Friday, September 30.1977
University Daily Kansan
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Wichita Bishop vows to fight gay rights law
WICHTIA-Bishop David Maloney yesterday urged Wichita citizens to work to revoke a gay rights ordinance and vowed that the Wichita would not shade by the new statute.
"The ordinance violates our people's deepest religious convictions and sensibilities and is in conflict with our moral principles," he said in a prepared
Meanwhile, a petition drive was launched to seek a city-wide referendum on the ordinance banning discrimination against homosexuals in housing, employment or public accommodations. The new law, scheduled for a 3-2 vote Tuesday, takes effect Friday.
A SEPARATE petition drive was about to begin in an effort to recall the three city commissioners who voted for the ordinance, and the Sedwick County legal staff was looking into the possibility of challenging the scope of the ordinance.
Bishop Maloney said Catholic schools were created to support the church's moral principles and he said hiring policies should support the religious principles of the church.
"We feel obliged to continue to adhere to those policies," he said. "We shall not hire, and we shall readily discharge, any person in our employ who practices or advocates
sexual contact contrary to the clearly established teachings of the Roman Catholic
MAYOR TONY CASADO, one of the two who voted against the measure, said he asked the city attorney before the vote whether the ordinance would apply to religious-affiliated schools in the city. But he never got a direct answer to the question.
Bishop Maloney urged Catholics to participate in the petition drive seeking a ban on abortion.
The Rev. Ron Adrian, chairman of Concerned Citizens for Community Stamp Sale, said he would signatures on the petitions by No. 1, although 9,815 is the number he legally needs to force commissioners to either repeal the ordinance or call a special meeting.
County Commission Chairman Tom Scott has ordered county counselor Ted Hill to get ready to challenge a Kansas attorney who argued against the rights ordinance applies to hiring and firing
"I DON'T believe I've ever been more confident of anything in my life, other than that I'm going to heaven when I die." Adrian said. He directed an afternoon rally in which 12,000 petitions were made available for distribution.
Blood drive makes goal
The KU Blood Drive made its goal of
drawing 700 points of blood as the door closed
wetly.
Alpha Delta Pi sorority and Triangle fraternity wrann the fraternity-sorority race for donating the most blood in proportion to their house's sizes.
Despite a shorter registration period this semester, more dpants were donated than ever before.
--that he had heard of a nationwide blood shortage. He said that he has donated blood.
Red Cross officials were assisted by volunteers from Panhellenic, the Interfraternity Council (IFC), Pershing Rifles, the black fraternities and sororites and Lambda Sigma honorary society in the three-day drive.
Monte Nighswenger, blood drive co-chairman, said that he was surprised at the number of students not in Panhelien or IFC who walked in and offered to help.
"They were told to come here and give blood instead of going to drill practice," he said.
NIGHSWONGER SAID that
approximately 60% of
voters will cast their
ballots on Saturday.
A four-time donor, Kay Wykert, Topeka junior, said that she gave blood because it was one way that she could help people and it did not hurt.
One incentive for donating blood is the promise of free blood for the donor and his family.
Ski Malinowsky, Ellis sophomore, said
The bloo! will go to the Wichita Regional Blood Program, a distributor of blood in
Hill said he would first determine whether grounds exist for an appeal. If so, he said a legal effort is "in inevitable if for no other reason than to have a court determination of how much one governmental entity can dictate to another."
TOPEKA (AP) — Norman Gaa, Senate major leader, was named Wednesday in a complaint filed in Shawnee County to remove the winker of leaving the scene of an accident.
Daniel R. Lykins, 31, Topake attorney, filed the complaint against Gaar, R-Westwood. Lykins said the legislator was responsible for 17侵犯 near the intersection of 170 and 1470.
RICHARD AWTREY, an evangelist, said he had prepared petitions seeking the recall of Jack Shannon, Connie Peters and others to be commissioners who voted for the ordinance.
practices of county government offices within the city limits.
Attorney claims Kansas senator left car accident
Ghaar told a Kansas highway patrolman he
dared a bump during the incident and said he
did stop about a mile down the road to in-
form him about pickup. Ghaar said he found no
damage.
Lykins contends the truck Gaar was
burned bumping his car and then scraped the
hose.
"I think they made a very deterrimental decision and I think this is the only way to do it."
situations," he said. "It seems like they have no concern for the moral values of the citizens."
ADRIAN SAID his group would remain apart from any drive to recall the commissioners, calling the move political and moral issues are the basis of his involvement.
Casado said he favored the referendum drive but did not think the three commissioners deserved to lose their jobs because of their vote.
Awtrey said he hoped to begin distributing his petitions today or tomorrow.
Menninger calls jail cruel
Meninger a psychiatrist and author of several books including "The Crime of Punishment," spoke to a conference sponsored by the Kansas Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
TOPEKA (UPI)-Karl Meninger, chairman of the Meninger Foundation, yesterday told a conference on Kansas prisons that the corrections system must stop perpetuating cruelty and vengeance in attempting to deal with criminals.
"What I am saying is putting people into prison to help them control themselves is one thing," he said. "But to put them in jail must make them sorry or to get vengeance is wrong."
Meninger said that in almost every case he has studied, an adult offender was subjected to violence and cruelty as a child. He said his theory is that every child repays the beatings he gets sometime later in his life.
Menninger said that punishing criminals is giving people the false idea that prisons control crime. He called prisons inhumane, but he didn't a way to make prisoners better persons.
Menninger said the idea of retaliation has been with mankind since the ancient civilizations of the Middle East. He said the biblical "eye for an eye" concept originated in Mesopotamia as a legal code. One eye was used to deter or putting out someone else's eye.
He suggested that authorities stop using prisons as retaliation against wrongdoers, and find a way to deal effectively and humanely with offenders. Otherwise, he said the prisons merely continue mutual retaliation.
"You don't destroy aggression if you keep
you in line with your worth," he said.
"Somebody has to lava it down."
The conference, which drew attendance from across the state, runs through Friday with workshops and panels on medical services, minorities and women and the political aspects of a proposed new medium security prison.
Recently Menninger testified before a legislative committee and proposed to reduce overcrowding in prisons by releasing inmates who have committed crimes against property.
Participants included William Nagel of the American Foundation Institute on Corrections in Philadelphia; John Conrad of the Academy for Contemporary Problems of Law and Public Policy; and Justice of the National Clearinghouse on Criminal Justice Planning of the University of Illinois.
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