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Nussle Sanford Thomas So the motion to lay the resolution on D-day, the night before. It was Packard Saxton Thornberry Parker Scarborough Tiahrt on the table was agreed to. about my 200th speech. The gentleman Paxon Schaefer Torkildsen A motion to reconsider the vote from Wisconsin [Mr. GUNDERSON] has Peterson (MN) Schiff Traficant whereby said motion was agreed to made about seven, eight speeches in 16 Petri Seastrand Upton was, by unanimous consent, laid on the years. I am about to break 200 tonight, Pombo Sensenbrenner Vucanovich Porter Shadegg Walker table. I think, warning about the spread of Pryce Shaw Walsh T the world’s greatest health problem, at Quillen Shays Wamp 82.18 POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE least in this country, particularly be- Quinn Shuster Watts (OK) Mr. DORNAN rose to a question of Radanovich Skeen Weldon (FL) cause it involves young men in the Ramstad Smith (MI) Weller personal privilege. prime of their lives. Regula Smith (NJ) White The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr. ‘‘This is from a young man dying of Riggs Smith (WA) Whitfield LAHOOD, pursuant to clause 1 of rule AIDS. His name is John R. Gail, Jr. He Roberts Solomon Wicker IX, recognized Mr. DORNAN for one Rogers Souder Wolf is from Centerville, OH. It says: hour. Rohrabacher Spence Young (AK) ‘Mr. Dornan, I caught your speech on Mr. DORNAN made the following Ros-Lehtinen Stearns Young (FL) AIDS yesterday over C–SPAN. I must Roth Stump Zeliff statement: Roukema Talent Zimmer ‘‘Mr. Speaker, I will be showing no commend you. I am a 29-year-old hemo- Royce Tate philiac who was infected with HIV in Salmon Tauzin charts or pictures of the principal focus of my discussion tonight, because of a 1983. Last September I was diagnosed NOES—170 discussion I have had with staff and with my first opportunistic infection cryptosporidia, an intestinal virus Abercrombie Furse Neal leadership and references to a prior Andrews Gejdenson Oberstar battle over photographs that we were which causes severe stomach cramping, Baesler Gonzalez Obey chronic diarrhea, and the wasting syn- Baldacci Gordon Olver funding by a young Catholic man named Robert Mapplethorpe who had drome. Barcia Green (TX) Ortiz ‘I have already lost nearly 40 pounds Barrett (WI) Hamilton Orton died of AIDS and we were using tax Becerra Harman Owens dollars to defend some of the cruder and I am on long-term disability from Beilenson Hastings (FL) Pallone photographs of this very, very gifted work. Obviously this infection, after 13 Bentsen Hefner Pastor years of being asymptomatic, has made Berman Hilliard Payne (NJ) photographer. But we were told that it Bevill Hinchey Payne (VA) would hurt the decorum of the House me another AIDS statistic. Bishop Holden Pickett to show what taxpayers are being ‘Mr. Dornan, above being a hemo- Blumenauer Hoyer Pomeroy philiac or having AIDS, I am a Chris- Bonior Jackson (IL) Poshard asked to pay for. I accept that. But I Borski Jackson-Lee Rahall have them here to remind American tian. And I must tell you, it is refresh- Boucher (TX) Rangel citizens watching on C–SPAN, Mr. ing to hear the truth being told about Browder Jefferson Reed Speaker, that there is a level of hypoc- homosexuality and the homosexual Brown (CA) Johnson (SD) Richardson agenda, as you did last night. Not Brown (FL) Johnson, E. B. Rivers risy in this country and a moral de- Brown (OH) Johnston Roemer cline that we may be the last Chamber many representatives would stand up Chapman Kanjorski Rose in the world to have a decorum while and say the things you did yesterday, Clayton Kaptur Roybal-Allard which I applaud. Clement Kennedy (MA) Rush all else melts around us. Clyburn Kennedy (RI) Sabo ‘‘The man, and my friend NEWT GING- ‘I am not a bitter person and have Coleman Kennelly Sanders RICH knows this, who I would have sup- forgiven the man who infected me. I Collins (IL) Kildee Schroeder ported for minority whip back in 1989, can forgive a homosexual, but not their Collins (MI) Kleczka Schumer sin. It was a homosexual’s perverse ac- Conyers Klink Scott and if he had won, he would be the Costello Lantos Serrano Speaker today, and the gentleman tions, polluting the blood supply, Coyne Levin Sisisky from Georgia, [Mr. GINGRICH] knows which will, without God’s intervention, Cramer Lewis (GA) Skaggs bring about my untimely death. Cummings Lofgren Skelton this, is the man I most respect in this Danner Lowey Slaughter House, HENRY HYDE of Illinois. ‘I am asking you, Congressman, to de la Garza Luther Spratt ‘‘HENRY just gave me some brotherly inquire about the status of the Richard DeFazio Maloney Stark advice, that, Mr. HYDE, I would dearly Ray Relief Fund which could com- DeLauro Manton Stenholm pensate the hemophiliac HIV-positive Dellums Markey Stokes love to take. He said, ‘My friend, BOB, Deutsch Martinez Studds I love you like a brother. Go in the well community for the wrongdoings of the Dicks Mascara Stupak and say that one of our own colleagues pharmaceutical companies, the Red Dingell Matsui Tanner Cross, the CDC, the FDA and the Na- Dixon McCarthy Taylor (MS) called you a hater, a bigot and a liar. Doggett McHale Tejeda Simply say, I am not a hater, I am not tional Hemophilia Foundation. The Dooley McKinney Thompson a bigot and I am not a liar, and I for- fraud and negligence perpetrated by Doyle McNulty Thurman give anybody who used those words these organizations was, and I am sure Durbin Meehan Torres you are well aware, documented by the Edwards Meek Vento against me, and take a walk.’ He says, Engel Menendez Visclosky ‘You will be a hero. Everybody likes to IOM in July of 1995. The bill has over Eshoo Millender- Volkmer be a hero.’ 230 cosponsors, I think it is up to 240 Evans McDonald Ward now, but it seems to be stalled by the Farr Miller (CA) Waters ‘‘So I showed him my remarks, I Fattah Minge Watt (NC) mentioned Moses, I mentioned that in hand of a Republican. Please help us Fazio Mink Waxman God we trust, I mentioned Abraham, I move H.R. 1023. I hope you are on it. Fields (LA) Moakley Williams ‘I have been on it for months. Filner Mollohan Wise mentioned a few lines from the end of Foglietta Montgomery Woolsey Cecil B. DeMille’s classic 10 Command- ‘I appreciate your attention to this Ford Moran Wynn ments ‘and they did give themselves up great matter of importance to me and Frank (MA) Murtha to vile affections,’ and I showed him thousands of innocent hemophiliacs in- Frost Nadler what I had slaved over. I told him I fected with the HIV virus. God bless ANSWERED ‘‘PRESENT’’—9 begin it with the words that my school you. John R. Gail, Jr.’. ‘‘Now, look, a lot of you folks tease Cardin Hobson Pelosi teachers told me years ago: Gephardt Johnson (CT) Sawyer ‘If you want to have everything going me about my memory. I hate war, but Goss McDermott Wilson for you, just say, Come, Holy Spirit.’ I am fascinated by people that will put ‘‘I showed HENRY a letter. I said, their lives on the line and die for our NOT VOTING—25 ‘How about if I open with this letter freedom of speech. I know that being a Ackerman Jacobs Taylor (NC) and then take your advice?’ combat-trained fighter pilot, never Brewster LaFalce Thornton Bryant (TX) Lincoln Torricelli ‘That’s good, do that.’ tested in combat, that I have an extra, Clay McDade Towns ‘‘Well, I will open up with the letter, extra respect and affection for those Ehrlich Oxley Velazquez and, so help me God, Mr. HYDE, I will like DUKE and SAM, PETE PETERSON, Flake Peterson (FL) Weldon (PA) then make up my mind. who were called upon, just by the year Gibbons Portman Yates Gutierrez Smith (TX) ‘‘Here is a letter from this month, of their birth, to put their lives and Hall (OH) Stockman June 7, about a speech I made on AIDS their freedom for 6 and 7 years, in two

