Wednesday, Aug. 28, 1985
Nation/World
University Daily Kansan
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Sodomy ban to be appealed
United Press International
DALLAS — The man who filed suit to abolish Texas' sodomy law said yesterday that he would ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholding the statute that bans homosexual sexual conduct.
In 1979 Donald Baker, a Dallas computer service worker, charged that a state law banning homosexual conduct was unconstitutional. Yesterday he said an appeal would be filed "as expeditiously as possible."
He said he was both appalled and encouraged that the appellate court ruling Monday was based on moral judgments, not legal precedents.
"What we find encouraging is that they laid aside legal reason and decided to base their decision on 700 years of moral tradition," Baker said. "I think this is going to ignite a response not only in the gay community, but other minority communities, that a decision of this magnitude would be based on moral tradition rather than on the law."
The 5th Circuit voted 9-7 Monday to reverse the ruling of a Dallas federal judge, who had said the law banning oral and anal sex was unconstitutional because it violated privacy.
"In view of the strong objection to homosexual conduct, which has prevailed in Western culture for the past seven centuries, we cannot say that (the Texas law) is totally unrelated to the pursuit of implementing morality, a permissible state goal," the judges said.
Live Aid money waiting to travel
United Press International
LONDON — Live Aid concert organizer Bob Geldof conceded yesterday that only a portion of $60 million raised by the global show to help famine-ravaged Africa had been spent, but he defended the slow approach.
Geldof said less than $7 million had been spent out of the $60 million raised by the July 13 twin concerts in
Philadelphia and London and the accompanying worldwide telefon.
He said 154 trucks had been bought to cart food to western Sudan. Live officials said the rest of the money is earning interest in bank accounts while officials decide how to use it.
Geldof, 23, leader of the Irish rock group Boomtown Rats, told reporters that Live Aid organizers don't want to go on a spending spree.
"We are not going to be foolish about how we are going to spend the money." Geldof said.
He said most of the money would be spent on long-term development projects to help Africa become self-sufficient in food production.
"It reminds me of the film with Richard Pryor," Geldof said, referring to the recent film "Brewster's Millions," in which a man tries to spend money as fast as possible.
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