Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hampton is willing to justify his anti-gay actions by openly expressing his views, no matter how potentially offensive they are. But for every Jack Hampton there are many, many more judges who might hand down similar rulings without expressing their prejudices to a reporter...
After being evicted, fired or beaten because of their sexual orientation, these gay citizens are left to fend for themselves before prejudiced state courts and officials. The problem is becoming more pressing as more gay litigants appear in cases related to AIDS, the treatment of which has been continuously tainted with homophobia...
Congress should pass legislation which would protect gay men and lesbians. Federal authorities should be permitted to take over investigations of hate-related crimes where there is a possibility justice will not be properly dispensed...
...such legislation would not be a panacea, Kevin Cathcart, an attorney with the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders in Boston, said in an interview. More than half of all federal judges on the bench today were appointed by Ronald Reagan, not exactly a friend to gays and lesbians over the past eight years...
...will review the Hampton case, and there is talk in the state legislature of impeachment. Cathcart says Hampton will probably not be removed before his term runs out--it will be up to the voters in Dallas to send the judge packing, and it will be up to the gay community to continue agitation and publicity toward that...