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We have never been impo- did it. lutely torn me up over AIDS. Listen to lite, discourteous, or uncivil toward ‘‘So Mr. Speaker, I now step out into my words, please. If somebody is each other, not once. Mr. GUNDERSON the minefields of political correctness, watching on TV, Mr. Speaker, I hope will confirm this, just ask him. In fact, evil minefields, I believe, alone, but I they take this down. ask anyone around here, and if they hope and pray alone not for long. ‘‘World War II, biggest killing in all are honest, these are the adjectives of Come, Holy Spirit. of history; 292,131 combat killed-in-ac- my staff and my wife and kids. Ask ‘‘On May 2 last month, here in our tion deaths. Two hundred ninety-two anyone. If they are honest, they will awe-inspiring Rotunda, which is our thousand, one hundred thirty-one. tell you I am one of the most cheerful, secular cathedral nave, this 104th Con- AIDS, as of the 30th of this month, optimistic, enthusiastic, upbeat, irre- gress, at a very, very moving cere- 360,000 dead and counting, including pressible, good natured, and affable mony, awarded our congressional gold 4,000 children. Members with whom they serve, dis- medal to the Reverend Billy Graham ‘‘How about our war between the counting this area right here. And and his wonderful, devoted wife of 53 States, the Civil War? Combat deaths, loyal. years, Ruth. During that inspiring not the 30,000 or more that died of ‘‘Yes, for certain I am passionate at ceremony, while thanking us and ad- pneumonia, Andersonville prison camp. times and, yes, unrelenting in my deep dressing Vice President AL GORE and Civil War combat deaths, 215,000 is the concern about the deterioration of our his beautiful wife Tipper and all of our round figure, but to be precise, 214,938. culture, and that concern is sometimes leadership, Mr. GINGRICH, Bob Dole, our AIDS, 360,000 dead and counting, 4,000 dismissed in a negative way by a few former Senate leader, and his wife Eliz- children; 4 million children worldwide adversaries and quite often in the lib- abeth, and Messrs. ARMEY, GEPHARDT, in just 3 years. eral press. They sometimes have a DELAY, BONIOR briefly, Senators LOTT, ‘‘How about all the other seven wars problem with objective truth and moti- DASCHLE, all the Senate leaders and put together? Revolutionary War, War vations about a lot of us around here. dozens of Members of both Houses. I of 1812 with Mexico, with Spain, skip- ‘‘As I pointed out occasionally to see some of the faces here that were ping over the Civil War, my dad’s war, supportive friends who have asked me there. Vietnam that still torments us, and about the passion, I have told them it ‘‘Reverend Billy Graham stated with Korea, how about that total of all the is only unusual, even in this historic great emotion, great emotion, ‘We are other seven wars? It’s 146,346; 143,346. Chamber that has weathered a civil a Nation on the brink of self-destruc- AIDS, 360,000 and counting. war and civil rights battles, only un- tion.’ He was not talking about most- ‘‘My motives are pure. I want to stop usual here, because today so many favored-nation status for China. He was this death toll. In those 200 speeches, Members of Congress, like so many not talking about another B–2 bomber, maybe I was not caring or Christian American citizens, lack passion about and he was not talking about a 4.3-cent enough to tell you that we have got to anything, in spite of that violent world gasoline tax. He was not even really work on this and get more money for out there. talking about the budget deficit, the care, of course. In Africa and Asia, mil- ‘‘The Khobar housing area comes to debt, which is immoral to do this to lions of people are going to die alone, mind. And because there are so many our children yet unborn. We know what nobody holding their hand, no rabbi, here, while aspiring to be nobles, I he was talking about, partly the sub- minister or priest at their side, no lov- know we have all seen ‘‘Brave Heart,’’ ject matter that brought me to the ing parents ashamed of not embracing while aspiring to be nobles have no floor tonight, I repeat, Dr. Graham, them instantly when they were first in- heart, let alone a brave one, and turn a ‘America is a Nation on the brink of fected. deaf ear to William Butler Yates’ warn- self-destruction.’ ‘‘How many of you knew honestly till ing that everywhere the ceremony of ‘‘A national poll last month stated this moment, till I tell you now that innocence is being drowned. First, a that 76 percent of our fellow Americans by the turn of the century, and what a tiny prolog. believe that our country is in spiritual ghastly way to go into the third mil- ‘‘The trigger for Mr. GUNDERSON’s and moral decline. This Member lennia, 60 million people will be in- point of privilege against me was a agrees; I am one of the 76 percent. I fected, 12 million with AIDS, and mil- ‘Dear Colleague’ letter. I did not want love my country. Who here does not? lions dead including those 4 million to discuss this stuff on the floor. I did Who here could not? And I am sick at children I mentioned. not want to read the Moreno report on heart at its lack of direction in moral ‘‘Mr. HYDE, I have got to go on, the floor. I circulated a factual report matters, in State and civic affairs in- HENRY. I dedicate this speech to John on a so-called homosexual circuit party volving character. No references to- Gail. of more than 2,000 bumping and grind- night to any other parts of this town. ‘‘Mr. Speaker, I rise to claim my ing partiers misusing the largest Fed- ‘‘I beg my colleagues to read care- privilege under House rule 9 to address eral auditorium in our capital. fully this cover article in the June 17 the House and reply to some, it says ‘‘On Thomas Jefferson’s birthday, edition of the Weekly Standard. It is scurrilous but I will soften it, pretty April 13, to celebrate licentious and titled, ‘Pedophilia Chic: The Norming tough attacks on my honor. We just lewd behavior at a mockingly called of Foul Perversion, Child Molestation.’ spent 40 minutes tonight talking about event, Cherry Jubilee. The ads would It seems that no longer is there any the word ‘impolite,’ my friend David, show you it has nothing to do with our conduct considered a flat-out evil. In my friend J.D. back and fourth. Forty blossoms, cherry blossoms. our Hollywood-type popular culture, minutes on ‘impolite.’ ‘Impolite’ is not ‘‘Mr. Speaker, after a fair evaluation there are hardly any taboos that re- up there with hater, bigot and preju- of all the facts, I can unequivocally main. The words ‘objective disorder’ diced person, smear artist. No, no, this state, I have been down to the Mellon fall on deaf ears at the networks and at is different. twice, the auditorium, that the report the New York Times. ‘‘Mr. GUNDERSON’s attacks on me issued by journalist Mark Moreno, who ‘‘It was just 12 days after Reverend from this very lectern May 14 have was not alone, had another journalist Graham’s warning that Mr. GUNDERSON worked their way throughout the na- with him, that it was true and accu- rose on the House floor. In a ‘Dear Col- tional media. He compounded his in- rate. Let me repeat that, contrary to league’ and at this lectern, he repeat- sults by telling a stringer for the Wash- Mr. GUNDERSON’s second-hand defense edly called me a liar, of course using ington Post, according to her puff piece of the 9 hours which he said he did not other words, impugned my character printed on June 2, that I am ‘full of attend at the majestic Andrew W. Mel- with the direct use of words like prejudice and hatred.’ That is so far lon Auditorium, the eyewitness, multi- ‘smear,’ ‘lies,’ ‘biased conduct’ and ‘an

