GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE AUGUST 5, 1994

Oberlin to vote on job bias law

OberlinA proposed charter amendment that would protect lesbians and gays from discrimination in city hiring will very likely be put before voters in November. Councilman Richard Lothrop said he would be surprised if the City Council did not give voters the chance to decide the issue.

"Where something like this might be new for other communities,

"Everyone else from the state to the federal level is making this kind of a change," Lothrop said. "Since our charter is going to have to carry us into the 21st century, I would hope we'd be able to look forward." Councilman Calvin Waite said the amendment was unnecessary.

'Oberlin has a long history of civil rights. Diversity has always been accepted here.'

Oberlin has a long history of civil rights," City Manager Gary Goddard said Friday. "Diversity has always been accepted here."

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"Both gender discrimination and racial discrimination have a long history, but I don't think very many people have been dis-

missed because they were gay," Waite said.

The measure, which would only cover city workers, also adds age, disability, and

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gender as protected categories. A final Council vote is set for August 15.

The city's largest employer, Oberlin College, has had a lesbian-gay non-discrimination policy in place for a number of years. The U.S. Department of Transportation, which operates the Oberlin Regional Air Traffic Control Center in the eastern part of

town, added "sexual orientation" to its nondiscrimination policy in 1993. The state of Ohio also has such a policy.

Five Ohio cities, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Youngstown, and Yellow Springs, have gay civil rights ordinances covering both public and private employment, as well as other areas.

Helms takes a shot at schools

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99-0 vote, an amendment by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., intended to head off the Helms measure, that would ban the use of federal funds to promote all sexual activity, homosexual and heterosexual. The fate of both amendments will be decided in September in a Senate-House conference committee chaired by Sen. Kennedy and Rep. Bill Ford, D-Mich., before President Clinton may sign the bill into law.

Smith said school districts use the money to buy books and other materials that are "so graphic and so disgusting that I can't display them here on the floor of the United States Senate."

But Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., said the provision would forbid counseling of gay students, who are three times as likely to commit suicide as other teen-agers. Helms' measure would cut federal aid to

districts that "carry out a program or activity that has either the purpose or effect of encouraging or supporting homosexuality as a positive lifestyle alternative."

It includes distribution of instructional materials, counseling and referral of students to gay organizations.

The House included a similar amendment when it passed the bill. Differences between the two versions will have to be worked out by a conference committee.

Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, said the proposal would inject the federal government into local decision-making, and would "remove the local discretion that is the hallmark of our educational system."

Some school districts teach acceptance of lesbians and gays during social studies or sex education programs.

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