Journal and Courier from Lafayette, Indiana • 7

Journal and Courier Local State Inside Deaths as State A9 Page A7 Monday January 4 1993 In Brief Pine Village woman hurt in accident WILLIAMSPORT An 84 year old woman was hospitalized early Sunday morning after a car truck collision on an icy Warren County road Evelyn McCoskey of Pine Vil lage was in fair condition in St Elizabeth Hospital Medical Cen ter with a broken neck Her daughter Phyllis Hart ley 60 also of Pine Village was driving east on Indiana 55 near US 41 about 4:30 am when their car skidded on a patch of ice on a bridge Their car was struck broadside by a westbound pickup truck that also had skidded out of control on the ice Neither Hartlep nor the driver of the pickup Andrew Hetrick 17 of Williamsport was injured Classes on parenting begin this week amily Services Inc is offering a series of parenting classes the first of which will run from Thursday to Jan 28 The classes will be at the amily Services office at 731 Main St Cost is $8 per session The classes are offered once a week and instructors will teach parents new and effective ways to positively interact with and enjoy their children as well as discipline them Seating is limited but other classes will be offered throughout the year or further information or to register call Judy Thomas di rector of counseling at 423 5361 No players win Lotto Powerball Nd player selected all six winning numbers in the latest Lotto Cash drawing The jackpot for Lotto Cash is now $3 million since nobody won from Saturday drawing The winning numbers were 3 13 27 29 39 and 44 Nobody got all the winning numbers in the Powerball draw ing either increasing its jackpot to $65 million The winning numbers were 9 12 20 27 35 and the Powerball 20 A rollover in Lotto drawing has boosted Wednes jackpot to at least $8 mil lion The winning numbers were 4 11 16 26 31 and 35 Son charged with conspiracy to kill CALUMET CITY Ill The son of a couple slain in their home on New Eve has been charged with recruiting two men in Indiana to kill them au thorities said Sunday David Gorzelanny 38 was charged with murder home in vasion solicitation to commit murder and armed robbery Calumet City Police Lt George Vallis said His parents rank and Evelyn Gorzelanny both 74 were found dead in their Calumet City home riday morning by their son each with a gunshot wound to the head Vallis said Police said the son was not home at the time of the shoot ings but went there after the other two men charged in the case Peter Burton and Scott Stodola came back to the Hammond Ind shelter where they lived with Gorzelanny Public Meetings Today Lafayette School Corp board of trustees organizational meeting 7:30 pm Hiatt Administration Center 2300 Cason St Lafayette City Council monthly meeting sexual orientation or dinance 7 pm Long Center 111 Sixth St i West Lafayette City Council monthly meeting vote to increase sewage rates 7:30 pm city hall 600 Navajo Drive Our Telephones Call Local Editor Christopher Celek directly at 420 5231 from 10 arh to 6 pm weekdays after hours call 420 5243 Outside Tippecanoe County call toll free 3223 Our AX number is 420 5246 Inside Deaths A8 or The Record A8 State A8 9 Term limits not likely for Legislature By The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS Hoosier lawmakers are likely to return to the General Assembly for as long as the voters are willing to tolerate them In other states movements to limit the number of terms legislators may serve have won strong support among voters So far though been no public groundswell for term limits in Indiana Lawmakers who boosted their own pen sions in 1992 show little in clination to step aside without being pushed Plenty of time remains to introduce bills after the Legis lature begins work Tuesday Among the early bills though none would impose term limits Support for both sides ap peared among legislators who responded to an Associated Press questionnaire Though the tally represent a scientific sampling the oppo nents of term limits were gen erally more vocal Braving the elements 'Wehr si 11 's' By Mary Jo CareyJournal and Courier Rod Tillotson braves winds and rain to cross the Purdue University campus A strong flow of mild air moved into the Hoosier state eliminating the ice on roads that caused traffic accidents and one death in the state on Saturday night The unseasonably warm conditions will end today Skeptical voters might look askance at the opponents who like term limit supporters may receive pension benefits for a part time job as well as salary and daily expense money The lawmakers argue term limits would shift power to ward unseen hands which vot ers get the chance to slap Teens write the textbook on sex ed By The Associated Press GOSHEN High school students in Goshen are rewrit ing the book on sex seeking to replace what they see as typi cally boring text with informa tion young people will absorb it will be some thing that students will find said Carl Weaver a bioethics teacher at Goshen High School Choices Chances Al ternatives is designed to ad dress teen concerns about healthy behaviors said Weaver The booklet due out this spring is the result of a sexual behavior survey at Goshen last year by Weaver's class The book will have an initial printing of 1500 and will be distributed to all students at Goshen High Students hope it will eventually find its way to other county schools Many of the articles in the 50 page book are written ac counts from what students have been through Its centerpiece is a decision making chart which begins with choosing between sexual abstinence and sexual activity and leads to consequences such a pregnancy or contract ing a disease survey results indicate there is a problem The flow chart shows there is a way to get a handle on the Weaver said Numbers on the chart refer to sections in the booklet with related articles gay rights act akin to local proposal By JAY BLANTON Journal and Courier With nearly 70000 people and a major university in its midst Columbia Mo shares several similarities with Greater Lafayette One more similarity with the home of the University of Mis souri could be added tonight Since July Columbia has been working with a law