Editorial

To Bork, or not to Bork: What are the issues?

For

Bork or against Bork?

Should Pat run? Will she run? What about our friends and who is really homophobic? find the answers to these questions?

Are these important questions for you or do you just figure that politics in Cleveland is just for straight people anyway?

Ir today's political environment individual involvement by all of Cleveland's lesbians and gays is more important than ever. Even as the AIDS epidemic has given us a national forum, it has also given out would-be oppressors a new excuse for sanctions against us all of us. Any discriminatory legislation will effect all homosexuals, men and women alike.

No one can afford to sit back and think that only the "other guy" will be affected. Going back into the closet isn't the answer either -that's giving in.

This month man of the nation's lesbian and gay men along with their supporters showed that they are not going to give in, that they will not tolerate discriminatory practices in medicine, housing, parenting issues, or politics.

Let's not let the moment um stop. Stay involved during the coming year. Let Cleveland's government know that we do exist and that we will be heard.

For its part, the CHRONICLE will open its Elections '88 department in November, and, for the next twelve months, will bring you election news that directly effects the lesbians and gay men of Greater Cleveland.

On the record

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Bork in

Newsweek's

"I have, as you may notice, a record. --Judge Robert H. to response question as to whether Reagan Administration officials had quizzed him on voting on future issues.

homosexual

We have

policy is said

that

"We cari find no constitutional right to engage conduct and that, as judges, we have no warrant to create one. We rieed ask, therefore, only whether the Navy's rationally related to a permissable end. legislation may implement morality."

--Judge Robert H. Bork in his ruling on the

Dronenberg

Zech case

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