1438 VerDate 23-MAR-99 16:22 May 11, 2000 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 01438 Fmt 9634 Sfmt 9634 S:\JCK\04DAY2\04DAY2.082 HPC1 PsN: HPC1 1996 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES T82.18 international effort to personally de- ‘‘Our toleration of low standards here got upset once on this floor. I am going stroy.’ in Congress over the years that I have to leave the rest for the record. ‘‘Here is one quote: ‘The gentleman observed is at the core of my challenge ‘‘I have a Member on our side, could from California has no right to mis- today, Mr. Speaker. Our Federal build- be a chairman of a major House com- represent the facts in this, his latest ings, and I have been told today they mittee next year. Given today’s tragic attempt to smear the homosexual com- are going to do it again next April for loss, one of my best friends in the munity.’ the third time, our Federal buildings cloakroom, who, by the way, told me ‘‘Of course he used the adjective ‘gay’ must never, never be used to facilitate, to do this. Bill Emerson told me to do as a noun, in place of the perfectly neu- if not glorify, immorality. this. I swear to God he told me to do tral nonpropaganda noun ‘homosexual.’ ‘‘We in Congress are culpable for any this. This list does not include Mem- Seven times he said ‘misrepresent the immorality taking place on public cit- bers who keep privacy. Credit to their facts’. Mr. GUNDERSON’s words or vari- izen-owned property in Washington. good judgment. One of our Members ations thereof were in the Washington And if we fail as custodians of these claims they are all Republicans. Quite Times, the Post, Congress Daily, Asso- beautiful citizen-owned buildings, you a bloodhound, I guess. Tends to occa- ciated Press; moved to slander from sea bet, culpable. And what dangerous pol- sionally to take away their privacy; to shining sea. In my home county, a icy are we following if we dismiss the uses the word ‘out.’ And I hope he young reporter embellished on the consequences of glorifying homosex- never does it. I thought there was one slander and put words in his mouth. uality right here in our Capitol? code that was unbroken in the homo- Said he called my effort a character as- ‘‘My colleagues need only reflect on sexual community, and that is every- sassination. Then the reporter went on the lives of those Members of Congress, body gets to make their own call in repeat the obnoxious charge that I was past and present, who found or still privacy. out to ‘smear the homosexual commu- find alluring, if not addictive, this life- ‘‘My colleagues, homosexuality is not nity’. style. I say this with no joy. Three of this adjective ‘gay.’ At least in this ‘‘Mr. Speaker, I think it is kind of our Members have died from AIDS, an- Chamber, where people’s careers have other barely escaped expulsion. low-life, this tact. I know Mr. GUNDER- brought them to this pinnacle, it has ‘‘I will leave the rest for the written SON was prodded to do it. He said in his been very sad, not happy. I would like record because it involved a child, a 16- opening that he was going to let sleep- to know how I, a God fearing Amer- year-old teenage page, in Spain. I never ing dogs lie, or words to that effect, ican, a very lucky husband of 41 years, heard of a page going on a domestic and I think I am entitled, the ‘impo- a father of 5 stalwart God loving chil- CODEL. How do you get to go on an lite’ cost us 40 minutes tonight, then I dren, adults all, a grandfather of 10, overseas congressional delegation and think I am entitled to make my case No. 11 in the hanger, and a very hard lose your innocence? Another Member for my motivation. working double House chairman, who was dishonored with a very severe ‘‘So let the facts speak for them- is trying his very best to slow the AIDS House reprimand; involved a pimp/pros- toll, how could I possibly smear activ- selves. He says that I and others un- titute. A lot of pity from people from a ists, as Mr. GUNDERSON accused me, fairly used stereotypes when analyzing West Point sense of honor. Leave the conduct. Well, just what would be con- given what they have done, and many rest for the record. continue to do, to themselves? sidered typical versus stereotypical ‘‘Then we saw two other Members conduct? Being fired from a Federal job have their careers ended by election ‘‘In that June 12 Post Magazine for a tryst with a secretary. Excuse defeats after they were discovered story, ‘Mr. GUNDERSON asserts DORNAN me, with the chief of staff. How about trolling for teenagers at so-called hot is full of prejudice and hatred.’ That a 1991 public report of drink-throwing action bars. One of them, a friend of one quote alone, as the parliamentar- at an inside-the-Beltway bar that was mine, was the father of three teen- ians told me, entitled me to an hour. about to be closed and was closed for agers. The other, first Republican in And in the same breath he used ‘Is Dor- pornographic pictures on its wall? How 100 years in his seat, looked like a nan dangerous? Sure, because he can about another more recent drink- brother of mine, redhead, busted by our use passion to intimidate and to roll throwing rerun at a sodom and mas- Capitol Hill police in one of the men’s over those who are unwilling or unable ochism bar December 16, last Decem- rooms in the Longworth Building. Sad. to stand up to him.’ ber, 6 months ago. Again, the alterca- At a porno theater, where people were ‘‘That is pathetic. I know this is tion created sleazy newspaper stories diving out of windows, some died, and going to sound patronizing, but I mean involving a Congressman. Is that con- eventually died himself of AIDS. it from the bottom of my heart. I pray sidered classy conduct? Does it dimin- ‘‘Now, there is another word, Mr. for STEVE GUNDERSON and all others ish the integrity of our House as a Speaker, that I learned in preparing for who like my colleague live on the edge. whole? You bet it does. What would tonight. It is a Greek word. But I must fight back here tonight. I happen to an officer of the military in- Ephebephilia. E-p-h-e-b-e-p-h-i-l-i-a. It must fight back. These charges have volved in similar squabbles? Is this means someone who targets 18- and 19- their intent to destroy not my reputa- stereotypical behavior or just typical? years-olds. I guess in some of our Appa- tion only, but it brands my work in ‘‘Mr. Speaker, no one believes that lachian Mountain States, where the Congress as driven by the twin evils of any Member of Congress is risking his age of consent is 15 or 16, you target hatred and bigotry. or her life by serving in this Senate or that narrow band, kind of the way ‘‘It is not going to work. It is not in House. Out in the field, yes, sir. Leo Hugh Hefner does with heterosexual my nature to allow something like Ryan comes to mind, Larry McDonnell. baby faced young girls for his that to go unanswered. I went through No, we do risk our lives. I flew on the centerfolds who look younger than jet pilot training to serve in peacetime, aircraft that killed Ron Brown and 34 their 18 that they have to be legally. ready to defend our freedom of speech. other people, with SONNY CALLAHAN He has been caught twice using a I went through that pilot training and two or three Members I see here minor. when Mr. GUNDERSON was 2 years old. I tonight, four flights less than a month ‘‘Now ephebephilia, like pedophilia, marched with Dr. Martin Luther King before that killing took place, that ter- is a mortal sin of seduction, a trans- when Mr. GUNDERSON was 12. The next rible accident. But there are people gression in Greece against 18 and 19- year, in 1964, I had FBI people tell me who serve under us that we make ad- years-olds. Why do you not study the the Ku Klux Klan has a contract out on here to a tougher standard that do risk decay of classical Greek culture, my this Republican’s head in a beautiful their lives. A slim majority of Mem- colleagues? Whether it is ephebephilia state because I was putting my life on bers of Congress, eight people, swing or pedophilia, in God’s eyes it is all the the line against bigotry, registering to four either way, sent thousands of same. vote African-Americans. troopers of our 1st Armored Division ‘‘There are a lot of Members who ‘‘Mr. Speaker, in the 1880’s, when im- by Clinton into harm’s way in Bosnia. stay in privacy. I respect that. It is moral dueling was commonplace, this And yet Congress is going to ignore just when they are using it to advance would not have happened. Never would this cherry romp of hedonism right an agenda, trying to have it all ways, I have had my honor assaulted this down here on Constitution Avenue? kind of like truth in advertising that I way. I will leave out the line.

