July 12, 1996 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7517 union members support a balanced would reflect on the positives about ceremony, unprecedented, where a budget, 87 percent support welfare re- the United States over this weekend, naval ship, a big naval ship, 956 feet of form, and 78 percent support tax cuts but spend a little time thinking about naval cargo ship, was being named for families with children, and those this amazing vote that we just had, our after an army sergeant. The first one percentages are higher than the gen- last vote today, on the 12th of July, de- took place in San Diego where the U.S. eral public. feating a phony recommit bill with in- Naval Ship Randall Sugart was named, So union members on average sup- structions to study homosexual, quote, with his mother and father and his wife port the fundamental reforms we have marriage, unquote, when that study is presiding, and that was on May 13—ex- been trying to enact back here in going ahead anyway. So 30 Repub- cuse me, Jefferson’s birthday, April Washington over the last year at a licans, kind of threw—well 29 threw a 13—and then on July 4, the second com- greater percentage than the rest of the vote in this direction and joined Mr. missioning of the U.S. Naval Ship Gary American public. GUNDERSON so that they will be able to Ivan Gordon. Both of these army ser- So why are the labor bosses attack- have begging rights not to have Act Up geants won the Medal of Honor, fulfill- ing incumbent Republicans? Why have and other radical homosexual groups ing to the letter of the scripture St. they targeted incumbent Republicans try and wreck their town hall meetings John 15:13, greater love than this no for defeat as part of a concerted effort with rude demonstrations, and the one has that he give his life for his by the National Democratic Party to Democratic vote did not shift that friends. A biblical translation: that regain control of the House and Sen- much, 133 for the phony recommit and they lay down their life for another. ate? Well, it is very simple. They have 118 to back up—or, excuse me, only 65— They begged to have their helicopter a vested interest here. They do not let me back up; 53 voted against Demo- crew get the authority to put them want to see government downsized be- crats, that phony motion to recommit, down at the crash site of CWO Michael cause that would mean the waning or and that jumped up to 65 going the Durant that ended up saving his life the loss of power and influence for other way and saying that they will go and giving up their own lives. On the those very same labor union bosses. out on a limb for homosexual marriage. night of October 3 the film was so bru- So I think it is very important for The final vote is, in this Chamber, 118 tal, a videotape on CNN, that they the average American working men Democrats in spite of the 2-day debate stopped running it by midnight because and women to realize that we are doing going with Clinton, that they are not of people crying and calling in. The our utter best back here in Washington going to sign off on homosexuals get- film, the videotape, was so brutal. to protect their interests and to create ting married civilly, although a few These two Medal of Honor winners, the a better future for America’s families renegade Christian denominations that copilot and I got to meet his widow, because we are not working for the are splitting in pieces will go ahead Willie Frank, down there at Newport labor bosses, we are working for those and go through a mock marriage cere- News at the commissioning of the Gary American families, for those working mony, but 118 Democrats joined Clin- Gordon, the two door gunners, Tommy men and women, and they are the peo- ton and say no way. The one Independ- Fields and William David Cleveland. ple who are the bosses. ent from Vermont, 65 Democrats and We saw their bodies being hacked apart So with that, Madam Speaker, I ap- only one Republican, Mr. GUNDERSON, by the crowds, desecrated, dragged preciate the opportunity to stress that that is 67 people today and 2 voting through the streets, objects stuck in point and follow up on the comments present, approve of homosexual mar- their gaping dead mouths. It was a made by the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. riage. There were 23 not voting; that is pretty rough scene, the roughest Amer- HOKE]. not unusual for a get-away Friday, al- icans have seen since Vietnam, Korea, f though I noticed in the Democratic list World War II, and now we have these 2 beautiful days, Jefferson’s birthday U.S.S. ‘‘GARY GORDON’’ here at least 3 Democrats that were participating in the debate right up and fourth of July, when as long as The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under through recommit and the final pas- these ships are at sea and they have in- the Speaker’s announced policy of May sage vote, which was only a 5-minute vited the families, the skippers of the 12, 1995, the gentleman from California vote followed immediately thereafter, two ships, they will be crewed by civil- [Mr. DORNAN] is recognized for 60 min- and they ditched, I will give them the ians, to come on board at any time. utes as the designee of the majority benefit of the doubt, jump in a car and I saw them invite Gary Gordon’s two leader. speed off to National Airport or Dulles beautiful children, 8-year-old Ian and 5- Mr. DORNAN. Well, Madam Speaker, to get out of town. But it looks very year-old Brittany, to come on board I guess it is clear for the whole world suspicious. any time to see this massive ship sit- to see there will not be an hour special So there is the vote: 23 absent, 2 ting next to our newest supercarrier, order by the Member from Massachu- present, 67 with only one Republican, the U.S.S. Stennis, named after a U.S. setts followed by my special order. Mr. the sole Independent who usually votes Senator who was alive when the ship FRANK told me earlier in the week that in caucuses on the other side of the was commissioned, got to see a ship he was going to critique my point of aisle, and 65 Democrats saying homo- with his name on it when he is alive, personal privilege from this well on sexual marriage is OK. On our side 224 the biggest moving object on the plan- June 27, and I said, ‘‘Well good I’ll be Republicans out of 225 voting, and 118 et Earth. there to critique your hour with my Democrats, for a total of 342, say no These two big ships sat there, the hour,’’ because I said I would keep fo- way to homosexual marriage. Stennis and the Gary Gordon, and Gold- cused on the truth and I was not going So, it looks like my opening remarks en Knight or Special Forces paratroop- to let go of this crude attempt which in the well June 27, when, as I recall, I ers came in, one from each service with we saw again last night late and on the said: American flags flying off their para- floor this morning and early afternoon Mr. Speaker, I now move out into the chute gear, and landed. There was a to brand anybody who thinks there is evil mind fields of political correctness small parade of World War II vehicles something wrong with homosexual be- alone, but I pray and hope not alone on that went up the ramp onto the Gary havior as a bigot, as a hater, and, as this uncomfortable issue of homo- Gordon, which will be a prepositioned Mr. CANADY of Florida pointed out, sexuality. Well, it looks like I am not ship with enough armored vehicles, they added about 15 more sleazy words alone. Fifteen days later, on the 12th of backup vehicles, Humvees, trucks, that we could have spent all day long July, 1996, 342 souls have joined me tankers, supplies, ammunition to sup- taking peoples’ words down to contest. with varying degrees of commitment to port a third of the division. I would like to tell any people that principle and Judeo-Christian ethics. A full Army brigade will be ready to came to visit us in the gallery today, Now to that positive note: On July 4, go at sea anywhere in the world to pro- through the Chair, that I will return to I had the honor of being invited by the tect Americans or American interests, this subject after I do something very families of Americans who lost their and M. Sgt. Gary Gordon’s name; I vis- positive and upbeat to relate what I fighting men in the alleys of ited his grave last November 5 or No- was privileged to behold on the Fourth Mogadishu on October 3 and 4, 1993, not vember 4, remember as the day Rabin of July, and I would hope that people quite 3 years ago. It was the second was assassinated, and I stood at his H7518 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE July 12, 1996 grave with my son, Mark, and told Maine, unloading his truck, probably about his new life in the Army arrived Mark, beneath us are the remains torn so proudly talking about how he was regularly. apart of this handsome, tough, dedi- looking forward to going to Virginia to ‘‘On the day I turned 16, I sat in my cated 33-year-old Army Delta Force watch his daughter-in-law christen the grandparents’ living room and watched sergeant, and I said, ‘‘And like Jesus at Gary Gordon. as his motorcycle pulled into the drive- 33, he was torn apart giving his life for I looked up at the ship. I told this to way, my palms sweaty on my freshly the literal life of Michael Durant and Carmen later. I told her it was prob- ironed dress.’’ others.’’ ably the Irish in me, but I looked up at You will recall when I read her beau- Well, he has a wife about as beautiful the ship, its massive side, and at the tiful letter to the editor of Newsweek as they come, reminded me of my own railing, and I pictured Gary and his magazine, she mentioned another vehi- beautiful wife when she was a young dad, with his armor, on it, the two of cle of Gary’s, how he was so proud of Air Force wife, and I punched out of them looking down at Carmen so his red pickup down at Fort Bragg, two jets, and she wondered if she was proudly, watching her deliver these where the Delta Force is going to have a father for our five stirring words. headquartered; and when he would young kids. Carmen says, ‘‘My daughter Brittany come home after a hard day of training But Carmen had such dignity. Before speaks of the photograph.’’ Then she he would pull into the driveway, and he she broke the champagne bottle on this says, ‘‘These treasures are a comfort to and Ian, then 5, and Brittany, then 3, almost-thousand-foot ship named after my children and a source of pride, but would run out to hug their handsome her Gary, she said these words, and if more important, Gary’s children can daddy. she got through it, I get through it. see and feel these reminders of their fa- Here he is on a motorcycle in Car- July 4, Newport News, shipbuilding ther to keep him close. In much the men’s driveway. ‘‘A few hours of talk, a Newport News, Va, the naming cere- same way, the ship that we christen quick first kiss in the rec room, and mony for U.S. Naval Ship Gordon, T–A– here today, the USNS Gordon, gives us Gary left to go back to his base many K–R, 296; that is its formal number. faith that Gary’s spirit will go forward, miles away. So began our slow dance of For you Navy buffs out there I found his ideals and his beliefs honored by love, one that would give us so much in out what it means. Nobody knew. It those who know of him, and the life he so short a time. We had five summers took me all day. T means crewed by ci- so willingly gave.’’ and winters together, the births of a vilians, A means auxiliary, K means By the way, both the Medal of Honor son and daughter setting a rhythm to such sweet time. cargo because the C is used for cruis- winners were born in Lincoln; Lincoln, ‘‘On Sunday mornings when Ian was ers, and R means rapid response. Nebraska, a little town, the very soul of America, that is Randy Shugert’s still so small, Gary would fill a baby b 1530 birthplace; and Lincoln, Maine, where mug with watered down coffee, folding Here are Carmen’s beautiful words: Gary’s dad died a few days ago. a section of the newspaper to fit Ian’s ‘‘Thank you for that kind introduc- ‘‘The very first time I laid eyes on chubby hands, the two of them would tion, and the opportunity to be with Gary Gordon was the second month of sit together quietly, turning the pages you today. I would like to tell you my 13th summer. I was staying with and sipping from their cups.’’ I watched my wife do that with our about Gary. Just behind a small door my grandparents in rural Maine, Lin- in his bedroom closet, my son Ian has grandkids. She calls it ‘‘coffee talk.’’ coln. Every week we made a trip into ‘‘Gary’s love for Brittany was just as stored the treasures dearest to him: town for supplies. One hot afternoon, strong. Every day when he arrived The uniforms his father wore, the can- in front of Newbury’s department home from work Brittany would run to teens he drank from, the hammock he store,’’ it is still there, and I saw it, meet him, his big hands scooping her slung in so many corners of the world, madam Speaker, just in November up and rubbing her bald head where they are all there; the boots that took when I went up to look at Gary’s grave. baby hair had yet to grow. We never his dad through so many deserts, jun- By the way, there is a big monument knew when these times would be inter- gles, so many parachute jumps now at the end of the street, filled with doz- rupted by a day that brought Gary lace up around Ian’s small ankles. All ens of names, I counted them all and home with his head shaved, anticipa- these things are piled neatly together recorded it for my record, from the tion in his voice, and a timetable for by a little boy’s hands and sought out Civil War, the War Between the States; leaving.’’ during quiet times. a big memorial for World War I, my fa- By the way, Madam Speaker, we ‘‘My daughter Brittany,’’ and keep in ther’s war; an even more massive me- never hear about the Delta Force suc- mind they are both sitting in the front morial and placards in front of the lit- cesses, or how many tragedies have row, ‘‘My daughter Brittany keeps a tle veterans’ building for World War II. been averted over the years, terrorist photograph of her daddy next to her Unlike a lot of wealthy American tragedies, hostage takings that were small white bed, the big 8 by 10 of Gary cities, my hometown of Beverly Hills thwarted before they took place. All smiling straight through to her. It is has not one that I know of, certainly that must remain secret in Gary’s unit the first thing she packs whenever we not a memorial; but killed in action in Fort Bragg until some day, far in leave home, and the first thing she un- fighting for freedom for strangers in the future, 30, 40 years from now, when packs when she arrives anywhere.’’ Laos and Cambodia and Vietnam, doz- his grandchildren will probably learn of By the way, Gary Gordon’s dad, who ens of names from this tiny little town, his courage. felt very uncomfortable receiving the Lincoln, Maine. I will bet it is the same Carmen continues: ‘‘I never worried Medal of Honor from Clinton, both he in Lincoln, Nebraska, which I will visit when Gary left on a mission. As I and Randy Shugert’s father did not feel some day. There is that same Newbury cheerfully kissed him good-bye and that Clinton had done right by these store Carmen speaks of so movingly. waved confidently from my front Medal of Honor-winning sons, that he She says, ‘‘there, in front of porch, it never occurred to me to be did not understand the operation, did Newbury’s department store, I saw a afraid, because Gary was never afraid. not back them up with armor to rescue boy washing windows. You never forget My safe world was shaken in December the downed helicopters, did not back the first time that you see your first of 1989 with the invasion of Panama them up with enough wherewithal to love. I watched him as he worked, calm and the realization that my husband capture the warlord that they were and purposeful and quiet. Then he was in the middle of the fighting. pursuing; warlords. looked up at me, and I knew this was Along with other young mothers I have spoken to Gary’s father, as I no ordinary boy. This boy could win clutching infants, I sat in a darkened have spoken to Herb and Lois Shugert my heart. When he called my grand- living room and watched television many times. Gary’s dad died on the job parents for permission to take me out, news around the clock. Gary came the last day of June, 5 days before the he was turned down flat. ‘She is too back safely. One night when I told him naming ceremony for his son’s ship. He young,’ they told him. And so in the of my fears, he laid a gentle hand on died at the naming ceremony for his way that I was to find out was uniquely my cheek and said quietly, ‘Carmen, son’s ship. He died at the mill where he Gary, he set out to wait three years. don’t worry about things we can’t had worked all his life, in Lincoln, Faithful and sparsely emotional letters change.’ July 12, 1996 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7519 ‘‘I know that death often leaves us up to manhood. He said, ‘‘But Sarah, I May 2, just a few days before the com- with the haunting question: Why? I feel as though bound by chains to those missioning of Medal of Honor winner know why Gary died. He died because who fought for our independence,’’ re- Randy Shugart’s ship in San Diego, in he was true to his own code for living, ferring to the Revolutionary War. ‘‘I that rotunda, and I bet there is not trying to help someone else. Fear cannot break faith with them and the one-fifth, one-tenth, one-twentieth of would not have kept Gary from doing lives and fortunes they gave up for our the people visiting with us in the gal- what he needed to do, what he wanted freedom. but I also feel so drawn to lery that know Billy Graham said this, to do, what he had prepared all his life you.’’ Madam Speaker, because the major to do. There is rare strength in the And I do not know if Carmen Gordon dominant liberal media culture creed he shared with his comrades: I has ever seen the exquisite letter from blocked out his words. I happened to be shall not fail those with whom I Sullivan Ballou, or how he talked watching ABC that night. A silent clip serve.’’ about ‘‘some summer day, a cool breeze of him. Did not project his words Greater love than this no man has, will touch your cheek, and oh, Sarah, across America. He said in this rotunda Carmen. Sarah, know that as I.’’ that this Nation is on the brink of self- ‘‘Gary lies buried a few miles from b 1545 destruction. The United States of where I first saw him on that sunny America, that we love, is on the brink Maine morning. It is a spare and simple I meant to have Sullivan Ballou’s let- of self-destruction. No future for Ian or place, open to the weather, bordered by ter here today and put them both in. Brittany Gordon, because of discus- woods that change with the seasons. He So what I will do is put this again in sions like this one today on sanction- is not alone now is that corner of the the RECORD next week with Sullivan ing marriage for homosexuals. Unbe- cemetery. His father, Dwayne, who Ballou’s letter next to it so young lievable. died suddenly of a heart attack last Americans like Ian and Brittany, and I hate to follow something so positive week, was laid to rest alongside his those a little older now, trying to de- with something so negative, but I had son, not far from the papermill where cide what to do with their lives, will a hard time getting time to speak this Dwayne gave so many years of hard learn that in this big, wealthy, exuber- week, Madam Speaker. There are still work. A gentle, sometimes restless ant, wonderful country of ours, there mysteries around here in both parties wind bends the flowers and stirs the are men—and now a lot of women—who that I am trying to figure out. But here flags that are always there by Gary’s put on a blue uniform, a khaki uni- is a column from a man whom God put military headstone,’’ American Legion, form, a firefighter’s rugged clothing in a wheelchair for the rest of his life Veterans of Foreign Wars, ‘‘below the and give up their lives for us, and that with a civilian accident, brilliant psy- chiseled words ‘Beloved Husband and there are people in the Transportation chiatrist, sorry he does not agree with Father,’ and the coin of his unit, the Department, called the U.S. Coast me on people serving in the military Delta Force coin, and his beret etched Guard under the Defense in wartime, with HIV, but you cannot get some- into the 39-inch beautiful alabaster they will die trying to rescue us in a body to agree on everything and I still marble. hurricane like Hurricane Bertha, work- have not written to him and made my ‘‘I hope that some gentle wind will ing her way up the coast, and that in case. But Charles Krauthammer, hand- always guide this ship to sea, and keep my beloved Air Force, my dad’s be- some, vibrant, brilliant young student, her on a safe, steady course. And when loved Army—and he did love it—our in- I think at Yale, when he jumped in a that wind strokes, the cheeks of my comparable Navy and their soldiers at swimming pool, which cost my brother children lying in their beds at night, sea, our unparalleled in the department his two front teeth and has cost a lot of and Ian and Brittany ask me to tell of esprit and faithfulness, our U.S. Ma- people the rest of their lives in a wheel- them what course the USNS Gordon is rine Corps, that there are young men— chair, a tragic accident all too com- striking under the stars, I can tell and now women—all around this world, mon. In that wheelchair, most people them, she is on the same course their from Arctic and Antarctic snows to who hear his brilliance, sitting in on father chose, headed for distant shores, still jungles, trying to feed people in Washington Week in Review and answering the call of those in need.’’ oppressive heat of God-forsaken na- guesting sometimes on Nightline and Madam Speaker, a few years ago, tions in Africa. God does not forsake other Sunday shows, unless a camera September 1992 to be exact, when I was anything. Forgive me that cliche term. shot is very clear, you do not realize explaining why America should never And the 19 young men that died in the that his chair is a metal chair for life. elect a draft-dodger to be the Com- Khobar Barracks bombing or the 19 Charles Krauthammer gave up the mander-in-Chief, I read a letter on this that died with Gary Gordon, if you in- practice of psychiatry, I guess tempo- House floor of a young college profes- clude Sgt. Matt Rearson who was hit at rarily, to be one of the better writers, sor from a sister New England State of the headquarters 3 days after Gary one of the better sages, or what we Maine, the State of Rhode Island. His died, had been flying rescue missions in sometimes say, disdainfully, pundits or name was Sullivan Ballou. He was a for hours. I met a helicopter pilot at talking heads in this country, and I major. He died just a few miles from the christening of the Gordon who flew want you to listen to this column. here, due west out toward Dulles Air- 171⁄2 hours nonstop. His wife came up to Rush Limbaugh made reference to it port, at the first Battle of Manassas, me proudly. She had seen me read the the very same night that I told my wife what the North called First Bull Run, Sullivan Ballou. I had flown a flag for that afternoon, or she told me, read or just Bull Run, then. everyone in their unit who had been this on the House floor, and unfortu- The letter was to his wife, Sarah. It killed or injured on the roof of the Cap- nately Rush Limbaugh only quoted a was so beautiful I could hardly read it itol. As a matter of fact, on July 4, line from it. I think America should through. All of America became aware 1994, and Veterans Day, November 11, hear this July 5, Washington Post col- of it with the beautiful National Insti- 1993, I flew over 200 flags for everybody umn. I think everyone should hear it. tutes of Heritage, the NIH TV series of wounded or killed in Somalia. I will Charles Krauthammer. A President the Civil War. When it was promoted probably do the same next week for the for our time. The subheadline is a on public broadcasting they would send 19 that died in Saudi Arabia. quote from the article. ‘‘A large num- to people the onionskin reprint of Interesting. Nineteen killed in ber of Americans think their President Major Sullivan Ballou’s last letter to Khobar Barracks, 19 killed under Ur- crooked and yet ethically fit for the of- his wife, Sarah, and his two young gent Fury trying to rescue Grenada, fice.’’ boys. While Carmen was delivering and 19 killed on October 3 and 4 and Oc- ‘‘When the Gallup poll of June 18–19 here beautiful christening eulogy to tober 6 in the filthy alleys of asked whether the words ‘‘honest and Sergeant Gary Gordon, I thought of Mogadishu. trustworthy’’ apply to Bill Clinton, Sullivan Ballou’s letter to his wife. So young Americans do not have to Clinton lost 49 percent to 46. Two He died at First Manassas, and that be dispirited by tragic votes like the weeks later in another national poll. was the last treasure his wife had of one that took place today, that cause a same question, Clinton was losing 54 to him. He talked about how dearly he wonderful religious man like Rev. Billy 40. And when Gallup asked whether wanted to see his two young sons rise Graham to say, in that rotunda, on Clinton had the honesty and integrity H7520 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE July 12, 1996 to serve as President, Clinton won 62 to polling questions: ‘‘Do you think a er, they know that that is what they 36, a landslide bigger than Lyndon woman should have her choice to her want. Johnson’s 61’’ or, I might add, Nixon’s own reproductive freedom in a free I will say it again: Smaller govern- 60, with even more people, a bigger plu- country?’’ Yeah, yeah, yeah. ment. Clinton said that standing right rality, more people voted in 1972 than Do you think a baby should be three- up there at that beautiful lectern in in 1964. quarters delivered, its entire body out front of you. ‘‘A milestone of sorts,’’ of the birth canal and scissors stuck ‘‘Balanced budgets, less welfare, Krauthammer says. into the base of its skull and its little more jails. It is no accident that no one ‘‘A quarter century after Nixon, we brain sucked out, do you think we campaigns for national office as a lib- have achieved the normalization of should have that? Clinton just signed eral.’’ Nixonian ethics. A large number of off on that. They say, ‘‘Oh no. That’s Not quite true, Charles. A lot of peo- Americans think their President up in the air.’’ ple over here, you can see it in the vote crooked and yet ethically fit for the of- The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. today, 65 of them and the 1 independ- fice. GREENE of Utah). The gentleman will ent. Well, the Republican is a lame ‘‘Whitewater gets worse. 49 to 42 suspend. The Chair needs to remind the duck and about 5 of the Democrats are think Clinton is not telling the truth gentleman that he must refrain from lame ducks, maybe 10. So about 50 peo- about it. 46 to 44 percent think he did referring to the President’s personal ple are willing to go home and cam- something illegal. Filegate grows. 50 to character. paign that they are a flaming liberal 36 percent think Clinton knew about it Mr. DORNAN. Well, let us see how who wants homosexuals to have full all along, something he has explicitly rough Mr. Krauthammer gets here. marriage rights. I want the Chair to be advised, I am denied. All the while Clinton rides high ‘‘Anyone who can get away with it against rule XVIII applying to the ex- in the polls with a strong 56 percent ap- campaigns as a conservative. Clinton is ecutive branch. I am against Clinton proval rating.’’ campaigning as a conservative. Clinton and GORE getting the protection and Is that not his highest ever, Madam is proving that anyone with high intel- violating the separation of powers, but Speaker? ligence—and blank blank—can get ‘‘This is no Teflon presidency. This is I will respect it because we passed it away with it.’’ Velcro. Everything sticks to this man. here. But we did now know what we Gennifer Flowers, Paula Corbin Jones, were passing on. It was not debated. ‘‘Clinton, whose major presidential Whitewater, Filegate, et cetera, et That is for the decorum of this Cham- initiatives were gays in the military’’— cetera, but it does not matter. Expec- ber or so that this House naturally in Charles, that is an adjective. Homo- tations of presidential character have combat, particularly in this current sexuals is a fine word to use, Mr. fallen so low with Clinton that the peo- conference period, do not say disparag- Krauthammer—‘‘homosexuals in the ple believe the worst about him and ing things about the U.S. Senators in military, a stimulus package of more still want him right where he is.’’ here, but I can tear the face off any Su- Federal spending, a tax increase and ‘‘Republicans are at wits’ end’’—I preme Court Justice, or Mrs. Clinton, the nationalization of health care, now admit it—‘‘with frustration that as the which I have chosen not to do, or any is running for reelection as a moderate sordidness of this administration is of the cabinet people who are running conservative.’’ progressively exposed, Clinton suffers up $150,000 on travel cards flying all ‘‘In one of the most cynical and suc- little political damage. The American around the world with huge staff and cessful acts of election year reposition- people say—and Perot’s 19 percent getting massages in exotic hotels, I can ing in recent American history, Clin- claim it is a principle, 24 percent in tear up anybody except under rule ton has moved to the right on a dozen California, claim it is a principle—they XVIII in some strange flush of generos- issues. He’s for school uniforms and want clean government, but they obvi- ity, we added those two offices. It was curfews for minors. He’s for the V–chip ously don’t mean it.’’ never respected with George Bush, cer- and for victims’ rights. He’s for the ‘‘They don’t mean it about character, tainly Nixon was savaged in this well constitutional amendment on victims’ either. And the ultimate Republican for most of his career, Barry Goldwater rights. He’s for Megan’s law, ‘to not frustration is they don’t mean it about as a U.S. Senator received some rough have sexual predators, way more than policy, either.’’ moments here. But I will try and work 50 percent of them homosexual, being Again, I tell my fellow Americans, my way through it and next year in turned loose in a neighborhood.’ ’’ you bet I am frustrated. I thought we January try and take that out. Even if ‘‘He’s against homosexual marriage. were doing what you wanted us to do my friend Bob Dole is elected Presi- Having slashed the staff of the White for a year and a half. I was not in on dent, I will try and take out that rule. House Office of Drug Abuse by 80 per- the decisions to close down the govern- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The cent’’—this is all policy, so this is OK, ment. I knew that would backfire. Be- Chair recognizes the gentleman’s dif- Madam Speaker—‘‘by 80 percent, he’s cause I come out of the media. I won ference of opinion. However, both the now talking tough on crime. Having Emmys in my mid 30s. I know more Chair and the Speaker are constrained submitted a fiscal year 1997 budget about broadcasting, radio and tele- to follow the rules of the House as they with $200 billion worth of deficits as far vision, than any member of my party have traditionally been and are cur- as the eye can see’’—that is a and probably anybody on the other rently interpreted. Clintonian quote—‘‘he’s now for a bal- side. I knew how the media would spin Mr. DORNAN. You bet we are. And I anced budget.’’ this, with Smokey the Bear camp will begin to redact this statement, be- ‘‘Most brazen of all, having twice ve- guards at Yellowstone and Yosemite, I cause I think it does get tougher. toed welfare reform bills, he’s now the predicted it, going to the little shops ‘‘On policy, with few exceptions, champion of welfare reform. Three that sell beautiful little redwood and abortion being the most notable, the days before Bob Dole was to give a sequoia curios and saying to them, country is conservative.’’ Is that not a major speech on welfare, Clinton sud- ‘‘What do you think about this?’’ given? Even Ross Perot agrees with denly announced in a Saturday radio The whole Medicare thing. I could that. address his endorsement of Wisconsin’s smell it coming, how this would be ‘‘The American people say they want radical Republican welfare plan.’’ I do spun. You bet I am a frustrated Repub- smaller government, lower taxes, bal- not think it is so radical. lican at the current polling. But I am anced budgets, less welfare, more ‘‘Clinton aides have since been hard an optimist. It is not going to last for jails.’’ at work watering down what he said to long. That is what you all want up there in co-opt Dole. No matter. That’s for page ‘‘On policy with few expectations, the gallery. We know that, Madam 38, probably the B section. The Satur- abortion being the most notable.’’ This Speaker. Anybody who visits in the day speech of Clinton’s was page 1. Of is one where I disagree with Mr. gallery. Let me phrase that correctly. I course everyone knows that Clinton, Krauthammer. He looks at the wrong am not allowed to refer to you directly under the guidance of Dick Morris, is polling. He is too smart, he should real- in the gallery. Anybody who comes and merely positioning. But that doesn’t ize dirty-in/dirty-out. You ask phony joins us in the gallery, Madam Speak- matter.’’ July 12, 1996 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7521 b 1600 are still coming in, that I want to put issue of Chronicles Magazine, under the title The polls show that with these delib- in next week. ‘‘Sex, Drugs, & A Republican Party.’’ It will One from Marc Morano of Electronic be available June 15 at newsstands or people erate rhetorical moves to the center, can call 800–877–5459 for a copy. Clinton has risen significantly in the News Gathering, the reporter thanking me for doing the expose on Jefferson’s In my reply to Rep. Gunderson, I left out polls, 13 points on the question of one point. Rep. Gunderson alleged the secu- whether he reflects the values of the birthday, interestingly, the same day rity guards were stationed in the bathroom American people. Reflect he does, like we were commissioning one of those throughout the night. While it is true that a mirror. big ships for Medal of Honor winner the guards checked the bathrooms periodi- Now remember, these are Randy Shugart, 2,000 wild partying ho- cally, they were not permanently stationed Krauthammer’s words. They are kind mosexuals, hundreds of them almost in there until the lights kept repeatedly of cynical. I do not know if I go along naked down here in our biggest, most going out. beautiful taxpayer-owned and operated I also want to point out that I made my with this, but he sure made me think. whole account of the ‘‘Cherry Jubilee’’ avail- He says, ‘‘He reflects you like a mirror. auditorium, the Andrew Mellon Audi- torium, directly across the street from able to every major news outlet immediately The Republicans are confounded,’’ yes. following dance in April. I faxed CBS News, ‘‘They were elected in 1994 on a de- the actual star-spangled banner. The 30 ABC News, UPI, Washington Post, Wall tailed conservative agenda that they by 40 foot flag that flew up at Fort Street Journal, USA Today and many others, then tried to enact an era of sincerity McHenry up at Baltimore is on the but not one outlet even looked into it. If it and zeal for which they have been ever north wall of the National Museum of weren’t for your efforts, Armstrong Wil- paying in the polls.’’ American History, and directly across liams, and the talk radio medium, this whole Liberal networks taking these polls. the street is this homosexual Cherry story would have faded away. Dirty in, dirty out. Jubilee. Unbelievable. He says I want Once again, thank you for your crusade on to thank you for being the only Mem- this issue. May God bless you! Krauthammer continues, ‘‘Clinton’s Sincerely, ber of Congress with the courage to political genius,’’ that is a com- MARC P. MORANO. pliment, ‘‘is discerning and then be- come forward. coming whatever the American people No, no, no, I am not the only one STATEMENT BY JAMES C. DOBSON, PH.D., want him to.’’ now, Mr. Morano. Marc Morano says FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT, FOCUS ON THE ‘‘They want tough welfare reform, America needs new BOB DORNANS. Well, FAMILY but they do not want to hurt anyone. at least on the vote today there is 342 We feel strongly that as Christians, we are They want to abolish racial pref- of us, including, that is, 118 Democrats. mandated to love and care for people from erences, but they want to save affirma- I am not alone on this any longer. all walks of life, even those with whom we tive action. They want to balance the This marriage thing was a defining disagree or whose lifestyles we believe to be budget but will crucify the politician moment, as my pal CLIFF STEARNS immoral. Thus, Focus on the Family has no who tampers with Medicare,’’ which is from Florida called it today. He said interest in promoting ‘‘hatred’’ toward ho- busting the budget. my full uncensored report of the Cher- mosexuals or any other group of our fellow ry Jubilee weekend will appear, I did human beings. We have not supported, and In other words, Americans are not se- will never support, legislation aimed at de- rious and neither is Clinton. On every not know this, in the July 1996 issue of priving gays and lesbians of their constitu- great issue they say yes and no, Clin- Chronicles Magazine, Madam Speaker, tional rights—rights they share with every ton, the man that smoked but did not a solid mainstream Christian magazine citizen. More than that, we want to reach inhale, lives and breathes, yes and no. under the title ‘‘Sex, Drugs and the Re- out to homosexuals whenever and wherever He talks right and governs when he can publican Party.’’ Uh-oh. It will be we can. to the left. He talks tough and governs available mid-month at newsstands or However, we do strongly disagree with the soft. He is, in short, the perfect Presi- people can call their 800-number. efforts of homosexual activists to redefine marriage and the family, qualify for adop- dent for our time, and if he cuts a few In my reply to Representative GUN- tion, and promote homosexual practices in DERSON I left out one point, and I did blank-blank ethical corners, so what? the schools. We also oppose any attempts to Well, Madam Speaker, how much put Mr. Morano’s reply in, I hope. Mr. equate a sexual lifestyle with immutable time do I have left on this rainy hurri- GUNDERSON alleged that the security characteristics such as race in determining cane Bertha Friday afternoon? guards were stationed in the bathroom who is deserving of special legal protection. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- throughout the night. While it is true We see no evidence that homosexuals as a tleman has 15 minutes remaining. that guards periodically checked the class are oppressed and powerless today. Ac- Mr. DORNAN. First I would like to bathrooms, they were not there until cording to recent surveys, the average homo- put in the RECORD as a follow-up to my the lights kept repeatedly going out. sexual earns $55,430 per year, compared to June 27 point of personal privilege let- Just made a correction. $32,144 for heterosexuals. Homosexuals are ters from conservative groups across not only well-paid, but also highly educated: I want to point out that I made my 59 percent of homosexuals hold college de- this country. I have been around long whole account of the Cherry Jubilee enough that they are all close friends. grees, compared to just 18 percent among all available to every major news outlet Americans. If discrimination exists, it cer- The incomparable, steady as she goes, immediately following the so-called tainly doesn’t appear to operate in education Dr. James C. Dobson, founder and dance in April. I faxed CBS news, ABC or employment. president of Focus on the Family, on news, UPI, the Washington Post, USA And when it comes to political clout, how the homosexual battle in our country. Today and many others, but no one can homosexuals claim to be underrep- I am not alone any longer, Madam even looked into it. If it were not for resented? Virtually every political and cul- tural objective of the gay and lesbian com- Speaker, for my long-time friend of 20 your efforts, courageous Armstrong years, Phyllis Schlafly, speaking for munity is being achieved today. Federal Williams’ efforts and talk show hosts funding for AIDS research and treatment is her great Eagle Forum, and she is also and all the media, that is Rush and all the director of a coalition group to only one example: The Department of Health the rest, this story would have faded and Human Services allocates 37 times more keep our pro-life values in the Repub- away. Thank you for your efforts on dollars per AIDS death than it does per lican platform, she sends a beautiful this issue. Thank you. God bless you. heart-disease death. This is true despite the letter. Put that in the RECORD, too. fact that heart disease kills more Americans Beverly LaHaye, great husband Tim ELECTRONIC NEWS GATHERING, than cancer, tuberculosis, strokes, diabetes LaHaye, good friend of mine. Beverly McLean, VA, June 11, 1996. and AIDS combined. LaHaye for the largest woman’s orga- Memorandum for Congressman Robert K. Even more illustrative, homosexual activ- nization in America, Concerned Women Dornan. ists have distorted public-health law so that for America, sends a letter of support. From: Marc Morano. a woman who’s been raped is not permitted The conscience on Capitol Hill from a I want to personally thank you for being to know the HIV status of the man who small building over in the northeast by the only member of Congress with the cour- raped her. My point is that the homosexual commu- Union Station. What a fighter, what a age to come forth on the ‘‘Cherry Jubilee’’ events. America needs more Bob Dornans! nity is hardly a disadvantaged, powerless mi- brave heart he has, Paul M. Weyrich. Thank you for your eloquent defense of me nority in need of special rights. Instead, it is He sends me a letter. and my reporting of the event. rapidly becoming a privileged class that bit- All five of these letters I want to put My full, uncensored report of the ‘‘Cherry terly attacks those who dare criticize its po- in, as there are about 10 more, and they Jubilee’’ weekend will appear in the July 96 litical objectives. Our opposition to that H7522 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE July 12, 1996 community’s political agenda is not an ex- Ignoring what America wants, homosexual world, are there. The boots that took his dad pression of hate toward homosexual individ- activists have pushed their agenda into our through desert and jungle now lace up uals, but one of social justice and common schools, our media, and our public policy. around Ian’s small ankles. They are all piled sense. Sanctioned by the National Education Asso- neatly together by a little boy’s hands and Finally, homosexual promiscuity is a dead- ciation, now many sex education classes in- sought out during quiet times. ly practice, shortening life and creating clude segments that portray homosexuality My daughter Brittany keeps a photograph painful psychological problems. We regret as a perfectly healthy, normal lifestyle. And of her daddy next to her small white bed, the the political influences that would result in mainstream TV sitcoms reinforce this view. big 8 by 10 of him smiling straight through vulnerable children being taught to perceive Gay activists call this ‘‘progress.’’ But to her. It is the first thing she packs when this deviant behavior as just another equally such ‘‘progress’’ takes a heavy toll on Ameri- leaving home, and the first thing she un- healthy choice about one’s sexuality. The ca’s youth. One former homosexual, Michael packs when she arrives anywhere. Bible teaches us that all sin leads to death, Johnson, explained the effect it had on him. There are comfort to my children. And a and homosexuality, like heterosexual prom- ‘‘One of the things that had an impact on me source of pride. But most important, Gary’s iscuity, is an abomination in the eyes of is those in our society who would tell me it’s children can see and feel these reminders of God. okay to be [homosexual],’’ he said. And what their father to keep him close. that did to me as a young person struggling In much the same way, the ship that we EAGLE FORUM, with the issue was not only to confuse me, christen here today—the USNS Gordon— Washington, DC. but also to ultimately lead me to pursue the gives us faith that Gary’s spirit will go for- DEAR BOB: As you prepare to respond to desires that God would have me reject.’’ Al- ward, his ideals and his beliefs honored by Representative Steve Gunderson’s remarks though Mr. Johnson has left the gay lifestyle those who know of him and the life he so through a point of personal privilege, I want and now runs an ex-gay ministry in Alaska, willingly gave. to share with you several verses from the his years living as a homosexual have quite The very first time I laid eyes on Gary book of Ezekiel that I hope will give you en- literally cost him his life. He has been diag- Gordon was the second month of my thir- couragement and peace. nosed HIV positive. teenth summer. I was staying with my ‘‘The word of the Lord came to me: ‘Son of grandparents in rural Maine. Every week we man, speak to your countrymen and say to America’s youth deserve better than this, and they certainly deserve a better model made a trip into town for supplies. One hot them. When I bring the sword against a land, afternoon in front of Newberry’s Department and the people of the land choose one of their than a congressional defense of the out- rageous behavior that took place at the store, I saw a boy washing windows. You men and make him their watchman, and he never forget the first time that you see your sees the sword coming against the land and Cherry Jubilee. I urge you to keep fighting the good fight for the sake of the next gen- first love. I watched him as he worked, calm blows the trumpet to warn the people, then and purposeful and quiet. Then he looked at if anyone hears the trumpet but does not eration. Sincerely, me, and I knew this was no ordinary boy. take warning and the sword comes and takes This boy could win my heart. BEVERLY LAHAYE, his life, his blood will be on his own head When he called my grandparents for per- Chairman. ** * If he had taken warning, he should have mission to take me out, he was turned down saved himself. But if the watchman sees the flat. She’s too young, they told him. And so, PAUL M. WEYRICH, sword coming and does not blow the trumpet in the way that I was to find out was unique- Washington, DC, May 23, 1996. to warn the people and the sword comes and ly Gary, he set out to wait three years. Congressman BOB DORNAN, takes the life of one of them, that man will Faithful and sparsely emotional letters Longworth House Office Building, be taken away because of his sin, but I will about his new life in the Army arrived regu- Washington, DC. hold the watchman accountable for his larly. On the day I turned 16, I sat in my DEAR BOB: I want to commend you for hav- blood. grandparents’ living room and watched as ing the courage to stand to answer Congress- ‘‘Son of man, I have made you a watchman his motorcycle pulled into the driveway, my man Steve Gunderson. for the house of Israel; so hear the word I palms sweaty on my freshly ironed dress. A It has never been my view that it is our speak and give them warning from me. When few hours of talk, a quick first kiss in the I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will business what lifestyles people privately rec room, and Gary left to be back at his surely die,’ and you do not speak out to dis- choose. That is between themselves and God. base, miles away. So began our slow dance of suade him from his ways, that wicked man But when individuals, especially elected of- love, one that would give us so much in so will die for his sin, and I will hold you ac- ficials, insist that their lifestyles be vali- short a time. dated by society that is where I draw the countable for his blood. But if you do warn We had five summers and winters together, line. the wicked man to turn from his ways and he the births of a son and daughter setting a That Rep. Gunderson, who openly flaunts does not do so, he will die for his sin, but you rhythm to such sweet time. On Sunday will have saved yourself. his homosexuality, would lend his name and mornings when Ian was still so small, Gary ‘‘Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares office to any event where there is immoral would fill a baby mug with watered down the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the behavior is outrageous. That Gunderson coffee. Folding a section of the newspaper to death of the wicked, but rather than they would be supported in this endeavor by ele- fit Ian’s chubby hands, the two of them turn from their ways and live.’’—Ezekiel ments of the Republican party is reprehen- would sit together quietly, turning the pages 33:1-11. sible. and sipping from their cups. Gary’s love for Bob, thank you for your commitment to When any society through its leadership Brittany was just as strong, Every day when the truth and your willingness to stand up gives its stamp of approval to actions which he arrived home from work, Brittany would for what is right. You are a real American are biblically condemned, it has started run to meet him, his big hands scooping her hero! down the road to perdition. up and rubbing her bald head where baby Faithfully, No so called good intentions (i.e. raising hair had yet to grow. We never knew when PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY. money for AIDS) can mask the blatant at- these times would be interrupted by a day tempt by those in leadership positions who that brought Gary home with his head CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA, seek an imprimatur for their immoral behav- shaved, anticipation in his voice and a time- Washington, DC, May 29, 1996. ior. Hon. ROBERT DORNAN, table for leaving. I stand with you as you call the nation’s I never worried when Gary left on a mis- Longworth House Office Building, House of attention to actions which are self destruc- Representatives, Washington, DC. sion. As I cheerfully kissed him goodbye and tive. waved confidently from our front porch, it DEAR CONGRESSMAN DORNAN: The 600,000 You know well you will be condemned by members of Concerned Women for America never occurred to me to be afraid. Because those who condone immorality for what you Gary was never afraid. My safe world was want to thank you for your unfailing deter- do. So much the greater your eternal reward mination and leadership in protecting the shaken in December of 1989 with the invasion will be for standing with the truth. traditional family against the assault of the of Panama and the realization that my hus- Sincerely, homosexual agenda. band was in the middle of it. Along with AUL WEYRICH. Over the last decade, we have see homo- P other young mothers clutching infants, I sat sexual activism flood into mainstream soci- in a darkened living room and watched tele- ety. No longer are homosexuals satisfied REMARKS BY MRS. CARMEN GORDON AT THE vision news around the clock. Gary came with a ‘‘live and let live’’ philosophy. They NAMING CEREMONY FOR USNS ‘‘GORDON’’, back, safe. One night when I told him of my want society to endorse and encourage their JULY 4, 1996 fears, he laid a gentle hand on my cheek and behavior—a behavior most Americans deem Thank you for that kind introduction and said quietly, ‘‘Carmen don’t worry about immoral. the opportunity to be here with you today. things we can’t change.’’ A recent Wirthlin poll, commissioned by I’d like to tell you about Gary. I know that death often leaves us with the CWA, found that 66 percent of American Just behind a small door in his bedroom haunting question ‘‘Why?’’ I know why Gary women believe it’s important for govern- closet, my son Ian has stored the treasures died. He died because he was true to his own ment officials to promote traditional family dearest to him. The uniforms his father code for living—trying to help someone else. values over tolerance for ‘‘alternative life- wore, the canteens he drank from, the ham- Fear would have kept Gary from doing what styles.’’ mock he slung in so many corners of the he needed to do, what he wanted to do, what July 12, 1996 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7523 he had prepared all his life to do. There is Most brazen of all, having twice vetoed going to do in the other Chamber, in rare strength in the creed he shared with his welfare reform bills, he’s now the champion the other body? That is anybody’s comrades: ‘‘I shall not fail those with whom of welfare reform. Three days before Bob guess, given the difference in our de- I serve.’’ Dole was to give a major speech on welfare, Gary lies buried only a few miles from Clinton suddenly announced in a Saturday fense authorization bill. where I first saw him on that sunny Maine radio address his endorsement of Wisconsin’s I am for ethically asking young re- morning. It is a spare and simple place, open radical (Republican) welfare plan. cruits, ‘‘Are you a homosexual?’’ They to the weather and bordered by woods that Clinton’s aides have since been hard at will not hear of it. I am for taking the change with the seasons. He is not alone now work watering it down. No matter. That’s for almost 1,000 people, that is a regiment, in that corner of the cemetery. His father page 38. The Saturday speech was page 1. who have the AIDS virus and are on, Duane, who died suddenly of a heart attack Of course, everyone knows that Clinton, under the guidance of Dick Morris, is merely we hope, a slow, not a fast path to last week, was laid to rest alongside his son, death, that are lucky to be Americans not far from the paper mill where he gave so positioning. But that too doesn’t matter. many years of hard work. The polls show that with these deliberate and have access to the greatest medical A gentle, sometimes restless wind bends rhetorical moves to the center. Clinton has system in the world that has not been the flowers and stirs the flags that are al- risen significantly in the polls—13 points—on destroyed yet, and I want to give them ways there on Gary’s military headstone, the question of whether he reflects the val- over to the VA so that other people do below the chiseled words ‘‘Beloved Husband ues of the American people. not have to deploy over and over un- and Father,’’ and the coin of his unit pressed Reflect he does. Like a mirror. The Repub- licans are confounded. They were elected in fairly because these people broke the into white stone. I hope that same gentle 1994 on a detailed conservative agenda that UCMJ, with the exception of two cases wind will always guide this ship to sea and they then tried to enact—an error of sincer- that are wives, military wives, who her keep her on a safe and steady course. And when that wind strokes the cheeks of ity and zeal for which they have ever been philandering husband contaminated paying in the polls. my children lying in their beds at night, and like they would bring TB home. Clinton’s political genius is discerning and They want to restore abortion to Ian and Brittany ask me to tell them what then becoming whatever the American peo- course the USNS Gordon is striking under ple want. They want tough welfare reform, military hospitals. That is a contested the stars, I can tell them that she is on the but they don’t want to hurt anyone. They item between the conferences. Lots of same course their father chose: Headed for want to abolish racial preferences, but they issues. We do not know what is going distant shores, answering the call of those in want to save affirmative action. They want to happen over there for sure. need. to balance the budget, but will crucify the Let me tell Members what I did not politician who tamper with Medicare—which [From the Washington Post, July 5, 1996] get to in my point of personal privi- is busting the budget. lege. I entered in the RECORD, but I did A PRESIDENT FOR OUR TIME In other words, they are not serious and (By Charles Krauthammer) neither is Clinton. On every great issue, they not show it. Madam Speaker, you see When the Gallup Poll (June 18–19) asked say yes and no. Clinton, the man who this thick magazine as big as a Read- whether the words ‘‘honest and trustworthy’’ smoked but didn’t inhale, lives and breathes er’s Digest, as large in pages and bill- apply to Bill Clinton, Clinton lost 49 percent yes and no. ing bigger in size? Hard core pornog- to 46 percent. (Two weeks later in another He talks right and governs (when he can) raphy in it, too. I did not realize that. poll, same question, Clinton was losing 54– left. He talks tough and governs soft. He is, All I looked at was the camera, the in short, the perfect president for our time. 40.) And when Gallup asked whether Clinton thickness. It is called Steam. has