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who protested were removed from the hearing room by security guards. Committee chairperson Dianne McCarthy-she prefers to be called chairman-allowed only two opponents to testify and overruled all attempts to stop the use of insulting language. One of those allowed to speak in opposi-

tion was the Rev. Paul Breton of the Phoenix MCC. But Skelly referred to him as "a so-called minister of a so-called church." The committee approved the bill that day, without debate.

The following day, after Skelly had repeated his epithets for television cameras, members of the Alliance picketed his home. Skelly later reported to his colleagues in the House, with apparent surprise, that the pickets stayed long after dark. "They even went and got candles," he said. Although he seemed amused by their perseverance, he has not since used the words "fag" and "queer" in pub-

lic.

On Apr. 9 the bill moved easily through the Rules Committee. In protest against the Rules Committee action, Alliance President Chuck Simson and fundraiser Wally Connolly began a four-day fast, camping out on the Capitol grounds. Although there had been

no violence and no threat of violence, the House mobilized for the floor vote, hiring 17 extra security. guards. After the bill's passage, the Alliance and its supporters left the building to find, waiting outside, two police vans, four city police cars, one state police car, three county cars and two state correctional vans.

"They were expecting a riot," Rev. Breton told the ADVOCATE, "so we joined hands and said a prayer." There were no ar-

rests.

The next day, Sunday, the Alliance held a rally on the Capitol grounds, attracting about 50 demonstrators--a good number for quiet Phoenix-and none of the local press.

The measure, after a section prohibiting incest of various kinds, reads as follows:

"B. Marriage between persons of the same sex is prohibited and void.

"Section 2. Emergency.

"To preserve the public peace, health and safety it is necessary that this act become immediately operative. It is therefore declared to be an emergency measure, to take effect as provided by law."

The Alliance is supported in its efforts to kill the bill by "friends in the Senate" and by several community organizations, including the Phoenix chapter of the National Organization for Wom-

en.

In its resolution against the bill, the Alliance said it "represents an intrusion by certain religious doctrines into the conscience of the state," establishes "discrimination and oppression of gay people as state-wide policy and practice" and is "blatant anti-homosexual discrimination . . . founded on fallacies and fears about the gay community.

"In order to preserve the public peace, health and safety," the resolution continued, "it is necessary that HB 2024 be defeated and the Gay People's Alliance urges the 32nd legislature to resist this attempt to deprive gay people of their personhood."

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