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‘‘Mr. Speaker, the impact of casual the Louis Pasteur Clinic to investigate about how our blood supply was con- sex propaganda and mainstreaming this explosion of this pandemic. Where taminated and was beginning to spread and, in some cases, romanticizing of were they when I went to Geneva later the epidemic that year at a ferocious AIDS is having a deadly effect upon that year, with my wife Sally, to learn rate? Who came to this floor anywhere our young, and lately upon our very all we could about this health night- and discussed unsanitary promiscuous young. I will tell you some quotes from mare by getting extensive briefings at behavior or debated using infected nee- Dr. Fauci up at NIH later, and that is the World Health Organization? How dles and the cross contaminating of why I circulated the facts about that about visits to the Centers for Disease both cohorts? Where have the homo- circuit party. Control? I never saw anybody sign in sexual activists been over the last 15 ‘‘It is also my intent to reassert the down there except NEWT GINGRICH. It is years? truth of what happened at that dance, in his district, or was. How many times ‘‘Well, there are now thousands of ho- and we are not talking ballroom danc- has any Member, to gain AIDS knowl- mosexuals who are working tirelessly ing here, Mr. Speaker. So that no one edge, visited the National Institutes of and heroically to comfort and, yes, will be misled, Mr. GUNDERSON, in his Health, just a short 15, 20 minute drive love the ill with a pure philos love, a assault, associates me with two honor- from Capitol Hill up to Bethesda? Well, Christian love, a Judeo-Christian love, able journalists, one of them a coura- I have made all these informative trips and God bless them. But other than geous African-American writer, the several times over the last decade. telling us we are all culpable, these are other an excellent investigative re- ‘‘And what did Mr. GUNDERSON do the leaders, and all at risk, for some it porter. And he attacks both of them as with his unjustified, now illegal, Jim has been just business as usual. Trying motivated by hate and prejudice, the Wright-initiated 2 years of congres- to get money out of us, which we give journalism of hate, bigotry and preju- sional pay raise 1989 and 1990? Well, my most generously, and I have been there dice. 2 years of those raises went to AIDS 100 percent, and they still push, some ‘‘In his attack he invited the two hospices. of them, public relations mumbo- writers to come and visit the victims of ‘‘Mr. Speaker, I do not know what jumbo instead of tried-and-true solid the AIDS disease. I checked with the my colleague does in his free time to public health policy. other two; we have all done that. And educate himself about the worldwide ‘‘Mr. Speaker, anybody can tell my he said we should learn that these are aspects of this, but I have been care- colleague from Wisconsin that I have not some faceless pretty corpses but fully tracking this nightmare for 13 spoken with more young men before rather sons, brothers, uncles, lovers years. Just last month I visited the they died of AIDS than most that serve and friends, and, in increasing num- Armed Forces Medical Intelligence here. When a person grows up and has bers, also mothers, sisters, and daugh- Center at Fort Detrick where I re- lifelong roots in Manhattan, New York, ters. Strangely, he left out dads and ceived a startling and tragic update and Beverly Hills, CA, as I did and as I aunts, and in the case of two of our about the exponential spread of AIDS do, you will see in 10 years more trag- Congress who are dead from AIDS, worldwide. edy involving drug abuse and fast track their prior important roles as husbands ‘‘In just 31⁄2 years from now, I told heterosexual casual sex than you will and fathers. you this, 60 million will be infected, 12 see in the wholesome dairylands of ‘‘It should comfort the gentleman million full-blown AIDS. Sadly, most Wisconsin in 100 years, at least until from Wisconsin to know, if his real of them with little or not health care. these not so gay 90s’. goal is the truth, that this Congress- And dead? Nobody really can track the ‘‘In fact, Mr. Speaker, it is inter- man has forgotten more about the dead worldwide. No one knows for cer- esting to know over the last 10 years, worldwide medical impact of AIDS tain how many millions by 2000 in the Mr. GUNDERSON has spoken on this than the Member from Wisconsin has year of our Lord will be gone. floor about AIDS about eight times. ever known. And I might add, as some ‘‘I also learned the following stun- Unbelievable for a self-proclaimed per- of my colleagues claim, that I forget ning, shocking medical fact. The mili- son who is involved. If you do not little, if anything. tary forces of Zimbabwe were 75 per- count a one-sentence in passing men- ‘‘According to that June 2 article, cent infected. Not 7.5, not 17. Three out tion of AIDS in 1989. Then, amazing as Mr. GUNDERSON said he has had four of of every four of that officer corps, their this seems, his very first speech, and a his closest friends waste away and die sergeants and their kids are infected short one at that, was his annoying, at from AIDS and another is HIV positive. with AIDS. You know what this did? least to me, Christian second-to-none What a gut-ripping, heartbreaking ex- Because of this, their forces are re- speech, and that was only 2 years ago. perience. But maybe he has kept these jected permanently by the U.N. for any ‘‘I, on the other hand, addressed this tragedies within his circle. I do not re- future peacekeeping assignments. And Chamber on the subject of AIDS, I re- call him publicly warning anybody, at least six more nations are going to peat, about 200 times. That is Mr. young or adult, not from this lectern, be stigmatized any day now on a no-go GUNDERSON’s rate times 24. This speech that the wages of promiscuity, for list with unacceptable for peace- tonight alone contains more references heterosexuals, too, is now death. keeping duty. to AIDS both in quantity and quality ‘‘Does he defend the Magic Johnson ‘‘Zimbabwe peacekeepers brought the than Mr. GUNDERSON’s eight short rationale: I am simply an innocent vic- specter of AIDS infection and death to speeches over 16 years all run together. tim and we are all in this together; it Somalia. How sad. Death in the name ‘‘I repeat, in 1985, I offered a success- is really an innocent disease? Or, rath- of peace. Make love, not war. That ful and nearly unanimous amendment er, champion what I think is the more means more pressure on our American in this House, 11 years ago, to close honorable approach of heavyweight infection-free forces to travel world- those disease-infested, unsafe-sex-with- prize fighter Tommy Morrison, who wide on peacekeeping missions? Is that multiple-strangers bathhouses, the stated through tears, it is my fault, my not obvious, Mr. Speaker? It is a pow- aforementioned anvils from hell that conduct, my immoral behavior. If I can erful reason to keep our own military broke and slowly killed so many mid- save one young person from doing what mercifully 100 percent HIV-AIDS infec- night cowboys in New York City and I did and save them from becoming in- tion free. San Francisco. fected with this killing disease, then ‘‘A 100 percent non-AIDS infected ‘‘Frankly, given the contrast and the my suffering will not have been in military is my proper goal as the chair- attention we both have given to this vain. No coming back to the boxing man of Military Personnel. And I take tragic retrovirus nightmare, the widely ring for one short season. As that big a lot of, to quote a four-star, bovine used homosexual protest bumper stick- beautiful smile, and the most incom- scatology from the homosexual lobby er ‘‘silence equals death’’ has a special parable smile I have ever seen in my for my perfectly logical and fair legis- resonance, don’t you think. I have life on Magic Johnson gave us for a lation and a lot of that scatology from never been silent because I truly be- while on the basketball court. the other body. lieve in tough love. Meaningful com- ‘‘And where was Mr. GUNDERSON or ‘‘Where was Mr. GUNDERSON or any passion demands positive action. any other Member in 1986, when I other Member of the 99th Congress ‘‘When Mr. GUNDERSON attacks my pleased with my colleagues, mostly on back in 1985 when I gave the first of al- belief system on what constitutes seri- my side, come to Paris with me to visit most 200 of my floor speeches warning ous sin and what constitutes the cor-

