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According to a recent Gallup poll, 59 percent of Americans believe homosexual behavior is morally wrong. And this summer, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) compared homosexuals to kleptomaniacs and alcoholics. Lott's comments were followed by advertisements in major newspapers, paid for by leading organizations on the religious right, that claimed that gays and lesbians could "come out of" homosexuality and embrace a straight lifestyle...
WASHINGTON: The 1998 edition of Bill Clinton may be a lame duck, but the 1995 version still packs plenty of punch. With the budget fight on Capitol Hill steaming toward a surprisingly peaceful conclusion, Trent Lott -- long the Senate's most immovable object -- is suddenly playing Great Compromiser to the White House, greasing the legislative wheels with encouraging words about getting out of town by Wednesday with a budget deal...
...Lott said Serbian forces appear to be withdrawing under threat of a NATO strike and asked why, in "what appears will be three weeks before an election, we are going to go in and bomb some artillery tubes inside Kosovo...
...said he has been backing aggressive action against Serbia since last March, but the administration and NATO have done nothing. "The genocide has been taking place. The damage has been done," Lott said. "Now and only now they prepare to take serious action. I think that is curious...
...Lott, also on ABC, said the administration has not prepared for such contingencies...