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on Gay Issues
Democratic Debate for Gay Rights
Democratic presidential contenders faced pointed questions on gay marriage and the basis for sexual orientation in a forum that forced candidates to confront politically touchy issues that have vexed a nation.
Former Sen. John Edwards found himself discussing whether he is comfortable around gay people he said he is. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson appeared to struggle with a question about why people become gay or lesbian. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton ended up defending the record of her husband, former President Clinton, on gay rights.
Mitt Romney in the Cross-Hairs on the Eve of Ames Straw PollDems Tiptoe Around Issues in Gay ForumRADAR: Giuliani: 'I Have That Same Risk'Related Topics
Bill Richardson Democratic Party Human Rights Campaign
"We certainly didn't get as much done as I would have liked," the New York senator said. "But there was a lot of honest effort."
Six of the eight Democratic candidates answered questions Thursday on gay rights at the two-hour forum co-sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign, a gay-rights group active in Democratic politics, and Logo, a gay-oriented cable TV channel that aired the forum live. More At… http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=3467118
THANK YOU Melissa and Hillary
Former Sen. John Edwards found himself discussing whether he is comfortable around gay people he said he is. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson appeared to struggle with a question about why people become gay or lesbian. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton ended up defending the record of her husband, former President Clinton, on gay rights.
Mitt Romney in the Cross-Hairs on the Eve of Ames Straw PollDems Tiptoe Around Issues in Gay ForumRADAR: Giuliani: 'I Have That Same Risk'Related Topics
Bill Richardson Democratic Party Human Rights Campaign
"We certainly didn't get as much done as I would have liked," the New York senator said. "But there was a lot of honest effort."
Six of the eight Democratic candidates answered questions Thursday on gay rights at the two-hour forum co-sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign, a gay-rights group active in Democratic politics, and Logo, a gay-oriented cable TV channel that aired the forum live. More At… http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=3467118
THANK YOU Melissa and Hillary
Gay Rights: Hate Crimes
Autopsy Shows Gay Activist's Death Not Hate Crime;
Family Rejects Findings 04.01.07 By Anthony Cuesta
The family of the 72-year-old gay man whose death became a national focus for gay rights advocates said Thursday they reject an autopsy report stating that he died of natural causes.
According to the Associated Press, Wayne County Medical Examiner Dr. Carl Schmidt said Wednesday that Andrew Anthos died of injuries likely suffered in a fall, and that the evidence did not support reports that he had been the victim of a hate crime. Detroit police announced that they were closing the case. Anthos died Feb. 23, 10 days after relatives say he was beaten by a young man who called him a gay slur, followed him off a city bus and hit him in the back of the head with what Anthos thought was a pipe. "If you want to say he wasn't murdered, OK. But you can't say he wasn't attacked, that it wasn't a hate crime," Anthos' cousin Athena Fedenis told the AP. Anthos’ death had been widely reported by the news media as a hate crime.
On March 2, U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., promoting new legislation, recounted on the Senate floor how an assailant "struck Anthos in the back with a metal pipe, leaving him critically injured, lying in the snow," reports the Detroit Free Press.
Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, implicated religious conservatives soon after the death, reports the Free Press.
"The hatred and loathing that led to the vicious murder of Andrew Anthos only because he was gay is not innate," Foreman said in a statement. "Instead it is being taught every day by leaders of the so-called Christian right and their political allies."
But it was likely a simple movement, not a whack on the head, that felled the man, Schmidt said.
"He probably just flexed his neck," which caused arthritic spurs to compress his spinal cord enough to cause paralysis of his legs. After spinal surgery in the hospital, that numbness later spread to his upper body and caused Anthos to stop breathing, the Free Press quotes Schmidt saying. The only injury noted in the autopsy was a 2-inch-wide bruise on the back of Anthos' head, which likely came when he fell, Schmidt said. The injury was minor, he said.
According to the AP, the Triangle Foundation, a gay-rights advocacy group based in Detroit that has been counseling the family, said the case should remain open. It said that the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case. "We absolutely believe that there was an attack based on (statements), especially Mr. Anthos' account," said Melissa Pope, the group's director of victim services, reports the AP. "It was based on the fact that he was gay, and therefore, a hate crime."
According to the Associated Press, Wayne County Medical Examiner Dr. Carl Schmidt said Wednesday that Andrew Anthos died of injuries likely suffered in a fall, and that the evidence did not support reports that he had been the victim of a hate crime. Detroit police announced that they were closing the case. Anthos died Feb. 23, 10 days after relatives say he was beaten by a young man who called him a gay slur, followed him off a city bus and hit him in the back of the head with what Anthos thought was a pipe. "If you want to say he wasn't murdered, OK. But you can't say he wasn't attacked, that it wasn't a hate crime," Anthos' cousin Athena Fedenis told the AP. Anthos’ death had been widely reported by the news media as a hate crime.
On March 2, U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., promoting new legislation, recounted on the Senate floor how an assailant "struck Anthos in the back with a metal pipe, leaving him critically injured, lying in the snow," reports the Detroit Free Press.
Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, implicated religious conservatives soon after the death, reports the Free Press.
"The hatred and loathing that led to the vicious murder of Andrew Anthos only because he was gay is not innate," Foreman said in a statement. "Instead it is being taught every day by leaders of the so-called Christian right and their political allies."
But it was likely a simple movement, not a whack on the head, that felled the man, Schmidt said.
"He probably just flexed his neck," which caused arthritic spurs to compress his spinal cord enough to cause paralysis of his legs. After spinal surgery in the hospital, that numbness later spread to his upper body and caused Anthos to stop breathing, the Free Press quotes Schmidt saying. The only injury noted in the autopsy was a 2-inch-wide bruise on the back of Anthos' head, which likely came when he fell, Schmidt said. The injury was minor, he said.
According to the AP, the Triangle Foundation, a gay-rights advocacy group based in Detroit that has been counseling the family, said the case should remain open. It said that the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case. "We absolutely believe that there was an attack based on (statements), especially Mr. Anthos' account," said Melissa Pope, the group's director of victim services, reports the AP. "It was based on the fact that he was gay, and therefore, a hate crime."
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