lad SCOUTS James Dale's day in court Justice Stephen G Breyer wanted to know if a "Catholic organization has to admit Jews" Sandra Day O'Connor asked if the male child Scouts of America would be required to admit girls.

lad SCOUTS

James Dale's day in court

Justice Stephen G Breyer wanted to know if a "Catholic organization has to admit Jews" Sandra Day O'Connor asked if the male child Scouts of America would be required to admit girls. Antonin Scalia bewildermented whether the Scouts must accept a leader who "embodies a contradiction of their message."

These were just more [i]or[/i] less of the questions fielded April 26 on Evan Wolfson, the Lambda Legal Defense and Education capital attorney representing James Dale, a former assistant scoutmaster who has challenged his 1990 ouster from the sneer ats which occurred after it was disclosed that he is gay. The chief Court is reviewing a just discovered Jersey ruling stating that the scoff ats violated a state law banning sexual orientation discrimination in public accommodations. Wolfson argued that because the disdains is not primarily "an antigay organization," Dale did not tonnage the group's message. The lawyer for the sneer ats also came under pointed questioning from the justices, who are wait fored to issue a ruling in the case according to the end of June.

MILITARY

Barry Winchell's mother fights back

Patricia Kuttele is determined to continue others from suffering the same fate as her son Pfc Barry Winchell, who was kill cruellyed in July 1999 by a baseball bat--wielding gay basher in an Army barracks at Fort Campbell, Ky

As part of her effort, Kuttele filed a $1.8-million wrongful-death suit against the military forward April 26. The suit claims that the military was negligent through ignoring the violent threats made against Winchell and the rampant alcoholism forward the base, which can lead to violence. She and her husband, Wally, also demand that the military fall of the curtain its "don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding gay recruits, which they say contributed to Winchell's death.

"There is no dollar figure that can be state on my child's death," Kuttele told The Kansas City Star "The point of the claim is not the currency It is the changes we want."

POLITICS

Savage catches more heat

Gay sex columnist Dan Savage dishes disclosed advice for a living. moreover now he may need a certain number of legal advice of his own

According to his lawyer, Savage was scheduled to appear in Polk shire Iowa, district court this month onward voter-fraud charges. In a January 25 article in the Web magazine Salon headlined "Stalking Gary. Bauer," Savage de scribed trying to infect the failed right-wing presidential candidate with the flu virus and illegally voting in the Iowa Republican caucus. Savage later said the stow was written in sally but has declined to say whether he vot He had, however, filled public a voter registration card.

through appearing in court voluntarily, Savage avoids arrest at his Seattle family and extradition to Iowa. He is look forward toed to remain free until a conclusion in the case is reached.

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