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Loving with stark naked people throwing told a long time ago that there were friends living together for years can be blood red paint on the holy father’s ve- some HIV positives between the House bonded by philos love with never even hicle. Main driving force is this issue and the Senate; the person is long gone a thought of eros love. So under the to that atrocity. However, thanks to who told me that. He said that only law, you cannot be H-O-M-O without God’s unrelenting love, and I have seen about 50 Members had even been test- the S-E-X-U-A-L, any more than under this when death is near, it is back to ed. law you can be hetero without the sex- the arms of holy mother church, ‘‘So if we include all of our staffers, ual. Dominus vobiscum. about 30,000, we would probably pick up ‘‘This is a crucial distinction in the ‘‘What does Mr. GUNDERSON really a handful who are infected. That is also law. Why? Because laws and public know about my love for the dying or because government, like Hollywood, policies are based on human actions, my empathy for human suffering or my like Broadway, like big cities, it at- not the penumbra of orientation, incli- work with the families of our missing tracts a disproportionate number of ho- nations, tendencies or temptations in action in Vietnam and now Korea mosexuals who want to work here for never acted upon. where he left hundreds behind under a their country beyond the 1 or 2 percent ‘‘President Jimmy Carter comes to Republican hero, a five-star general, estimates nationwide. mind. That is what you get for giving President Eisenhower? What does he ‘‘I am sure you get my point, Mr. an interview like Bill Buckley to Play- know about my empathy for human Speaker. But if you say that this group boy. What goes on in the thought proc- suffering? Jesus died for sinners, actu- or that group is a high risk, you have esses of the human brain, that is not ally for each individual sinner. just stigmatized a small percentage of law. Law involves conduct, behavior ‘‘I am a sinner. Most of us around our population as high risk for vene- and, yes, sometimes, rarely, speech, here commit at least little, small sins real disease. The only fatal sexually such as treason, libel or yelling fire on a pretty regular basis, do we not. transmitted disease in the United and in a crowded enclosure. Every one of us, every day with every States is AIDS. So by accepting logical ‘‘There are no laws against what a suffering person can and should say, truth, you can be called a bigot, a man or woman thinks not will there there but for the grace of God go I. My hater, or prejudiced. ever be in a truly free country. In the motives are based on compassion and ‘‘Those are the vile words hurled at eyes of the law, thoughts do not rape or on love for my fellow man and a pure me, at an African-American columnist, molest. Desires do not sexually exploit desire to defend innocent youth and at a hard-working reporter, and my another person or spread disease. Only children. good friends at the Family Research human actions can do those things. All ‘‘I resent anybody out there hiding Council and at you who instinctively of the consequences pertaining to the behind the facade of caring, thinking believed Mark Morrano’s report about behavior of male homosexuality center about other things. Does every Member illegal conduct at the Mellon audito- on sex acts. In James Carvillean-speak, truly grasp the enormity of the suf- rium. it is the conduct, stupid. fering that was involved with those ‘‘By the way, would it not be equally ‘‘Unfortunately, Colorado’s amend- 360,000 Americans slowly wasting away, scandalous to rent out this architec- ment 2 carried the term orientation. It and counting. I can’t absorb the enor- tural showpiece, the Mellon audito- allowed Justice Kennedy and five oth- mity of that level of suffering. Who but rium, for a Hustler, Penthouse, or ers to perpetuate the myth of some a handful among us in Congress, I re- Playboy, no-holds-barred celebration of kind of innate homosexual personhood. peat, even knew that 60 million are free love with centerfold models, as the I do not have to tell you, Mr. Speaker, going to be infected at the turn of the bartenders were on April 13, in neon how ridiculously inane that notion is. century. What a way to enter that mil- day-glo underwear. That is all they had ‘‘Imagine, if you will, some of these lennium, I repeat. And the calamity is on, with or without the drug use, with beautiful babies, occasionally held in behavior-driven, conduct-driven in the or without the half-naked gyrating, their parents arms or in our cloakroom main. No ifs, ands or buts about that with or without the crude name like of late, imagine those babies. Can any- harsh argument. Screw Alley for the beautiful arched one really make a scientific case that ‘‘Notwithstanding the pandemic na- carriage entrance on the east side of somehow those parents are holding ture of this worldwide plague, the the courtyard, without anything like budding little bisexuals, cross-dressers truth is, and honest reporters have that, we are going to give that place to or pedophiles just waiting for puberty known this for years, AIDS simply is Hustler or to Guccioni’s Penthouse? I to reveal their true orientation? not, not everyone’s disease. Is it a don’t think so, the kids would say. ‘‘Such arguments are made regularly, plague? Of course it is. Is it an epi- ‘‘Now, if I can have an animus to- usually by homosexual priests or ho- demic, an international pandemic? Be- wards the promotion of fornication and mosexual scientists or homosexual doc- yond question, but it simply is not adultery that is promoted in Hustler, tors and are rarely, if ever, exposed as everybody’s disease. why can I not have an animus toward mostly psychobabble and pseudo- ‘‘Read the May 1 story which will be glorifying homosexuality, particularly science, certainly not by my friends at in my full remarks in the Wall Street circuit parties. I refer you to the U.S. Newsweek, Time or the other liberal Journal. Almost everybody in this Supreme Court decision, I have my eye weeklies, including in the law concepts room has a better chance of being hit on the clock, Romer versus Evans, May of orientation and class of persons like by their own personal lightning bolt, a 20, just last month, most timely and amendment 2, it spawned the death of direct message from God to come home very instructive. Pro-family folks, es- that amendment. as fast as you can, a lightning bolt, be- pecially you in Colorado who crafted ‘‘But the argument with which I took fore they have a chance of becoming that, do not be discouraged by what I the greatest exception in the flawed HIV positive. am about to say. But sadly, Colorado’s Kennedy-written majority decision and ‘‘Let us apply some logic. Two amendment 2 was imprecisely written the focus that is most relevant to this thoughtful leaders from AIDS Project and its exact wording is what allowed question of privilege here tonight, Mr. LA in my office last night told me that six justices to choose process over sub- Speaker, is Kennedy’s use of the words if AIDS is everybody’s disease, then it stance with that majority decision. animus and animosity to describe the is nobody’s disease. They just do not ‘‘Let me explain at this key point, motivation of the framers of amend- want it to be called totally, to use Mr. Speaker, what I am about to say, ment 2, 53 percent of Colorado’s voters their words, a gay disease. They say it brightly illuminated by this Supreme who voted for the amendment, and the is not everybody’s disease. Is AIDS Court decision, will lend itself to a res- beliefs of the polling of the over- your disease, Mr. Speaker? I did not olution of the question before us today. whelming majority of Americans.

