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seph Bruno allowed it to come to the floor last
month, it passed easily and with considerable
Republican support. The law stiffens penalties
for many crimes if they are motivated by bias
against a victim’s race, religion, sex, sexual ori
entation, disability or age.
Discrimination suit settled
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—^An appliance
rental company will pay $2 million in damages
to job applicants who were asked questions
about their sex lives and religious viewpoints.
Rent-A-Center Ihc. will distribute the money
to more than 1200 of its employees and appli
cants as part of a lawsuit settlement. The com
pany will also stop administering the question
naire as part of the agreement. Some employ
ees said they were required to answer 502 true-
or-false questions to qualify new-hires and pro
motions. The test included questions pertain
ing to the job applicant’s bodily functions and
religious views. Other questions focused on the
applicant’s sexual habits, including: “I have
never indulged in any unusual sex practices”
and “I am very strongly attracted by members
of my own sex.”
Bush opposes gays adopting
AUSTIN, TX—Republican Presidential
candidate and Texas governor George W. Bush
has a plan to speed the process for married
couples to adopt children out of Texas foster
care system, but says he opposes adoption by
same-sex couples or single people. Asked if chil
dren currently being raised by GLBT parents
should be taken away, he said he had “no idea.”
Man gets 40
AUSTIN, TX—The man who brutally
stabbed to death an Austin crossdressing gay
teen recently pleaded guilty and received a 40-
year sentence in a plea agreement. Gamaliel
Coria, 29, pleaded guilty to the 1999 murder
of Donald Scott Fuller, 18, who was also known
as Lauryn Paige. Coria picked Fuller up at a
convenience store and eventually stabbed him
several times in the head and torso, dumping
the body in a wooded area.
More Internet arrests
HASTINGS, MN—^A Minneapolis man
has been accused of taking a 13-year-old boy
he met on the Internet to a park and raping
him. Robert W. Nelson III, 48, was charged
with third-degree criminal sexual conduct. The
boy, who said he met Nelson over the Internet,
told police Nelson picked him up at a gas sta
tion and threatened to harm him if he didn’t
have sex with him. The boy said Nelson posed
on the Internet as a 16-year-old boy. In
Piscataway, NJ, a church pastor was arrested at
a fast-food restaurant where he admitted he had
gone to engage in a sex act with a teenage boy
he met on the Internet. Rev. William Cabell
began communicating with “Adam,” who was
really an undercover agent, in October.
Three leaders resign
FORT WAYNE, IN—Three leaders of a
Christian-based counseling agency resigned af
ter its directors voted to ban gays from the
board. The decision was made at Hope Alive,
Inc. because engaging in homosexual behavior
violates Biblical values, said director emeritus
Milli Bishton.
Suit settled
MINNEAPOLIS, MN—^The University of
Minnesota agreed to pay $80,000 to settle a
lawsuit by gay university employee Richard
Marsden, who claimed he’d been the victim of
a hostile, homophobic environment while he
was academic adviser in the men’s and women’s
athletic departments.
International
Nail bomber convicted
LONDON, ENGLAND—British engineer
David Copeland, 24, who launched a two-week
nailbombing campaign against minority groups
in London has been jailed for life for three
murders. Copeland was convicted of three sepa
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Bangladeshi communities. He received six life
sentences for his crimes. The three people who
died were victims of a bomb attack on a gay
bar in London’s Soho district. Copeland, who
told police he carried out the attacks because
he wanted to start a “racial war,” showed no
emotion as the verdict and sentences were read.
Official gay murder
DUBAI, SAUDI ARABIA—Three Saudi
men were recently convicted of homosexual acts
and raping children. They were executed. In a
statement carried by state media, the Interior
Ministry said an Islamic court had found the
three man guilty of “committing the extreme
obscenity of homosexuality and imitating
women,” in violation of Islamic ethics which
ban homosexuality. The three men were also
convicted of raping children and photograph
ing them naked.
Gay vicar in hiding
KNIGHTSBRIDGE, ENGLAND—The
vicar of one of England’s most exclusive par
ishes has been forced to flee his vicarage by a
hate campaign of intimidation after he disclosed
that he was gay. Fr. Neil Follett is now in hid
ing on police advice. Fr. Follett, 50, recently
told the parochial church council that he was
gay and is being backed by the congregation.
The harassment campaign includes four alle
gations of blackmail and intimidation through
letters and telephone calls. It was later learned
that an academic in Germany is behind the
blackmail. After Fr. Follett befriended the uni
versity professor over the Internet, he visited
him at his vicarage. The relationship between
the two deteriorated after a dispute over an al
leged credit card bill, and it is understood that
the academic threatened to expose the vicar’s
sexuality to newspapers. T
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