the honesty and integrity to serve as And if he cuts a few ethical corners too, so what? It is available around this country to president, Clinton won 62–36, a landslide big- tell homosexuals where to have sex ger than Lyndon Johnson’s. Mr. DORNAN. Now, what I did not with strangers in public parks. Where Expectations of presidential character have time to get to—I feel like taking have fallen so low with Clinton that the peo- my coat off and throwing it across the to go in our national parks, where to ple can believe the worst about him and still table—what we did get to take, thanks go in your city parks, and there is a want him where he is. to a former U.S. attorney from Geor- European version. Steam did not come Republicans are at wits’ end with frustra- up in the debate today, nor did this tion that, as the sordidness of this adminis- gia, BOB BARR bringing this on the floor, is this letter from Lambda Legal from the Advocate magazine, which tration is progressively exposed, Clinton suf- used to be a newspaper. It is now the fers little political damage. The American Defense. I would recommend Lambda people say—and Perot’s 19 percent claim it is Report, which is a Judeo-Christian eth- main homosexual magazine in Amer- a principle—they want clean government, ical report on Lambda stuff. I want to ica. It is all pornographic classified ads but they obviously don’t mean it. read again to set the scene here. The to get people to go to leather bars and They don’t mean it about character. And— key line highlighted in red on why we engage in bondage, discipline, things the ultimate Republican frustration—they debated so long Hawaii’s attempt and that I cannot mention on the House don’t mean it about policy either. floor, sadism, sodomy, masochism, On policy, with few exceptions (abortion Hawaii is not far, thousands of miles being the most notable), the country is con- away. That is only physically. I guess things involving craziness, I mean real servative. The American people say they if Virginia across the Potomac were craziness. This is their classifieds that want smaller government, lower taxes, bal- doing what Hawaii is doing or Mary- they have now spun off from the main anced budgets, less welfare, more jails, etc. land surrounding the district on three magazine, so they can do their first It is no accident that no one campaigns for sides, then it would have been a dif- interview with President Clinton. Of national office as a liberal. Anyone who can ferent debate. But oh, let Hawaii do course, he lets them down. He does not get away with it campaigns as a conserv- interview with them face-to-face. He ative. And Clinton is proving that anyone their vacation things and have all these homosexual marriages. mailed in his answers. with high intelligence and no scruples can But the current Advocate magazine get away with it. But listen to this again from the Clinton, whose major presidential initia- Lambda Legal Defense Fund, and I has a Clinton interview, the President tives were gays in the military, a stimulus have debated them on Crossfire: ‘‘Many of the United States, bragging about he package of federal spending, a tax increase same-sex couples in and out of Hawaii has done more for homosexuality than and the nationalization of health care, now are going to take advantage of what all of the 41 preceding Presidents, from is running for reelection as a moderate con- would be a landmark victory. The Washington to George Bush, all servative. wrapped together. Nobody is arguing In one of the most cynical—and success- great majority of those who travel to ful—acts of election-year repositioning in re- Hawaii to marry will return to their that, but he is going to back up the cent American history, Clinton has moved to homes in the rest of the 50 States ex- vote of the Republicans and 118 Demo- the right on a dozen issues. He’s for school pecting full legal recognition of their crats today who voted, if the Senate uniforms and curfews for minors. He’s for the unions,’’ and they will darn well try goes along with it, for no homosexual V–chip and the ‘‘victims rights’’ constitu- and get legal services, tax dollars, your marriages having to be recognized in tional amendment. He’s for Megan’s Law; tax dollars through a corporation we the other 49 States if Hawaii goes bal- He’s against gay marriage. should have shut down, to make you listic. Having slashed the staff of the White In the classifieds here, which they House Office of Drug Abuse by 80 percent, pay for their battles back in these he’s now talking tough on drugs. Having sub- States to make the other 49 recognize spun off so they could do these main- mitted a FY ’97 budget with $200 billion defi- their so-called Hawaiian marriage. stream interviews—I am sorry, I am cits as far as the eye can see, he’s now for a Now, remember, it only passed 342 to just sorry. This is like a visit to balanced budget. 67, 2 present, 23 absent. But what is it Dante’s Inferno. I would recommend H7524 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE July 12, 1996 kids in high school read his Inferno, But get this, and I am going to ask me, and that is the Republican leader- read Milton’s Paradise Lost and avoid unanimous consent to put it in the ship, that they are going to ask back this defilement that is mentioned both RECORD, here in my—at the beginning for the wife pin. in Romans and the New Testament and of my point of personal privilege, here This is the First Armored Division. in Leviticus, which was ridiculed and is the excellent new conservative mag- That is not a wife pin, folks. The wife attacked today in the face of Moses up azine that I held up called the Weekly pin, the spouse pin and their I.D. card, here. I hope guests when they come Standard, started by a good conserv- since this bill is passed, I will make here always recognize the 23 lawgivers ative Fred Barnes and Bill Crystal, Ir- sure that happens. here, some of them without such ster- ving Crystal’s great son. Here is the Pedophilia is going to be debated in ling characters, like Napoleon, but he cover issue, Pedophilia Chic. I held it the spring, and it is sad, just like ev- was a good lawmaker, that they are all up on the floor. Unfortunately, the erybody was shocked today. profiled except one, Moses’ direct face camera, I held it out so far it cut my Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous con- looking right down on us, the man of arm off and no one ever did see the sent to include for the RECORD the full Exodus. title. By the time I brought it back to article from the Weekly Standard. And When you attack Leviticus, you at- the lectern, it was down. Pedophilia these other letters I already have per- tack the Torah. The Torah is the first Chic is a terrifying article. Get the mission. Thank you, and have a great five books. It is Genesis, Exodus, Le- RECORD of today, not through my of- weekend. viticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. That fice, please, through your own Con- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without is the basic thing that so many people gressman, I would ask people watching objection, the gentleman may submit died to hide at the height of the terror us today, Madam Speaker, and read those materials and extraneous other of Nazi Germany, was to protect and this article by a lady, Mary Everstat. documents for the RECORD which are hide the Torah. She brings out that the New Republic consistent with House rules and proce- Now look at this. I predicted on the dures. floor today, Madam Speaker, that we and then the New York Times have been running articles inching toward There was no objection. would be arguing about pedophilia on The material referred to is as follows: this floor in 2 or 3 years. Here is a pedophilia. PEDOPHILIA CHIC book, a new book with an in-your-face Here is a guy with an unusual name, title. Look at this, Mr. Speaker. Cor- sounds like a contract player at MGM (By Mary Eberstadt) ruption. It is all about youth, teen- in the bad old days. Trip Gabriel, T-r- When most Americans hear the word agers, pedophilia. That is what it is all i-p. Trip Gabriel writes in a front-page ‘‘pedophile,’’ they usually think of men like the self-described ‘‘child-molesting demon’’ about. Sickening stuff. report in the New York Times that ‘‘Some on-live discoveries give gay Larry Don McQuay, who was released from a I have got a 14-year-old grandson. He prison in East Texas in April and driven to is tough. He watches television. He is a youths a path to themselves.’’ San Antonio to begin a closely supervised, good student, an ‘‘A’’ student, gateway b 1615 but nonetheless semi-free, new life. And program student, as is his younger sis- when most Americans think of men like They are on the verge of suicide. So ter. She just flew out alone to L.A. and McQuay roaming the streets, they react had great adult conversations on the if a child molester is making contact much as did the outraged, screaming-in-the- plane going out to Los Angeles, her with a male child in a homosexual way, streets, placard-carrying citizens of San An- first big trip on her own, 14, a soccer if we break that connection and bust tonio. About the mildest thing said by one of star, also an A plus student as is the the molester, the young male child them was ‘‘I sure hope there will be more in- threatens to commit suicides. dictments’’ to send McQuay back to jail— younger sister. It looks like hopefully I this, from the chairman of the State Board have raised good kids that are such I will say it again. The heterosexual young lady, and there is no hetero- of Pardons and Paroles, under whose aus- conscientious parents. All my pices McQuay was released. The local vic- grandkids are just working so hard, the sexual young men being contacted by tims-rights groups were less restrained. As television is monitored, they under- women. There are no women predators the president of one such group put it, in a stand and love history, a lot, thank to speak of. The number is infinitesi- straddle between threat and hope, ‘‘In this heavens, their grandfather has been mally small or nonexistent. There is no city, he’s not going to be safe’’—thus sum- able to pass on some of my love for this lesbian, no heterosexual woman who marizing neatly the vigilante desire that country. I would not show these bright prays on children. We cannot even find most parents, when contemplating a figure like McQuay, would doubtless second. oldest of my 10 grandkids. I am count- statistical data. This is basically a male homosexual In addition to a spate of high-profile cases ing one before it has arrived around like McQuay’s, the past few years have also Christmastime. But of my five grand- problem, and the child molesters of the witnessed an ongoing public obsession with daughters and grandsons, this is not for heterosexual variety are usually child abuse in any form; a Congress that, at their eyes, but it is out there and that drunken disgusting stepfathers who are the urging of the White House and Justice is why we are going to discuss dismissing their wife and going after Department, has toughened the penalties for pedophilia and I am going to amend her daughter from another marriage. child-pornography trafficking; and Bill Clin- what I said during the debate today. It Take out that chunk and take out the ton’s signing of the constitutionally com- is not going to be in 3 years. We are numbers and prorate these cohorts, plicated Megan’s Law, which makes it im- since there is only about three-quar- possible for those once convicted of child-sex going to be debating pedophilia, Mr. offenses to move anonymously into an Speaker, on this floor in the spring and ters of a percent of lesbians in the unsuspecting neighborhood. do you know why? Because the country and 1 percent male homo- And yet a funny thing happened on the Internet and that Supreme Court is in sexuals, and the rate of male way to today’s intense fear and loathing of our face saying that child molesters pedophilia, homosexual pedophilia on Chester the Molester. For even as citizens can make contact and, get this, fine makes is 11 to 1 over heterosexual around the country have sought new ways of tuning, make contact with young pedophiles. keeping the McQuays of the world cordoned males. If a child molester is on the This article is terrifying because it off from the rest of us, and even as the public says it is chic, it is in vogue to slowly rhetoric about protecting America’s children Internet making contact with a young has reached deafening levels, a number of en- girl, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, and he is found inch our way toward saying, well, what lightened voices have been raised in defense out, does anybody suggest the young are we going to do, we have to teach of giving pedophilia itself a second look. girl who is a heterosexual is going to homosexuality in a positive way for After all—or so some of these voices have commit suicide if she continues her our high schools or these young emerg- suggested—what if pedophilia is in fact a vic- dialogue with this guy or if it is broken ing people will commit suicide. tim-less crime? What if teenagers, and even off? I mean she will commit suicide? Of I received a letter today from a Mem- children, are more in control of their emo- course not. This guy should be busted ber’s male significant other, who has a tions, their bodies, their sexuality, than the spouse pin and a wife I.D. card. There rest of us think? What if sexual relations and the young girl should be told to go with adults are actually ‘‘empowering’’ to back to her homework and, if she has are three of them in this House, two on the young? What if pedophilies and would-be abusive or neglectful parents, make it that side and one on this side. In this pedophiles are in fact victims themselves— some way the States, not the Federal debate today, if we won, and we won exploited by the cunning young people they Government, can address that problem. big, 342 to 67, the leadership promised befriend? July 12, 1996 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7525 There are also the matters of civil liberty. scrawny and white-chested, posing like pin- peared within weeks of the Calvin Klein ad Is it fair to send people to jail for owning, ups, their cK Clavin Klein jeans partially un- blitz. At the time, as readers may recall, the trading, and obsessively consuming child done. . . . That was really groundbreaking public fear of pedophile predators was being pornography when no one is really injured by advertising.’’ fanned by the discovery of yet another form such practices? And what about the notion of The talent, too, was cutting edge. The ad of outreach: the home computer. In the pre- an ‘‘age of consent’’—isn’t it an anchronism, campaign was shot by the well-known pho- ceding months, one 16-year-old boy had run in this age of adolescent sexual precocity? tographer Steven Meisel (who is credited, away with bus tickets provided by a chat- Shouldn’t it be lowered to a more realistic among other work, with the photos in Ma- line ‘‘friend’’; similar cases of solicitation standard? Say, to fourteen? Thirteen? donna’s Sex book). Meisel in turn made an- had become the subjects of FBI investiga- Twelve? other personnel choice of celebrity interest. tions; and Congress, heavily pressured by in- Once upon a time, the reader losing sleep As the Washington Post reported later in terest groups, had turned its hand to devis- over questions like these would have had to September. ing legislation that would prevent the ex- travel to Times Square, or the local porn When President Clinton railed against ploitation of minors via cyberspace. All in shop, or perhaps the nearest branch of the those notorious Calvin Klein ads . . . he all, it seemed an unlikely moment to suggest North American Man-Boy Love Association probably didn’t know that the off-camera that those selfsame chat rooms and bulletin (NAMBLA). But no longer. Now he need only voice in the television versions belonged to a boards had their bright side. But that is ex- subscribe to the right stylish magazines, the gentleman named Lou Maletta—aka the actly what the N.Y. Times managed to do in right cutting-edge publishers, and be famil- Leather Daddy. Since Calvin Klein pro- a front-page report by Trip Gabriel called iar with the work of the right celebrated au- claimed loudly in his defense that there was ‘‘Some On-Line Discoveries Give Gay Youths thors. It is hard to know what to make of no pornographic intent to the ads, Maletta a Path to Themselves.’’ these piecemeal attempts—which amount to was certainly an interesting casting Though ‘‘a handful of high-profile cases’’ nothing so elevated as a movement—to re- choice. . . . had ‘‘dramatized the threat of on-line preda- write what most of the rest of us persist in Lou Maletta, 58, is founder and president of tors,’’ wrote Gabriel, kids themselves shared thinking about adults whose sexual interests the New York-based Gay Cable Network, no such fears of the screen. In fact, ‘‘all the run to kids. Call it the last gasp of a nihilism which produces ‘‘Gay USA,’’ a news show; young users interviewed’’ for the Times piece that has exhausted itself by chasing down ‘‘In the Dungeon,’’ ‘‘about the New York ‘‘said the threat was exaggerated, adding every other avenue of liberation, only to find leather scene’’; and ‘‘Men & Films,’’ which that they would not be likely to meet blind- one last roadblock still manned by the bour- features excerpts from gay porn videos, and ly with an on-line acquaintance.’’ In fact, if geoisie. Call it pedophilia chic. for which Maletta’s Leather Daddy character the kids had any fear at all, it seemed to be quite the opposite—that their lines of com- CALVIN KLEIN’S LEATHER DADDY was created. The next day, the Post was forced to pub- munication would be shut down by party- For laymen, the best-known example of lish a correction: At the last minute, and for pooping parents and legislators. Recent leg- this phenomenon was last summer’s much- reasons unclear, Klein himself decided to re- islation, in particular, this reporter discov- reviled and ultimately abandoned ad cam- place ‘‘Leather Daddy’’ with a professional ered, ‘‘has made some ‘gay youths’ fearful paign for Calvin Klein jeans. In fact, as the voice-over actor. Interesting though that de- about the future of on-line discussions.’’ record will show, when measured against cision may be—at the very least, it does And fearful they should be, if cyberspace is other recent soundings on the subject of seem to imply an awareness on someone’s really the lifeline the Times made it out to adult-child sex, that ad campaign itself ap- part that there was such a thing as going too be. A ‘‘distraught youth’’ in California was pears—pun intended—mere child’s play. But far—it is not nearly as significant a choice ‘‘on the verge of suicide’’ until reaching one first, a review of the facts. as that of commissioning Maletta in the first ‘‘Daniel Cox, 19, a regular on an Internet Just about a year ago, the company place. What that choice signified was what chat channel dedicated to gay teenagers’’ at launched a series of print and television ads any sophisticated viewer would already have 3 a.m. Cox ministered to the California that were, according to almost every critic discerned—that the ads had an obvious man- youth, and the next day ‘‘the young man was who reviewed them, bizarrely and boy sexual subtext. back on line and doing O.K., Mr. Cox said upsettingly reminiscent of child pornog- The second interesting fact about the out- [emphasis added].’’ This apparently happens raphy. Even for a public made blase´ by expo- come of the Klein affair was the inadvert- all the time. As another of these selfless do- sure to Calvin Klein’s many other provoca- ently revealing rationale put forth by com- gooders put it—one Michael Handler, ‘‘17, a tive images, the seediness of this latest ef- pany officials. The main idea seemed to be moderator of the Usenet news group for gay fort proved just too much. There were, first, that teenagers are more sexually sophisti- youth’’—‘‘We want everybody to be who they the images themselves: teenage models— cated than many adults want to believe. are and be happy and not kill themselves be- most looking bored, with legs spread apart ‘‘The message of the cK Calvin Klein jeans cause they feel they’re some sort of abomi- and underwear revealed—lounging around current advertising campaign,’’ as a full- nation.’’ semi-dressed. There was also the matter of page ad in the New York Times and else- Another teenager, Ryan Matsuno, ‘‘typed setting. The cheap wood paneling and shag where informed the public, was that ‘‘young out a plaint of loneliness’’ one night, only to carpets were supposed to suggest a suburban people today, the most media savvy genera- receive ‘‘more than 100 supportive E-mail rec room—another visual convention, it tion yet, have a real strength of character letters’’ within the next few days—letters seems, of the child-porn genre. and independence. They have very strongly that ‘‘gave me courage’’ and ‘‘the initiative By common consent, the scripts for the TV defined lines of what they will and will not to go through with telling my mother,’’ ac- ads—which ran only in New York before do . . .’’ It was this very strength, officials cording to Master Matsuno. Still another being withdrawn—were even more compel- reiterated, that proved discomfiting to the teenager, we are told, used his computer ling evidence of the campaign’s indebtedness public at large. ‘‘The world,’’ as Klein him- skills to outwit that rarest of things in to the pornographic canon. In those ads, an self told an interviewer shortly after the ads cyberspace, an actual predator: ‘‘Dan Mar- offstage male voice seemed to goad the were pulled, ‘‘is seeing a reflection of what’s tin, a gay 17-year-old in Fresno, Calif., said young models into responding through a really going on.’’ he talked for a year on line to a man claim- combination of wiles and special pleading. In a sense, Calvin Klein got it exactly ing to be 21. Occasionally the conversation ‘‘You take direction well—do you like to right. All that groundbreaking advertising turned to sex. When Mr. Martin suggested a take direction?’’ the voice asked a girl. The was indeed reflecting something real, albeit meeting, the man refused and confirmed Mr. lines to boys were smuttier still. ‘‘You got a something very different from what the Martin’s suspicions that he was really mid- real nice look. How old are you? Are you expost-facto explanations claimed. What dle-aged. ‘After I confronted him, I never strong? You think you could rip that shirt those ads did mirror was something else: the heard from him again,’ Mr. Martin said.’’ off of you? That’s a real nice body. You work In sum, according to Gabriel, ‘‘sites for gay idea that non-adults (particularly if they are out? I can tell.’’ And so on. and lesbian youth are the source of some of boys) are appropriate sex objects for adults Though girls and boys alike appeared in the most stirring stories in cyberspace.’’ (particularly if the are men). the ads, it was clear to any savvy viewer These touching dramas, the Times report Contrary to what some critics implied at that the boys, rather than the girls, were the continued, are social-worker approved—cer- the time, Calvin Klein and his team did not main event. For one thing, there was noth- tainly by one Frances Kunreuther, director invent the idea of using man-boy sex to grab ing really new about the girls. As a critic for of ‘‘a social service agency for gay teenagers public attention; they merely submitted it Adweek remarked at the time, ‘‘Girls have in Manhattan,’’ who says, ‘‘I think the to a commercial plebiscite. Middle America, been objectified forever. It’s not shocking, Internet is a step in the right direction.’’ At to the surprise of the fashion moguls, voted sad to say.’’ (It is particularly unshocking in the same time, though, the social workers the campaign down. But Middle America has a Calvin Klein jeans campaign; after all, it is also ‘‘cautioned that cyberspace could not only been one testing ground for revisionist now fifteen years since an underage Brooke substitute for face-to-face contacts.’’ But suggestions about pedophilia. Other, more Shields was used to suggestive effect.) wait: Aren’t face-to-face contracts exactly sophisticated venues have proved more will- No, what was new in this latest effort was what most people fear when they think of ing to give the subject a second look. the question of who those boys were posing kids in sex-saturated ‘‘chat rooms’’? Well, no for. As James Kaplan noted acidly in New ‘A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION’ matter. And no matter too, apparently, that York magazine, ‘‘What especially got to Consider an example from the New York anyone logging on as a teenager could be 17, many people was the images of the boys, Times, which, in an errie conjunction, ap- or 70—or 7. The only thing that matters, or H7526 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE July 12, 1996 so it appears from reporter Gabriel, is that Surreptitious filming of students, porno- And, of course, the hapless Bateman was ‘‘the electronic curtain is not a closet’’— graphic tape-making, pornographic tape-ed- also a victim of a society that forces homo- this, from one Reid Fishler, founder of an iting, pornographic tape-swapping with a sexuals to act furtively. When faced with the Internet site called the ‘‘Youth Assistance former student, pornographic reconstruction conservation of Exeter, where ‘‘only one in- Organization,’’ who is said to be 19. of homework videos: Not everyone prizes structor has come out,’’ Lane Bateman ‘‘A danger to his students, or only to him- hobbies like these in a boarding school stayed in the closet. And it was all that time self?’’ teacher, with or without that library of in the closet, it is argued here, that led to Another place willing to ask some hard- kiddie porn on the side. Certainly that was his taste for child pornography. ‘‘It’s not nosed questions about grownups who are sex- the view adopted at last by Exeter itself, healthy to be so secretive, but Lane never ually interested in kids is Vanity Fair maga- which fired Bateman within 24 hours of his felt secure enough at Exeter to come out,’’ zine. For the most part, its glossy pages arrest. Something of that view seems also to explains a friend who has long known of seem an unlikely territory on which to argue have been shared by federal district court Bateman’s interest in pornog- in earnest about anything—much less about judge Jose A. Fuste, who in January 1993 raphy. . . . ‘He’s heavy into fantasy. These anything as obscure as whether a high school sentenced Bateman to five years in prison sex movies are the legacy of the closet.’ ’’ teacher obsessed with child pornography was without parole for one count of possession In case the reader misses the point, Bate- in fact a misunderstood victim himself. and two counts of interstate shipment of man is also provided an opportunity to ex- Nonetheless, it was in a 1992 issue of Vanity child pornography—a sentence that, though pound on it himself. Fair that veteran reporter Jesse Kornbluth hardly the maximum allowed by law, was a Bateman says he purchased the material published what is probably the most heart- far cry from leniency. (Under a fourth count, that ultimately brought him down several felt and sympathetic portrayal of a con- forfeiture, Bateman was also forced to sur- years before he started teaching at Exeter, victed child-pornography trafficker yet to render his video equipment.) There was also when he was coming out of the closet and appear in expensive print. the influential fact that Bateman showed no wanted to make up for lost time. ‘‘For a few ‘‘Exeter’s Passion Play,’’ as the piece was remorse whatever for his behavior. As a re- years, you could buy anything, and I bought called, concerned the fate of Larry Lane (or port in the New York Times put it when the some films and books that featured young ‘‘Lane’’) Bateman, a tenured teacher at the sentence was announced: ‘‘He said he still boys,’’ he says. ‘‘For me, these pictures were elite Phillips Exeter Academy who was con- did not understand what was ‘so wrong’ aesthetic, not pornographic. I know people victed in October 1992 of possessing and about what he had done. ‘If I strangled a say, these images are despicable—how can transporting child pornography. The preced- child, if somebody had been hurt, if some- you think that? But the key point is that I ing summer, a police raid on his apartment body’s property had been destroyed, then identified with the boys, not the men. If had turned up 33 videotapes of child pornog- there certainly would be a victim,’ Mr. Bate- someone young had grabbed me when I was raphy. The police also found hundreds of por- man said ‘Where are the victims?’’’ that age and said, ‘Let me teach you some- nographic tapes featuring adults—that is to Where, indeed? It is that question that re- thing.’ I would have said, Sure.’’ say, men—and still other tapes made by Exe- porter Jesse Kornbluth sets out to answer, And here, as with the example of Calvin ter students on assignment from Bateman and the way he answers it will likely take Klein, we come to the real heart of that their teacher had spliced and doctored some readers by surprise. For the chief vic- pedophilia chic: It’s about boys. It is boys to his liking (for example, zeroing in on geni- tim of the Bateman affair, as it turns out, and boys alone who are seen as fair sexual tal areas). Finally, the police also found so- was not, say, Michael Caven, or the Exeter game. For if Bateman’s cache of child por- phisticated videotaping equipment, some of students filmed in the showers, or even all nography had featured little girls, rather which belonged to Exeter, later valued at be- those little boys who were somehow made to than little boys, it is unthinkable that he tween $200,000 and $250,000. perform in all those movies with titles like would have become the object of a sympa- As Bateman would later admit to the au- Ballin’ Boys Duo, Young Mouthful, and Now, thetic profile in the likes of Vanity Fair. thorities, he had been involved with child Boys? No, the chief victim of it all—perhaps That a teacher whose sexual tastes run to pornography for twenty years—buying it, even the only victim, if the story told in boys rather than girls could come to com- lending it, going out of his way to get it, and Vanity Fair is correct—appears to have been mand a cultural dispensation for that pref- above all, viewing it obsessively. Moreover, Bateman himself. erence—this, rather than the ‘‘legacy of the at least some of the people in his life were In the first place, or so at least closet,’’ would seem to be the ‘‘deeper mean- aware that he was deeply involved in pornog- Kornbluth’s essay makes clear, Bateman was ing’’ of the scandal at Exeter. raphy of some sort; the Vanity Fair piece it- a victim of his accuser, Michael Caven (alias Biased though it was in favor of Lane Bate- self cites at least two. But the question of Pappas). Caven, the reporter tells us, was a man, and much as it seemed to suggest that who knew what, and when, was mostly irrel- hustler, an alcoholic, a druggie. He exploited child pornography may be a victimless evant to Bateman’s criminal trial, which rich, older men (including, we are told, crime, the Vanity Fair piece at least stopped centered on four specific counts relating to Frank Caven, the successful owner of several short of endorsing either child pronography child pornography. That case rested largely gay bars who legally adopted his young sex or pedophilia per se. It is an amazing fact on a single witness named Michael Caven partner in a moment of drunken inspiration). that these omissions would come to seem (born Michael Pappas), a one-time student of In fact, throughout Kornbluth’s essay, not positively retrograde in light of an essay ap- Bateman’s from a high school on Long Island a kind or empathetic word appears for the pearing two and a half years later in yet an- who had now turned chief accuser and in- man who claimed to have been abused by other stylish, widely circulated magazine, formant. Bateman as a teenager. But there are, inter- the New Republic. Bateman denied Caven’s most damning estingly enough, many, many words from the A GOOD WORD FOR NAMBLA charges—that he had molested Caven from Pappas/Caven detractors, and Caven is de- The most overt attempt by a hip journal to the age of 16, and that he had taken porno- scribed by a former colleague in the bar busi- give pedophiles a place at the table came in graphic pictures of him as a legal minor. But ness as ‘‘a jerk and an egotist. He was media the form of a May 8, 1995, ‘‘Washington what Bateman could not deny was that in crazy . . . he loved to get his face in any rag Diarist’’ in the New Republic by Hanna the course of 1990 alone he had sent or given in town.’’ Bateman’s friends, he reports, Rosin entitled ‘‘Chickenhawk.’’ Ostensibly Caven more than 100 pornographic video ‘‘loathe’’ Michael Caven. ‘‘If he wanted to do inspired by a ‘‘riveting’’ documentary of the tapes, and that at least some of these tapes Lane a favor, he could have said, ‘Get help,’ ’’ same name about the North American Man- were child pornography. Bateman, for his one snaps, ‘‘Lane doesn’t deserve to have his Boy Love Association, ‘‘Chickenhawk’’ opens part, never denied having given Caven child life ruined.’’ with the following quote from the film’s pornography; he only denied having sent Second, or so it appears on this telling, star, a real-life pedophile named Leyland those particular tapes through the mail. Bateman was the victim of the ‘‘brutality’’ Stevenson: ‘‘He’s just like a flower in bloom. (‘‘I’m not totally stupid,’’ he explained at his and ‘‘frosty environment’’ of Exeter itself. He’s at that perfect stage, in which he is her- trial.) (This turn looks ironic, for under Kendra maphroditic. . . . He’s in that wonderful And there was more. According to a pre- O’Donnell, who was appointed principal in limbo between being a child and an adoles- sentencing memorandum submitted by the 1987, the school would seem to have entered cent—he’s certainly an adolescent, but he U.S. Attorney’s office, boys at Exeter had a progressive warming phase; it was under has that weird feminine grace about him.’’ been filmed in the showers and bedrooms O’Donnell, for example, that Exeter—which Stevenson, of course, is talking about a lit- without their knowledge, thanks to one of now boasts a Gay/Straight Alliance—invited tle boy. It is a quote intended to jolt the Bateman’s hidden cameras. ‘‘The boys,’’ the gay alumni to come and speak to the stu- reader, and no doubt for most readers it still memo noted, ‘‘are either wearing under- dents about their sexuality.) Surely Bate- does. Having already invited the reader to shorts, towels or nothing.’’ Also in the man’s firing was hypocritical; after all, we imagine a child as seen through the eyes of memo, according to the New York Times, are talking about Exonians, who in a pedophile, Rosin then proceeds to some- was the fact that Bateman spliced pieces of Kornbluth’s telling at least are a worldly- thing more avant-garde still: a chatty review the students’ tapes into pornographic films. wise and sexually sophisticated bunch. ‘‘The of man-boy love and of the North American ‘‘Mr. Bateman,’’ the Times reported, ‘‘dupli- idea that single male teachers might be ho- Man-Boy Love Association (whose informal cated tapes made by about 20 students for mosexual and ‘appreciate’ young men,’’ (he motto, as some readers may know, is ‘‘Eight class onto a master tape, giving each seg- writes of these preppies), ‘‘would not be a is too late’’). ment a name like ‘Blonde Zen Lad’ and ‘Belt soul-shattering revelation to Exeter stu- ‘‘Chickenhawk,’’ the author explains, ‘‘is Spanked.’’’ dents.’’ worth seeing’’ because it ‘‘succeeds, at least July 12, 1996 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7527 partially, in making monsters human.’’ mund White. The author of a number of en- White makes a final attempt to get to the Though it may be true that Leyland Steven- thusiastically received novels—Forgetting bottom of it by interviewing an actual son is ‘‘every mother’s worst nightmare,’’ it Elena, A Boy’s Own Story, and The Beautiful pedophile in a bar in Boston. is also true—at least true according to Room is Empty—White has also had a bril- This man, the author coolly reports, ‘‘has Hanna Rosin—that Stevenson and his fellow liant career as an editor and essayist. He has a lover of twelve (he met him when the boy NAMBLA members have gotten an unneces- worked at Saturday Review and Horizon, was six).’’ Far from the voracious predator sarily bad rap. ‘‘There are no steamy orgies’’ been a contributing editor to Vogue and so feared by the general public, however, our in the documentary, she notes dryly, ‘‘or House and Garden, and written for publica- pedophile could scarcely appear more ethe- bound-up boys languishing in NAMBLA’s tions ranging from the New York Times real. He is ‘‘thirty-six, dressed in faded den- basement.’’ NAMBLA itself, she casually ex- Magazine to Christopher Street., In 1980, a ims, his face as innocent and mournful as plains, ‘‘functions mainly as a support group number of his pieces reflecting on post-lib- Petrouchka’s. His voice was breathy and for fantasizers, with the requisite forums for eration gay life were collected into yet an- light, his manner anxious and almost hum- victim-bonding.’’ Like members of any other other critically acclaimed book called States ble.’’ Lest there be any last doubt of this group united by common interests, its rank of Desire: Travels in Gay America. man’s suitability for polite company, White and file have their humdrum clubby mo- On account of its historical timing alone— erases it with the ultimate compliment. ‘‘I ments; they hold roundtables (where they the book amounts to a city-by-city celebra- was,’’ he writes candidly, ‘‘strongly at- ‘‘hug and share persecution stories’’), solicit tion of gay life published on the very eve of tracted to him.’’ There follows a conversation in which the subscriptions, exchange ‘‘bulletins.’’ Not the identification of AIDS—States of Desire amorous adventures of White’s pedophile are only are these activities benign, it seems, remains a fascinating and retrospectively fondly recounted. White asks how the man but their propriety is enforced by the club it- poignant sociological document. But it is a met his present ‘‘lover,’’ and the pedophile self. ‘‘Group policy,’’ we are assured, ‘‘strict- work that deserves to be remembered for replies: ‘‘At the beach. He was there with his ly forbids contact with live boys or even il- something else as well: It is probably the most critically acclaimed piece of reportage mother. He came over to me and started licit pictures on the premises.’’ talking. You see, the kids must make all the Next, Rosin praises NAMBLA’s ‘‘bravery.’’ in which the taboo against pedophilia has been examined at considerable length and moves.’’ In case that point has been missed, ‘‘After all,’’ she writes, ‘‘it is still heresy White reiterates it a few lines later, this even to consider the possibility of the legit- judged archaic—a judgment that moreover passed virtually without comment from time asking explicitly: ‘‘Did your friend take imacy of their feelings.’’ Today’s pedophiles, the sexual initiative with you?’’ ‘‘Abso- she reminds us, live in especially unfriendly White’s admiring critics. Throughout most of this reflection, White studiously keeps to lutely,’’ Petrouchka affirms, adding, ‘‘I’ve times. Politically, things could hardly be been into kids since I was twenty-two and in worse; witness the tough language on child an Olympian ‘‘on the one hand this, on the other hand that’’ rhetorical monologue—in every case the kids were the aggressors.’’ pornography in the Contract with America. ‘‘What do you two do in bed?’’ White next which one hand, as in most such monologues, Even President Clinton, she notes sarcasti- inquires. There follows a graphic description, cally, ‘‘was cowed into taking a courageous consistently manages to get the better of the which the pedophile concludes on a mournful stand against ‘softness on child pornog- other. note. For there is, as it turns out here, at Pedophilia, White asserts at the outset of raphy,’ ’’ Yet NAMBLA, despite it all, con- least one problem with man-boy love that this discussion, is ‘‘the most controversial tinues pluckily on: ‘‘keeping all their activi- most readers may not have anticipated: issue’’ in the lives of many in the gay move- ties above board’’—even publishing their namely, that the kids are too loving. New York phone number. ment. It is also, the reader is led to under- A second writer who has explicitly ad- Just as the grownups of NAMBLA turn out stand, a terribly complicated subject. As one dressed the matter of men and boys, this to be more innocent than one might expect, gay man—ostensibly not himself a time adolescents, is Larry Kramer, author of the boys, for their part, seem to be far more pedophile—puts it in words that the author the hugely celebrated AIDS play ‘‘The Nor- sophisticated. As Rosin reasons, ‘‘it might quotes approvingly, ‘‘There’s no way to an- mal Heart’’ and of an earlier novel called even be that a budding young stud had the swer it [the issue of pedophilia] without ex- ‘‘Faggots (1978),’’ one of the classics of the upper hand over the aging, overweight ploring it. We need information and time for post-liberation gay genre. The comparison loner.’’ And how old does a boy have to be, in deliberation. There are no clear answers— between Kramer and White is particularly the Rosin/NAMBLA view, to qualify for who would provide them?’’ useful insofar as the two authors differ White is willing to try. ‘‘Those who oppose ‘‘budding young stud’’ status? Sixteen? Four- markedly in a number of important ways. pedophilia,’’ he posits, ‘‘argues that the ‘con- teen? Twelve? No? Well, how about ten? Kramer’s authorial perspective, as well as sent’ or seeming cooperation of an eight- One NAMBLA member in his 20s, an entic- his political persona (he is a well-known ac- year-old is meaningless.’’ On the other hand, ing blond with slits for blue eyes, describes a tivist and co-founder of the New York Gay ‘‘those who defend pedophilia reply that chil- sexual experience he had with a karate in- Men’s Health Crisis), have made him some- dren are capable, from infancy on, of show- structor when he was 10. ‘‘I came on to him. thing of an anomaly in his chosen circles. ing reluctance.’’ Similarly, ‘‘critics of I knew what I was doing. I felt very empow- Between the 1970s and the dawn of AIDS, at pedophilia contend that children are easily ered. I felt I controlled the relationship, a time when most gay figures were proclaim- manipulated by adults—through threats, which is a good thing for a kid. It dispels the ing the joys of post-Stonewall ‘‘liberation,’’ through actual force, through verbal coer- belief that adults are always in power in Kramer, for his part, was nearly alone in em- cion, through money.’’ Here again, the other such relationships. You know, I led him phasizing its dark side. ‘‘Faggots,’’ for exam- side is allowed the last—and longest—word: around. I was the one in power.’’ ple—a controversial book then and now— ‘‘Champions of pedophilia (and many other Well, boys just want to have fun—or, as the concerns the plight of a man looking for ho- people) argue that children are already ex- New Republic seems to have it, just boys mosexual love in the hedonistic heyday of ploited by adults in our society—they are want to have fun. It is ‘‘plausible,’’ Rosin Manhattan and Fire Island. Kramer includes bullied by their parents, kept in financial muses, that ‘‘a teenage boy [emphasis added] a number of scenes in which older men drug, and legal subjugation, frequently battered. might agree to sex with an older man.’’ flatter, and seduce teenage boys. Most And they have little legal recourse in at- Similarly, though she notes approvingly prominent among these is a 16-year-old tempting to escape punitive adults. . . . that, for example, the age of consent in the named Timmy, who is initiated into the high They can’t vote, they can’t drink, they can’t Netherlands is twelve, she nowhere advo- life at a party by a series of experienced men run away, they can’t enter certain movie cates changing the age-of-consent laws for and finally ‘‘devoured’’ by ten at one time. theaters, they can’t refuse to go to school, girls. And she certainly shies away from sug- In the course of this brutal description—one they can’t disobey curfew laws—and they gesting that the figure of the ‘‘budding of several in the book involving adolescent can’t determine their own sexual needs and young stud’’ might be interchangeable with boys—Kramer repeatedly invokes the appeal preferences. Pedophiles find it ironic that that of a ‘‘budding young slut’’—a phrase of Timmy’s ‘‘beauty,’’ his ‘‘teenage skin,’’ our society should be so worked up over the whose appearance would surely have in- his status as ‘‘forbidden fruit.’’ One by one, issue of sexual exploitation of children and curred the wrath of a good many New Repub- the men at the party succumb to Timmy’s so unconcerned with all other (and possibly lic readers. ‘‘Chickenhawk’’ itself, interest- charms, including even the most macho of more damaging) forms of exploitation. If ingly enough, passed almost without com- them all (‘‘the Winston Man’’), who finds anything, the pedophiles argue, sex may be the ment from those same subscribers. himself ‘‘excited in a way that he has not one way in which children can win serious con- been since’’ high school. KIDS WANT TO PLEASE YOU sideration from adults and function with them Timmy’s fate in the course of the book, it Actually, these latest attempts to manage on an equal plane; if a child is your lover, you should be added, is not a happy one. Is Kra- a good word for pedophilia are not quite as will treat him with respect.’’ [emphasis added] mer implying that such is the price paid for au courant as they first appear. Similar And where does our narrator locate himself decadence, or is there tacit empathy in his themes have been floated for years by a num- between these camps? ‘‘I am not in the busi- depictions of Timmy’s many would-be ‘‘fa- ber of self-described, self-consciously gay ness of recommending guidelines for sex with thers’’? It is left to the reader to guess. Much writers—and not only by those on the cul- youngsters,’’ he writes coyly, for ‘‘I simply less ambiguous, at any rate, is the role tural fringe, but by several who have crossed haven’t gathered enough information about played by Timmy and other ‘‘youngsters’’ in over to the mainstream literary market. the various issues involved.’’ At the same the world that Faggots portrays. Perhaps the most prominent of these writ- time, though—or so the author insists—‘‘the Another celebrated gay author who ers is the acclaimed novelist and essayist Ed- question of sex with children remains’’; and broached the subject of sex with minors is H7528 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE July 12, 1996 the late Paul Monette. Monette’s 1988 book How did Kinsey and his team get away And there, to return to the figure of Larry Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir garnered a with it? ‘‘As we can see now,’’ wrote Tom Don McQuay, is where the matter of National Book Critics Circle Award nomina- Bethell in his excellent review of the Kinsey pedophilia chic would seem to stand. In one tion and was acclaimed by many as ‘‘one of facts for the May 1996 American Spectator, corner, enraged parents from across the the most eloquent works to come out of the ‘‘science had vast prestige at the time and country screaming for help in protecting AIDS epidemic’’ (USA Today). His 1992 book Kinsey exploited it. Any perversion could be their children; in the other, desiccated Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story won the concealed beneath the scientist’s smock and salonistes who have taken to wondering lan- National Book Award. It is in this volume the posture of detached observation.’’ guidly whether a taste for children’s flesh is that Paul Monette, like Edmund White be- Yet if Kinsey is now suffering a public dis- really so indefensible after all. And they fore him, puts forth what would once have robing, his intellectual heirs display their wonder why there’s a culture war. been a controversial thesis about the sexual researches still. For a final model of f wants of prepubescent boys. ‘‘Nine is not too pedophilia chic—this one tricked out with young to feel the tribal call,’’ he notes early all requisite charts, tables, models, and talk EDUCATION IN AMERICA of methodology—consider a volume pub- on while recollecting his own childhood ad- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under ventures with a boy his age. ‘‘Nine and a half lished in 1993 by Prometheus Books. As its is old enough,’’ he repeats later, adding the name seems to suggest, Prometheus is a pub- the Speaker’s announced policy of May by-now familiar note that ‘‘for me at least, lishing house of cutting-edge aspiration, 12, 1995, the gentleman from Georgia it was a victory of innocence over a world of whose backlist reveals its focus on issues [Mr. NORWOOD] is recognized for 30 min- oppression.’’ like paranormal psychology, freethinking, utes. Several chapters later, while reminiscing and humanism. And, oh yes, a trans-Atlantic Mr. NORWOOD. Mr. Speaker, I come about an aborted affair he had with a high- exploration of the virtues of pederasty called before the House today to speak on the school student while teaching at a boarding Children’s Sexual Encounters with Adults: A future of our Nation—and that future school, Monette sounds another theme that Scientific Study, by a trio identified as C.K. is our children, and whether they will once would have been guaranteed to shock: Li (‘‘a clinical psychologist in Paisley, Scot- that of the predatory, empowered adolescent. land’’), D.J. West (‘‘Emeritus Professor of have the same opportunity to live the ‘‘Behind the gritted teeth of passion,’’ writes Clinical Criminology at Cambridge Univer- American dream that all the members the author of his first sexual encounter with sity’’), and T.P. Woodhouse (‘‘a criminologi- of this House have enjoyed in our life- a particular boy, ‘‘I heard the ripple of cal research worker in Ealing, England’’). times. laughter, so one of us must have been having Like our other pioneering looks at sex Since the 104th Congress was sworn fun. Must’ve been Greg, for I was too busy with kiddies, Children’s Sexual Encounters into office a year and a half ago, we feeding on sin and death to play.’’ with Adults is sexually biased, concentrating have debated the issue of how best to ‘‘It was Greg who always chose the time,’’ as it does on the ‘‘startling contrast’’ be- he continues, adding dramatically, ‘‘I stood tween boys and girls when it comes to sex provide for our children’s education. ready to drop whatever I was doing. . . . I with grownups. (‘‘Surveys,’’ as the authors That is good. We need discourse and lived in thrall to Greg’s unpredictable explain at some length, ‘‘find that on the hotly contested ideas from both side of needs.’’ whole boys are less likely than girls to expe- the aisle if we are to forge a bipartisan, That is not to say that Paul Monette, at rience bad effects attributable to sexual inci- hopefully even a nonpartisan plan for the time, felt himself relieved of responsibil- dents with adults.’’) It is not sexual contacts ensuring that every American has the ity for the affair—far from it. ‘‘If I am par- per se that pose problems for children, the ticular about the fact of being seduced—put- education necessary to not just sur- authors argue, but rather the cultural preju- vive, but to succeed in a global econ- ting it all on him, the will and the dare and dices by which most members of society then the control—it doesn’t mean I didn’t judge such acts. ‘‘The damaging effects on omy. feel the guilt. . . . I had become the thing children of intimate but non-penetrative But, Mr. Speaker, we cannot have the heteros secretly believe about everyone contacts with adults,’’ note the authors in a that needed discourse while the debate gay—a predator, a recruiter, an indoctrina- section on ‘‘cultural relativity,’’ ‘‘are clearly is fraught with distortions and politi- tor of boys into acts of darkness.’’ But this psychological rather than physical and to a cal rhetoric, and that is where we find self-recrimination, he goes on to reveal, was considerable extent dependent upon how simply false consciousness. For finally, ‘‘I ourselves today. So I would like to such situations are viewed in the society in begin by reviewing exactly what edu- don’t think that now. Twenty years of listen- which the child has been brought up.’’ ing to gay men recount their own adolescent Again, and as Hanna Rosin and NAMBLA cational reforms have been passed by seductions of older guys has put it all in a fans everywhere will appreciate, the study this House over the last 18 months. different light.’’ also emphasize the positive side of man-boy Under the Balanced Budget Act, total Have all these trial balloons just passed love for the boy in question. As one typical student loan volume was scheduled to without comment over the public head? One paragraph has it: grow from last year’s $24 to $36 billion of the few critics to have taken notice is ‘‘There is a considerable amount of evi- in 2002. That’s a 50-percent growth in Bruce Bawer, who in his 1993 book, A Place dence that some boys are quite happy in re- at the Table castigates Edmund White in spending. The school lunch program lationships with adult homosexual men so was approved for a 36-percent increase particular for his advocacy of man-boy sex. long as the affair does not come to light and Such radicalism, Bawer argues, is part of the cause scandal or police action. . . . The great over the same period, with the States twisted legacy of the closet—a legacy that majority [of boys in a 1987 study] came from allowed to run their lunchrooms with- has forced ‘‘subculture’’ writers like White apparently normal homes, but were pleased out Federal interference for the first to evermore in-your-face positions on ac- to have additional attention and patronage time in decades. count of their oppression by the rest of soci- from a devoted adult and willingly went The maximum annual Pell grant ety. along with his sexual requirements.’’ But writers have from time immemorial amount for low-income college stu- Parents everywhere will be relieved to dents was raised to the highest level in endured oppression—including jail time and learn that pedophiles themselves are not the execution—without leaping to the defense of predators of popular imaginings, but conge- history at $2,400 per student. pedophilia. And what kind of ‘‘oppression’’ is nial well-wishers much like Edmund White’s The House approved sweeping, and it, exactly, that confers fame, fortune, criti- alluring Petrouchka. ‘‘Men who approach long-needed reforms in the way inter- cal raves, national awards, and—in the case boys,’’ the social scientists write in conclu- est is calculated on some of the loans. of Edmund White—a Guggenheim fellowship sion, ‘‘are generally looking for what Under the proposed changes, no stu- and anointment as a Chevalier de l’Ordre des amounts to a love relationship.’’ Thus, ‘‘they Arts et Lettres? dent would have paid any interest on employ gradual and gentle persuasion. The their loans while they were still in PEDOPHILE SCIENCE average pederast is no more seeking a rape- school. But graduate students would Actually, even the likes of White were style confrontation than is the average het- being more derivative than they would ever erosexual when looking for a congenial adult have been required to pay back the in- like to believe. Hands down, if you’ll pardon partner . . .’’ terest that accrued on their loans the expression, the real big daddy of At a time when almost every kind of advo- while they were getting their graduate pedophilia chic could only be the long-dead cacy comes equipped with statistical bat- degrees, after they graduated and got Alfred C. Kinsey. As Judith A. Reisman and teries, it should come as no surprise that jobs. Edward W. Eichel point out in their 1990 pedophiles and their allies, too, have ac- At present, working-class Americans expose´ Kinsey, Sex and Fraud, ‘‘It is Kinsey’s quired their own pseudo-scientific apparatus. are forced to subsidize that accrued in- work which established the notion of ‘nor- Only the unsophisticated would be surprised terest for doctors, lawyers, and Ph.D. mal’ childhood sexual desire’’—a notion that, to find such a numerological polemic put for- as their book documents, was field-tested on ward by a reputable publishing house and ad- recipients. It is just not right for some- the bodies of hundreds of children, most of vertised in the Barnes and Noble book cata- one earning minimum wage to be pay- them boys, in ways that might today be con- log. But then, only the unsophisticated stand ing the loan cost for someone earning sidered imprisonable offenses. in need of the reeducation its pages offer. six-figures. The budget we passed last