University Daily Kansan, April 11, 1983
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Rush
when he and his wife separated, and that he expected the same support when he told the senior minister that he was homosexual.
But Rush soon discovered that Gilbert and many of the parishioners in the old, established Church were not as receptive to his homosexuality as they had been to his marital problems.
HE HAD MORE support from other parishioners. A group of supporters in his old church offered to pay his salary if he would start a congregation that would meet in people's homes. At their first meeting, 75 people showed up, he and with weekly meetings the number grew.
Between those meetings, he still kept up his work at St. Paul's. Rush worked as minister of
outreach, and within six weeks the Sunday morning congregation had doubled, largely because of his efforts, he said.
Melvin Wheatley, who was Rush's bishop in Colorado, supported him throughout his ordeal, but not without criticism from some members of the Methodist hierarchy.
WHEATLEY SAID he had cureded many troubled homosexuals during the past 20 years. But he has also known many healthy homosexuals, among them doctors, lawyers and artists, which kept him from stereotyping homosexuals as sick people.
Wheatley said that few of his peers were as accepting as he was of homosexuals, but that gradually more bishops were becoming more tolerant.
"The real issue here is whether people have
"SOME HAVE said the making of laws and the making of sausage are two things that should not be wittedness," he told House members. "Let me say we have made the sausage and it is before
"We have 125 appetites. They have all tasted the sausage and it is bitter."
Under the agreement, small oil wells that are less than 2,000 feet deep and that produce two barrels or fewer per day would be exempt from the tax.
Also, some small recovery wells, which use water pressure to help pump the oil, are exempt
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if they are less than 2,000 feet deep and produce three barrels or fewer per day. The tax plan also exempts recovery wells that are more than 2,000 feet deep and that are not the natural gas producers, the first $81 of gas
For natural gas producers, the first $11 of gas from a well will be exempt.
Tax
The severance tax plan includes an 8 percent tax on royalty owners, although Carlin, in his versions of a severance tax, did not ask the Legislature to include royalty owners. Royalty owners are paid for one-eighth of the natural gas or oil that is pumped from their leased land.
Some information for this story was supplied by United Press International.
the gifts and graces of ministry and meet the church's criteria for ministry," he said. "Homosexuality should not automatically close the door to ordination, just as heterosexuality should not automatically open the door to ordination."
Wheatley said it was unfortunate that the church spurned homosexual ministers, especially those, like Rush, who had proven their abilities through years of service.
RUSH'S BRIGHT blue eyes sparkle when he greets people, old friends and strangers alike, with a strong handshake.
strangers who remembered the national publicity about Rush would recognize the painful history behind his smile.
Only the old friends and maybe some
But Rush says that he has no regrets about revealing his homosexuality.
"Being who I am is so much better than using all the energy it used to take to hide it," he said.
CLOSET HOMOSEXUALS not only hurt themselves but others by hiding within existing structures, such as Christianity, he said.
sang who I am is so kind better than asking at the energy it used to take to hide it. he said, At the energy it used to take to hide it would come out of the closet. He said that unless prevailing attitudes against them changed, homosexuals were doomed to stay imprisoned by their fears and hopelessness.
"There just are not enough of us standing on the line and saying, 'I'm gay,' and that's one of the biggest problems," he said.
Rush likened those in the gay movement who wielded their gay pride to members of the Black
"When you're told for so long that you're not worth anything, some have to overreact. That is why some come out in a rage. That's OK. There has to be some of that."
the biggest one.
"As long as even one of our gay brothers or sisters is imprisoned in inhuman structures, we all are. If gayness is something to be accepted, affirmed and celebrated — and it must and can be — then it deserves to be celebrated openly."
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Savings
would do little to help families save for their children's education.
"I hate to say it, but in 10 years the limit of only $1,000 won't be very helpful," he said. "Really, it isn't a great deal of money when you think in terms of how fast the cost of education
Weinberg said that the Department of Education had not yet contacted KU financial services.
Bower said that the amount of the allowable deposit would depend upon the parents' income.
eligible to deposit the maximum $1,000 amount;
those who earn between $40,000 and $400 could
deposit only a portion of the $1,000; those who earn more than $60,000 would be ineligible for the accounts. Bower said.
WEINBERG SAID that families with incomes of more than the $60,000 limit would be those who could afford to send their children to college and that the income limit would prevent them from benefiting from the accounts.
"We are talking about a program that would benefit a fairly small number of people."
The withdrawals must be reported to the Internal Revenue Service and the spending of the money would be monitored by the office of financial aid at the universities so that any misuse of the accounts could be spotted.
Weinberg said he was concerned that financial aid officers might be made responsible for seeing that the money was spent for educational expenses.
"If SEEMS lately that the financial aid offices are becoming the dumping ground for quite a bit of regulation that the others don't want to mess with," he said.
According to Reagan's proposal, the money would have to be deposited while the child was under 18 and would have to be used by the time he reached high school. He would have to be a full-time undergraduate student.
Bower said that he did not know what changes an alternative proposal might contain.
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