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‘‘Animus, this is the same charge sexual conduct and at that ostenta- a bed is Jesus Christ. Every little fin- that Mr. GUNDERSON has leveled at me, tious, in-your-face conduct that was ger you lift to help them, you are help- using rougher language. In that long exhibited at the Cherry Jubilee group ing Jesus. It is right there. Of course reviewing June 2 Post magazine puff grope. we have to have love and compassion, piece, to be specific again, he said that ‘‘In his floor statement, the gen- but focused animosity is logical when my effort in exposing the truth about tleman from Wisconsin attempts to it is directed at the behavior of arro- this weekend was just my latest at- portray the homosexual conduct at gant risk takers. Jim Graham agreed tempt to smear the homosexual com- that stately building as, quote, a gift of with me on this. Those hell-bent for munity. That I am motivated by ha- love, not a weekend of illegal activity. leather put lust before long life, folks, tred, a much nastier word for animus, Even the remotest touch of common and therefore they overload, if not not by a sincere desire to protect Gov- sense is going to tell any American, bankrupt, their whole systems. ernment property from scandal or Mr. Speaker, that the 8,160 foot square ‘‘Dr. Tony Fauci told me just a few abuse and, of course, not by sincere foot Mellon auditorium, this beautiful weeks ago up at NIH—I met some of conviction that all Members of Con- hall is only 7,600, Senate Chamber 4,300, the lucky patients up there, they gress should prevent our Congress from 8,160. When filled with 2000-plus writh- called themselves lucky; I had to wince giving bad example to the youth of our ing, bumping and grinding dancers, at that one—he told me that there are Nation by sending them the destruc- hundreds of them half naked, that is now many young homosexuals becom- tive message that promiscuous sex, anything but a gift of love. ing HIV-positive because of mere frus- hetero, homosexual, bi-, tri- or com- ‘‘I would like to show you that non- tration, mere annoyance, at having to mune sex is normal and healthy and offensive picture in color there, blowup avoid AIDS with less risky sex. So regularly allowed to showcase itself in of one of the slides, unless of course mentally exhausted with safer sodomy, our taxpayer-owned buildings. you define lust as love, which is kind of they succumb to high-risk lust for this ‘‘I repeat, we have learned the hard similar to a Member of Congress using inevitable fate. way that the wages of that sinful mes- love as an excuse to responding to an ‘‘Mr. GUNDERSON says we must not sage is death, 360,000 and counting. ad in a homosexual newspaper which lecture one another if there is to re- ‘‘So Mr. GUNDERSON tells this Cham- was signed off by ‘hot bottom.’ main any element of mutual respect, ber and, through C–SPAN, the Nation ‘‘That is not love, that is lust. unquote. Well, if lecturing is out, fine. ‘‘Just why would I have animus and that I am out to smear. Then I simply plead with young Ameri- not a homosexual jamboree? Fair ques- ‘‘I read to you, Mr. Speaker, what cans at risk stop hurting one another, tion, easy answer. Justice Scalia said in his dissenting stop killing one another, stop the ‘‘The gentleman from, Mr. GUNDER- opinion about this animus. Scalia promiscuity. This goes for young SON, claimed the Cherry Hop raised writes in his opinion that Coloradans heterosexuals: Stop the dangerous and about $50,000. Forty-five; I have just are entitled to be hostile toward homo- the unhealthy conduct. Stop holding talked to the Whitman-Walker Clinic. sexual conduct and that the court’s up homosexual conduct or heterosexual Again he claimed, or he said that, and portrayal of Coloradans as a society sleeping around before the youth of our think about this, Mr. Speaker, $45,000. fallen victim to pointless, hate-filled country as wholesome and normal and If just one person after a night of, gay bashing is so false as to be comical. healthy. quote, copping feels; that is the de- Comical, he writes. ‘‘Yes, there should not be hostile ‘‘Mr. Speaker, Justice Scalia thought scription by an anonymous homosexual Roscoe—I am sorry, using the first his opinion to be so important he took columnist reporting on the hop for the name on military bases—thank you for the time to read it in its totality aloud homosexual metro weekly paper that amendment. I think it is going to to the Supreme Court, and it was much quoted in the Times after Mr. GUNDER- survive. longer than the majority decision. SON’s remarks, after a night of copping ‘‘Let me turn around another Please reflect on Justice Scalia’s feels on the dance floor, if just one Gunderson insult. He accused me of words, Mr. Speaker. He is saying that human being after furtively sharing a trying to personally destroy those with you and I and all Coloradans are enti- little cocaine, and it is all in the re- whom I might disagree. Well, those of tled, he even italicized that word in his port, with an all too friendly drug trip- us who truly believe that we are our opinion, entitled to be hostile toward per in a latrine stall, if only one person brother’s keepers, and I thought that is conduct, not hostile toward any person after that gala back in a motel or a why we all ran for election here, to but hostile toward the conduct. hotel shared the virus that keeps on ‘‘Only craven, cowardly bullies hurt giving, the fatal AIDS virus, then that help our brothers and sisters. I am not or bash individuals, and they should be mere $45,000 raised is but a drop in the trying to destroy your risk-takers; try- severely punished with the full force of bucket. It is not even half a year. ing to save your immortal souls and the law. A law-abiding citizen does not ‘‘For one person who does not even your mortal lives in the measure. even physically abuse a guilty drunk have AIDS yet, if they are in one of our ‘‘Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from driver at an accident scene involving hopeful Government programs, they Wisconsin, [Mr. GUNDERSON], said I had the death or injury of a child, and that would not even cover the fraction of a large hand in intentionally misrepre- is a pretty tough provocation. He the cost that one single AIDS patient senting facts and falsifying informa- makes a citizen’s arrest and grits his would require through his medical de- tion. He repeated that 6 times. For the teeth and cries and waits for the police. cline and death. record, these salacious advertise- ‘‘So let me state for the RECORD ‘‘I hope you get that because the ments—I was going to show them—at again, Mr. Speaker, before a million or head of the Whitman-Walker Clinic, my side are exactly what I am talking so people at this time of night watch- Jim Graham, in a very pleasant con- about when I criticize the melee at the ing, and I am not referring to any indi- versation tonight, did not get it. He Mellon. Cherry Jubilee consisted of vidual in particular. It is the conduct, said it is not where you get, it is if you three inclusive events. stupid, or it is the conduct, sweetheart. got it. You come together in a Federal ‘‘Mr. Speaker, I will put in the ‘‘Mr. GUNDERSON knows in his heart building and one person gets it, there RECORD the 3 phases of this weekend. I of hearts, I hope, that, if he were being goes all the money from the whole will call to people’s mind the Tailhook physically assaulted out there on the event, and Mr. GUNDERSON said they incident; as ugly as that was, the out- street, BOB DORNAN would be one of the spent $14,000 on the lights alone, just rageous double standard that we tol- very first, if not the first, to defend and on the lighting. You should have seen erate, given the code of honor that we protect him even at the risk of my life, the place that night. All those six mas- Americans demand from our military, even limping all the way. And if you sive door columns lighted with the how pathetically low our standard of doubt that, just ask Congressman lights of the rainbow. ethics is here and in the Senate. Even CUNNINGHAM, Congressman MORAN and ‘‘Now, God demands compassion and Packwood avoided being expelled for about a half dozen of our Capitol Hill prayers for the infected patient and for over a year. Then he quit, among tear- Police Officers. the dying. Jesus commands it. What ful goodbyes: ‘‘I, like most Americans, I am sorry, you do for these the least among you, ‘‘Goodbye, Mr. Abortion, good bye, I do have an animus toward homo- do for me. Every AIDS victim lying in Mr. Womanizer, good riddance.

