University Daily Kansan / Monday, November 13, 1989
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Katherine Hockenbarger, 8, is anti-abortion.
March
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sider whether it will hurt politically or not," Phelps said, "Some issues are too fundamental.
Colleen Kelly-Johnston, of the Women's Equality Coalition, in Wichita, said the abortion issue would be a litmus test for political office holders.
"If you are not firmly and unequivocally pro-choice, you will no longer be tolerated in our government," she said of politicians. "We are the majority, and we are prochoice. You will hear us, or you will be out of a job."
Several state politicians were at the march to advocate choice.
"For years I felt rather lonely in the Legislature and in my position," said House Minority Leader Marvin Barkin of his pro-choice voting record. "Today I no longer feel lonely."
Barkis, D-Louisburg, encouraged the marchers to continue to advocate abortion rights during the legislative session but urged them to keep the issue in perspective.
"Don't be single-issue," he said. "Stretch out and help us with the issues of Kansas."
State Sen. Marge Petty, D-Topeka, said her experience with health care issues had solidified her support for abortion rights.
"The fundamental right to choose belongs with the woman and her doctor and not the Legislature," she said.
March Coordinator Marty McLaughlin said yesterday's march was the genesis of a political fight to keep abortion legal.
is asexual, whose gender is other than male or female or who wishes to support the group's goals. The goals include providing a forum for people to discover and explore ways of making connections in a free free of pressure to be sexual
"Let the battle begin," she said.
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Toby
Toby said the group was a source of support for asexual people and people with non-traditional gender identification
He said more than two dozen people subscribed to the newsletter.
Toby said that many people were hung up on defining him in terms that he did not fit into and that people could not accept that he did not consider himself male or female.
He said when he was trying to have a meaningful conversation with someone, many people got stuck on the subject of gender.
"People think I have an identity conflict because they are confused about who I am," he said. "People think that I have a sexual dysfunction because they can't imagine having romantic relationships without sex."
Toby believes that he can be just as intimate or intense as a sexual person but he achieves intimacy in ways other than sex.
"I know the warmth of a bug, the pleasure of a caress, and the comfort of a handclasp," he said. "I don't think that everybody ought to be asexual. I don't think there's anything wrong with people's sexuality. I do think there is something very wrong with people imposing their sexuality on other people who do not share it."
This reminds him of a quote he heard from his grandmother.
Toby said he would like people to be more tolerant.
"Your right to swing your arm ends where my nose begins," he said.
Because he thinks people are intolerant, Toby is protective of his religion.
"I don't know that God put me here for any specific purpose or that God had any set goal he wanted me to achieve," he said. "I think God put me here and put everybody else here because God wanted to see what we would do."
There are three components in Toby's life that are of central importance to him: spiritual, intellectual, spiritual. He believes all three are related.
"I would say that my interpersona, relationships, for example, are strongly affected by my values which are from a spiritual source." he said.
Education is a priority in Toby's life. He is working toward a master's thesis in social sciences and is in a doctoral program at the University. His goal is to receive a Ph.D.
"I enjoy learning. I enjoy discoverer-
ness in finding out how things work." he
said.
Toby said he eventually would like to work with people and continue doing this.
He said that he had a good intellect and that it didn't matter whether it was acquired genetically or from God.
"The fact is that I have it, and the way that I use it I consider to be partly personal gratification — I don't like being bored—and partly a sense of fulfillment of making proper use and not wasting a gift that God has given me," he said. "And at the same time, that maybe some are some that I need for other people. I don't know how I would separate those strands out."
Toby said his four dogs and two cats were his family
cats were his family.
Toby's first love is a dog named
Whiskers, which, Toby said, is the most unlikelest-looking animal he has ever seen. He has had Whiskers for 12 years.
"He looks like he was designed by a committee and nobody could agree on what kind of animal they were making," he said.
Toby's friends describe him as a caring person who loves animals and children.
Barbara Retke, owner of Retke Kennels, Lecompton, said Toby had been bringing his dogs to her dog obedience classes for about two years.
"In a class with the dogs, it doesn't matter who you are." she said.
Retke said Toby sacrificed a lot for his animals and has been know to bring his cat to class wrapped around his shoulders.
Toby likes being different, as everyone does. Retke said.
"He will say something in class and he is brilliant," she said. "He'll make some observation and you will make sure you're not prepared to answer him."
Toby's love of children prompts him to babysit for Wilma Segura of Lawrence. Segura said that Toby was sincere and intelligent and that her children always asked her if Toby could come over.
Toby said he had worked with children since he was in the eighth grade.
He said children were more open to accepting him than adults, but he has taken great strides in his work.
"For me, it is just if there is a connection there that we are focused on something that is important to me, and we are all doing something that is meaningful," he said. "It doesn't matter how old the other people are. It doesn't matter what gender they are or what species they are."
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