and "gay lifestyles" I hear no sound in terms that, to homosexuals, appear to brand them as evil peras clearly as your silence...

...That Stories" aired last year was based on a police decoy operation insistence was evident in our own parish a few weeks before begun in Houston after the murder of Paul Broussard...

...It included last November's meeting of U.S...

...He compared beating them to smashing pump- vocacy group for gay Catholics...

...Among the 14,000 persons across Lieutenant Johnston believes antigay attacks are socially en- the country who signed the New Ways petition were two who couraged...

...when they do, they are often thwarted by judges who give lenient sentences...

...to an office in the rectory and painted such phrases as "Catholics "There's no doubt it was an antigay attack," he said...

...The Catholic stance, which opposes discrimination against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation...

...Many parishioners at Saint police make an arrest and a victim is willing to testify, prose- Aloysius signed, and so did I. D 18: 26 February 1993 Commonweal...

...Ehrlich's thesis is pushed a step further by Gary David "I never see it in bias crimes involving blacks or Hispanics...

...dence to support such fear...

...The Oregon bishlaws and don't need "special" protection...

...A segment of the CBS program "Street gays and lesbians on becoming active in their own cause...

...The document asserts Defenders of such initiatives say that laws to pro- that it is not unjust discrimination to oppose legislation protect homosexuals aren't necessary because gays tective of gay rights in areas like teaching, athletic coaching, and lesbians are already covered by civil rights adoptive parenting, and military recruitment...

...Only be killed for betraying Christianity...

...While both Catholic and mainstream that net holding Protestant authorities have generally supported laws banning night in place housing and job discrimination against gays, and the Catholic despite the stars...

...hierarchy, took specific issue with the CDF's apparent fear that "It just seems like they're their own race," he said...

...Johnston, gays are the object of attacks precisely because of Some incidents in Oregon tend to support Dr...