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‘‘I talk about the second event, the vironment in the history of mankind, truthfulness, and my motives by the main event, talk about my going down had his career ended. retiring Member from Wisconsin’s there, talking to this wonderful lady ‘‘No sink back for you, war hero, and Third District, Mr. GUNDERSON. who has had the main stewardship you weren’t even at the event. ‘‘His verbal attacks on me last May under the GSA, not, as Mr. GUNDERSON ‘‘Well, we do not think you were 14, from this very lectern, have worked said, Commerce, the GSA how they tough enough on it, and that is 5 years their way throughout the national balked at her asking him to wrap it up ago, when we are still destroying the media. He compounded his insults by at midnight. Then she tried to com- careers of people who put their lives on telling a stringer for The Washington promise, 1 o’clock, and finally it was 9 the line to die for freedom of speech. Post, according to her puff piece on hours till 6 a.m., on the Lord’s day. But nobody pays attention to this ma- him, printed on, Sunday, June 2, that I ‘‘Then I talk about the recovery jestic auditorium down there. am, quote, ‘‘full of prejudice and ha- brunch; that is their name; supposedly ‘‘Eyewitnesses. Boy, Mr. Speaker, I tred.’’ That’s so far over the line, Mr. at the Longworth. I guess the gen- have got a great close here about Abra- Speaker, that it necessitates a 40-can- tleman from Wisconsin, [Mr. GUNDER- ham, Moses, a couple of lines from, as non broadside in response. SON], realized he needed a bigger venue, I said, the Ten Commandments. It will ‘‘Mr. Speaker, it’s worth noting, that violated all of our House rules about all be in the RECORD tomorrow. I hope in more than 16 years of service to- nothing in the courtyard at Rayburn some of my colleagues assign a staffer gether, Mr. GUNDERSON and I have till 4:00, started at 1:00. They blocked to read it if they are too busy to. It never exchanted cross words off this the reporter, Marc Morano, from going lays out the whole case with other eye- floor, nor have we ever been impolite, in. witnesses, and then it comes to discourteous, or uncivil toward each ‘‘I stood in front of that Mellon; this STEVE’S words, that this was the love other—not once. Mr. Gunderson will is where I tried to have a joint House- of God personified. Wow. That is not confirm this. Just ask him. In fact, ask Senate session for Mr. Gorbachev. No my American tradition, to paraphrase anyone around here and, if they’re hon- dictator had ever spoken there where him, or my American family. It sure as est, they will tell you that I am one of Churchill and MacArthur stood. So I hell and heaven is not my Judeo-Chris- the most cheerful, optimistic, enthusi- knew this Mellon years ago; was 87, tian ethic or code of ethics. This does astic, upbeat, irrepressible, good na- and yet I stopped, I was the lead man, not represent the God of Abraham or tured, and affable Members with whom with a little help from Mr. GINGRICH Moses up there in the central place of they serve. And loyal. Yes, for certain, and Mr. WALKER—to be truthful, not honor, full-faced, marbled, looking I’m passionate at times, and, yes, unre- much help; it was my show. I stopped right at me right now. lenting in my deep concern about the Gorbachev. I did not want him here. ‘‘He is looking at you too, Mr. Speak- deterioration of our culture. And that Some of my colleagues yelled to me in er. This does not represent the God of concern is sometimes dismissed in a the elevator, ‘Well, I want to hear what love, certainly not the Father of Jesus negative way by a few adversaries he has to say, Bob.’ I said, ‘Good. You or love in any faith I have ever heard around here, and often spun negatively ever heard of the Mellon Auditorium?’ of. This is pagan in every sense of that by doctrinaire liberals in the media This is 9 years ago. ‘Let’s go down word. This is a bad rerun of worshiping who care little about objective truth or there; it’s bigger than the House floor.’ Mailik and Baal. the real intent of a heart that even ‘‘Well, I went down there, and this ‘‘Mr. Speaker, the tension between some detractors have called a lovely lady told me, and I do not want me and three of our colleagues here, I braveheart. As I’ve pointed out occa- to get her in trouble, that the next day guess, is a reflection of the national de- sionally to supportive friends, my pas- was a pig sty, that the floor was cov- bate on our moral spiritual decline. It sion is only seen as unusual, even in ered with a slime from mixed drinks. It is a debate that seems to have been, this historic debate chamber that’s was a whole bigger floor than this. She temporarily, I pray, stifled, if not weathered a civil war, because today so says they called the Whitman-Walker snuffed out, in the great Democratic many Members of Congress lack pas- Clinic; he admitted this to me on the Party, very much alive in my Repub- sion about anything, in spite of that phone today. He said, ‘Well, we cleaned lican party. Some people rub their violent world out there. Also because it up; didn’t we?’ And it is Sunday at hands waiting for a big fight in San there are so many here, who, while as- triple time, out of AIDS money that Diego, but there can be no compromise piring to be nobles, have no heart, let has been raised, triple time. They had in this struggle. alone a brave one, and turn a deaf ear to go down there and clean it while 600 ‘‘Members in this institution, a lot of to William Butler Yeats’ warning that of the 2,000 of the partiers were recov- them, on all the moral issues, even par- ‘everywhere the ceremony of innocence ering in our Rayburn courtyard. tial-birth infanticide to go away; there is drowned.’ ‘‘And that Mellon is straight across are some even more laid back, if not ‘‘First, a brief prolog. The trigger for from the National Museum of Amer- cowardly, who say, so what? That is a Mr. GUNDERSON’s point of personal ican History, on our No. 1 boulevard, Carvillean quote, I guess, ‘So what?’ privilege was my ‘Dear Colleague’ let- Constitution. I paced it off, 106 paces to And I pity the children in the love de- ter, circulating a factual report on a the north wall of the American History partment with people who say, ‘So so-called ‘homosexual circuit party’ of Museum, and guess what is on the what?’ more than 2,000 bumping and grinding other side of that wall? Old Glory, the ‘‘Unfortunately, a struggle over the partyers misusing the largest Federal Star Spangled Banner, the original virtue, the future of our Nation as a auditorium is our capital on April 13 to that Francis Scott Key wrote. It is 30 land of godly people, can only subside celebrate licentious and lewd behavior, by 34 feet. It is on the wall facing the when one side wins and the other loses, at the mockingly named ‘Cherry Jubi- Mellon. And what did he write in the and history tells us that the battle will lee.’ Star Spangled Banner? ‘In God we wax and wane until the Second Com- ‘‘Mr. Speaker, after a fair evaluation trust.’ There are the words up there: ing. of all available facts, I can unequivo- ‘In God we trust.’ It is Constitution Av- ‘‘I know what I am doing by getting cally state that the report issued by enue; as my colleagues know, along out of here, I know the danger it holds journalist Marc Morano is true and ac- with Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Ave- for me and my large family. I will fin- curate. Let me repeat that. Contrary nue, it is the No. 1 boulevard for this ish in an hour special order next week. to Mr. GUNDERSON’s absurd, second- country. Enjoy your Fourth of July, and I wel- hand defense of the 9 hour display of ‘‘Put the rest in the record here. come anybody to come over and debate hedonism at the majestic Andrew W. ‘‘Continues the description of that me and see if we can slow down the Mellon Auditorium, the eye-witness, whole wild night. Sad. death of 360,000 and counting. multi-corroborated account of reporter ‘‘And Mr. Graham told me they are ‘‘Mr. Speaker, I rise to a question of Marc Morano is unassailable. And to going to do it again next April in one personal privilege. ensure that there are no misunder- of our Federal buildings. Think ‘‘Mr. Speaker, I rise to claim my standings about the substance and ac- Tailhook. The careers of four-star ad- privilege under House Rule IX, section curacy of Mr. Morano’s report, I am mirals, one of them with 400 combat 1, to address the House in reply to the going to read that vivid account for missions in the most dangerous air en- scurrilous attacks on my honor, my you now.

