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News Q-Notes ▼ November 15.1997 ▼ PAGE 19 Continued from page 13 year-old daughter Heathers class. After the board’s decision was announced, an audience filled mosdy with supporters of Forrester broke into cheers. Forrester still fiices a state investi gation. In July, Trelow asked the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing to re voke Forrester’s license to teach. The commis sion subsequendy opened an investigation and will decide in December whether there is enough evidence against Forrester to proceed. Murderer gets death penalty MEDFORD, OR—A former accountant who admitted killing a lesbian couple after they refused to give him money was sentenced to death. Robert Acremant, 29, lured Roxanne Ellis, 53, and Michelle Abdill, 42, to an apart ment in December 1995 and tried to force them to write $50,000 in checks from their property management business. When they refused, he bound and gagged them with tape and'forced them to lie in the back of a pickup truck. He shot each twice in the head. Acremant pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated murder. Gay priest fired NEW HAVEN, CT—^Albertus Magnus College, a Roman Catholic institution, fired an openly gay associate dean two months after he identified himself in a newspaper article as a priest. The college’s president, Julia M. McNamara, said that Michael Hartwig, 43, who is also a professor of philosophy and reli gion-, had been dismissed because he indicated that he had left the priesthood when he applied to work at the college six years ago. Dr. Hartwig was placed on leave, with pay, until his con tract expires on June 30, 1999. Church offi cials in Dallas said Dr. Hartwig had resigned from active duties in the ministry, but had never sought to return to lay status. According to an article in the New Haven Renter, however. Dr. Hartwig’s supporters believe he was fired be cause he is gay. His dismissal came after a na tional Catholic newspaper. The Wanderer, picked up on newspaper stories about Dr. Hartwig and his partner. Some Catholics ap parently complained to diocesan officials in New Haven after they had read that article. Gay couple wins adoption HACKENSACK, NJ—A state court judge has granted a gay male couple the right to adopt a foster child they had been caring for for nearly two years. It was believed to be only the second time that a gay couple has been given the right to adopt a child in New Jersey, although the state allows them to be foster parents. The de cision, by Superior Court Judge Sybil Moses, could open the door to adoption of children by other unmarried couples. Current New Jer sey law states that individuals or married couples can apply to adopt children, but does not spe cifically state that unmarried couples can do so. The American Civil Liberties Union, which represented the couple, said the'judge’s deci sion may alter New Jersey adoption laws and is another example of a growing list of gay rights cases in courts nationwide. Courts in NJ, NY, MA, VT, WA and CA have sided with gay couples who have sued to win “second parent” adoption rights over the past decade. Gay teen murder suspect PHILADELPHIA, PA—The parents of a teenager accused of killing 11-year-old Eddie Werner say they left him home that day be cause he seemed “docile,” not violent and troubled as he had been. Nicholas and Dolores Manzie left their 15-year-old son, Sam, at home Sept. 27 to fulfill a commitment to run a jun ket to a Connecticut casino, they told ABC’s Solution to q-crossword found on page 10 Barbara Walters in an interview on 20/20. While they were away, Werner came to the door of their suburban Ocean County home selling candy and holiday items for a PTA fundraiser. Manzie is accused of robbing, sexually assault ing and killing the boy before stuffing his body into a suitcase. In their first public comments since the killing, Manzie’s parents painted a picture of their son as a loner who was strug gling to come to grips with his homosexuality — and finding friends on-line. Prosecutors say Manzie had used an on-line chat room to strike up a relationship with Stephen P. Simmons, a 43-year-old accused pedophile. Simmons is now jailed on charges he molested Manzie dur ing motel-room trysts the two arranged. The boy first began discussing his sexuality with his parents when he was 14, his mother said. His parents said they assured him that whether he was heterosexual or homosexual, the important part was feeling good about himself. Said her husband: “Sam knew how much I was devoted to Catholicism, and I think that’s probably one of the reasons why.” While under psychiatric care, Sam told counselors about his affair with Simmons, prompting a criminal investigation. On Sept. 24, three days before Werner was killed, the Manzies took Sam before Superior Court Judge James Citta in Toms River, asking that the teen be committed. Citta instead en couraged the family to work it out at home. Ten gay candidates win WASHINGTON, DC—Ten of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund’s 15 openly gay can didates won their November 4 races and three more advanced to nm-off elections. Included among the viaories are the first openly gay and lesbian eleaed officials in Ohio and Virginia — Dayton (OH) City Commission candidate Mary Wiseman and Arlington (VA) County Board candidate Jay Fisette. Openly gay elected officials currently serve in only 26 of the 50 states. 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