nearly identical to one being considered in Lafayette an ordinance making it illegal to discriminate against gays red Boeckmann Columbia city attorney says that more than anything else such laws are a reflection of the changing attitudes of the The human rights commis sion in Columbia is similar to human relations commission in that hearings can be held between disputing parties In Columbia refusing to abide by a commission re commendation could result in a fine in municipal court or said Boeckmann theoretically it could mean jail time Missouri state law as in In diana does not provide protec tion based on sexual orienta tion As of late last month no'one had tested the issue by taking a complaint based on sexual orientation to the human rights commission Boeckmann says Perhaps that be surprising The Columbia hu man rights commissiojn aver ages about five complaints a year Boeckmann says The Lafayette Human Relations Commission had six complaints in 1992 Another similarity is the controversy sexual orientation laws have engendered Eric Niewanner is a member of the group Citizen Alert which seeks to amend the Co lumbia city charter The amendment would prevent the city council from enacting a sexual orientation law The move is similar to the action taken recently in Colo rado where a statewide in itiative prohibiting cities from adopting sexual orientation laws was adopted Niewanner says his group has gathered about 3000 signatures on a petition and needs about 4000 to get the issue on the ballot The group is aiming for a vote this summer he says Niewanner contends that in the neighborhoods where group members have gone the lowest amount of support for the anti gay initiative has been about 50 percent and in general 70 to 80 percent of the people re spond favorably Niewanner contends that the law could cause a sort of re verse discrimination I believe homosexuality is wrong but I'm) asked to tol erate other people you can see the problems that will he says one they're not supposed to discriminate against me based on my reli Ordinance Continued from Page A1 Such protections among other things would include preferences in job hiring and housing and education Pence and other opponents of sexual orientation laws suggest that even the proposed law in Lafayette is a first step toward something more you identify homosexuals as a minority then by definition they would need to be afforded constitutional Pence says to this point our legal tradition in America has drawn a line over those things I do not choose whether I am a black American the great vast ma jority of the psychological community says homosexuality at a very minimum is a choice by the individual and at the maximum is a learned The scientific community is divided over the origins of homosexuality Some controversial studies suggest that homosexuality is genetically based while others as Pence suggests dis agree But Pence has hit on what is surely the toughest battleground for both ad vocates and opponents of sexual orien tation laws deciding what such 'laws mean and what their impact will be in the future Ted leischaker nublisher of two publications for the gay Community the Indiana Word and Kentucky Word says Pence's argument and others like it are a smokescreen designed to divide people against gays who need legal protection buzzword that they use are leischaker says special rights These are rights that everyone should Mark Gibney a political science pro fessor at Purdue University says that equating the path of sexual orientation ordinances with the civil rights move ment or to a lesser extent rights is misleading Affirmative action policies are gen erally the result of economic inequality Gibney says Blacks and women can easily point to pay discrepancies with white men Gays cannot do so urthermore it's to argue that gays will now enjoy greater rights than other Gibney says think simply offering protection" Perhaps the best path for gays rights activists to take Gibney suggests is seeking federal protection from dis crimination like that offered minorities in the 14th amendment to the US Constitution Gibney says extending federal protection for gays would be an easier process than going city by city Pence however argues that similar ordinances being adopted in cities and towns around the country are part of a grassroots movement by gay rights ac tivists suppose that the gay and lesbian political movement in the country may well be targeting a grassroots generated movement for recognition of homosexual rights as well as working as aggTessiveiy as they are in the national Jim Thomas editor of the monthly Lesbian and Gay News Telegraph based in St Louis says the apparent pro liferation of such laws is more about wider acceptance of gays than a con certed grassroots effort Gay activists hdve worked for years to pass local protection laws and more success has been had on the state and federal levels Thomas says I think is new is that there's a backlash going he says Thomas pointed to recent statewide vote in Colorado prohibiting gays rights ordinances And leischaker says the local efforts by gays are necessary to counter movements by fundamentalist religious groups Those groups he says are pushing their political agendas by gaining local government seats on city councils and school boards is where these Christian groups right now are organizing to throw us in the or his part Lafayette City Coun cilman Jerry Ledbetter the sponsor of sexual orientation amendment says he is not part of a plan hatched by the gay community to seek broad civil rights protections for homosexuals locally Ledbetter became interested in the ordinance because his son is gay and the amendment being voted on tonight is the extent of his interest not trying to build a stepping stone into some big movement It was) entirely my idea There was no conspiracy from outside organisations or anything else" Ledbetter says No matter what side of the issue someone is on though nobody ques tions the seriousness of such laws discussing (in Lafayette) what 1 suspect will be one of the big gest issues of the says Pence with the Indiana Policy Review got a tiger by the or Delivery of the Journal and Courier Call 423 2472.