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‘‘An all night homosexual ‘‘circuit’’ bians lifted her bra and exposed her legal drug use was allowed to occur in party called ‘‘Cherry Jubilee’’ ‘‘Main breasts. Meanwhile, several inflated a federal building on the 253rd anniver- Event’’ took place in Washington, D.C. condoms were batted about like sary of Thomas Jefferson’s birthday.’ on April 13, 1996. The dance party fea- volleyballs. ‘‘Now, ironically, Mr. Speaker, this tured public nudity, illicit sexual ac- ‘At about 4 am, two men proceeded disgraceful misuse of taxpayer-owned tivity and evidence of illegal drug use. engage in illicit sexual behavior in the property might never have happened if The sponsors of the homosexual festivi- main auditorium. One man lowered his I had come to this well and alerted ties included a GOP congressman and a head (onto the crotch of another man Congress to a growing phenomenon of host of corporations. A federal building and began to perform oral sex). This misuse of Federal facilities to advance the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, act occurred just off the dance in full homosexuality, and exposed a prior played host***and was the back- view of the crowd. No one seemed to be outrage at the majestic Andrew W. drop for the illegal activity. The spon- fazed by it one bit. Mellon Auditorium back on April 25, sors included***American Airlines, ‘The restroom stalls at the Mellon 1993, when an all day, sadism freak Snapple, Miller Lite Beer, Starbucks Auditorium were constantly being oc- show defiled the auditorium and our Coffee, and Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream. cupied by two men at a time. (Gropes Capital City. I also should have alerted The ‘‘Main Event’’ was followed by a and groans) could be heard emanating Congress to a June 1995 abuse of the ‘‘Capitol Hill Recovery Brunch’’ in the from the stalls with double occupancy. impressive headquarters building of Rayburn House Office building. Rep- Stall doors would open and two men the Department of Interior. I was di- resentative Gunderson secured the would nonchalantly exit. verted from reporting on this latter Rayburn building for the ‘‘recovery ‘Every conceivable isolated spot be- outrage by the pace of House voting, brunch.’’ came a dilemma for security. Security the Presidential race, and my chair- ‘The Mellon Auditorium is a tax- officers had to diligently watch the manship of two very active subcommit- payer owned and federally operated outside side courtyard stairwell in the tees. building complete with classical ornate smoking area. The steps led down to a ‘‘Last year, throughout the month of Doric columns directly across the dark basement alley way on the side of June, in the impressive lobby of the In- street from the Museum of American the building where many of the men terior Department, there was an in- History on Constitution Avenue. The were congregating. The progression of your-face display glorifying homosex- ‘‘Main Event’’ was being described by couples heading into the darkness uality. A large, lavender painted, free- the City Paper as a ‘‘New York style eventually forced security to inter- standing billboard praised, with large homosexual circuit party***usually vene. Orange cones were placed to close photographs, four homosexuals high in drug infested.’’ the area off, as a security officer was our Government and held them up as ‘Main Event’ tickets were very hard assigned to stand watch. Public urina- role models. One, a female, is no longer to come by. The event sold out, which tion was common as the men relieved in Washington having left to lose an left a scramble for ticket scalpers out- themselves outside and even in front of election in San Francisco. Another is side the entrance. Two thousand men the stately building facing Constitu- still an Assistant Secretary at the Pat- attended, most between the ages of 25– tion Avenue. * * * ent Office. And the other two are male 35 years old. Many of the men who at- ‘Despite signs posted everywhere homosexuals serving here in Congress. tended were of obvious affluence. Lim- stating, ‘‘Use or possession of illegal Unfortunately, the short bios under the ousines and even a Rolls Royce lined substances strictly forbidden,’’ evi- Congressmen’s photos were lies. The Constitution Avenue as the party goers dence of illegal drug use was present. bios deceptively stated that both Con- arrived. Snorting could be heard throughout gressmen courageously came out of pri- ‘The clothing was trendy with skin the evening in the restroom stalls. At vacy and voluntarily, with great pride, tight black jeans and tanktops. The one point a straw fell on to the bath- revealed their homosexuality here on bartenders wore bright neon underwear room floor from inside a stall. There the floor of Congress. Of course, the and nothing else. Many of the men ar- was also clandestine exchanges of truth is quite different, Mr. Speaker. rived with leather and rubber pants money and substances in dark corners One of them was censured by this and neon rubber loin cloth underwear of the dance floor throughout the House for his statutory rape of a 16- only. Most of the shirts came off as the night. year-old boy, one of our pages, and Sec- men headed for the dance floor. ‘Despite the flaunting of public nu- retary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt ‘Body piercing was ubiquitous with dity, illicit sexual activity, and illegal knows that; and the other Member was piercing in nipples, navels and ears. drug use at both of these homosexual severely reprimanded by the House for Chains and dog collars were also preva- events, (April 1993 and April 1996) law conduct unbecoming a Congressman lent. Cross dressing was common sight, enforcement never intervened. Con- because of his involvement with a male as a heavy presence of transvestites trast this with the controversy that in- prostitute-pimp who was running a full and other ‘‘transgendered’’ men at- evitably follows when someone at- service procurement operation out of tended. Men with wigs and dresses in tempts to celebrate Christmas with a the Member’s D.C. apartment, that and heavy make up strolled through the nativity scene in a public building or much more. The eccentric Bruce Bab- auditorium. Several pairs of lesbians park (or the Tailhook scandal which bitt also knew that ugly tale. Babbitt attended as well, parading in very took place in a private Hilton Hotel). authorized the homosexual propaganda skimpy clothing. ‘* * * The April 1996 Cherry Jubilee display knowing that neither Member ‘Most attendees greeted each other weekend proves that the homosexual of Congress came out of secrecy freely, with open mouth kisses. No fights or agenda is advancing in Washington. but were brought out of privacy by altercations***the men were gen- The use of two federal buildings during crimes. This outrage at the Interior erally very neat, with meticulous hair the Cherry Jubilee weekend in Wash- Department building went unchal- and clothing. There were few if any ington, D.C. reveals how successful the lenged here in Congress, and therefore men who could be described as over- homosexual lobby has been in went unknown to American taxpayers. weight. ‘‘mainstreaming’’ their agenda. Voters, If I had protested those prior abuses of ‘As the constant thump, thump, consumers and stockholders should taxpayer-owned facilities, just maybe, thump of the techno music heated the hold the government and corporations 10 months later, a similar outrage crowd, the dancing became increas- such as American Airlines accountable wouldn’t have taken place on Constitu- ingly lewd and suggestive. As the night when they underwrite events like Cher- tion Avenue, again at the beautifully wore on, the dancers began simulated ry Jubilee. The voters need to ask gilded Mellon Auditorium. sexual gyrations. The dance floor be- which side of the ‘‘culture war’’ the Re- ‘‘Better late than never. came a torrent of intense groping and publican Party is on and what real ‘‘So Mr. Speaker, I now step out into stroking. Some couples dancing on change the so-called ‘‘GOP Revolution’’ the minefields of evil political correct- table tops, mimicked anal sex through has wrought. The GOP leadership on ness, alone, but I hope and pray, not their clothing while others panto- Capitol Hill needs to explain how an alone for long. Come Holy Spirit. On mimed oral sex. At one point while event which featured illicit sexual ac- May 2, last month, here in our awe-in- dancing on a table top, one of the les- tivity, public nudity and evidence of il- spiring Rotunda, America’s secular ca-

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Mr. Roberts’ GORE and his wife Tipper, Speaker rity.’ Well, I did not on the House final statement to me just a few days NEWT GINGRICH, former Senate Leader Floor. But now, let the facts speak for ago: ‘There was no uncontrollable sob- Bob Dole and his wife Elizabeth, and themselves. bing.’ all of our congressional leaders includ- ‘‘Let’s start with Mr. GUNDERSON’s ‘‘So much for Mr. GUNDERSON’s re- ing Mr. ARMEY, Mr. GEPHARDT, Mr. reporting skills. He reports that noth- porting skills, and of course, his loy- DELAY, Mr. BONIOR, Senators LOTT and ing illegal took place at a frenetic alty. DASCHLE and all of the other Senate party he did not even attend. By com- ‘‘Mr. GUNDERSON whines that leaders, and dozens of Members of both parison, let’s analyze his anonymous straight Members, such as I, unfairly Houses, Rev. Billy Graham stated with report to the Washington Post of a use, quote, ‘stereotypes,’ unquote, great emotion, ‘We are a nation on the meeting of seven Republicans that he when analyzing homosexual conduct. brink of self-destruction.’ I repeat Dr. did attend. The relevancy to my point Well, Mr. Speaker, just what would be Graham: America is ‘a nation on the of privilege will be self-evident, Mr. considered typical versus stereotypical brink of self-destruction.’ A national Speaker. conduct? How about getting fired from poll last month stated that 76 percent ‘‘Let me defend our Speaker, my your very first Federal job for an office of our fellow Americans believe that friend Mr. GINGRICH from a vicidusly morale-destroying, homosexual tryst our country is ‘in spiritual and moral exaggerated, self-serving tale that the with the chief of staff? How about a decline.’ This Member of Congress front page. 1991 public news report of a drink- agrees. I am one of the 76 percent. ‘‘Here is the January 18, 1996, edition throwing squabble at an inside-the- ‘‘I love my country and I’m sick at of the Washington Post. Look at this beltway homosexual hangout, which heart at its lack of direction in moral front page story. Preferred position— was about to be closed because of the matters, in state and civic affairs in- first story, upper left, two columns, pornographic pictures on its walls? volving character. For example, I beg lead title ‘Inside the Revolution,’ I How about a more recent drink throw- my colleagues to read carefully this quote the largest headline, ‘Stung and ing rerun at an S/M bar, that’s a sa- cover article in the June 17 edition of Beset, Speaker Breaks Down and dism bar, on December 17, 1995? That’s the Weekly Standard. It’s titled Weeps,’ by Michael Weisskopf and last December, just 6 months ago. ‘Pedophilia Chic.’ The norming of foul David Maraniss. Maraniss is the author Again the barroom altercation created perversion. It seems that no longer is of the incendiary book ‘Inside the sleazy newspaper stories involving a there any conduct considered a flat out White House.’ U.S. Congressman. Is that considered evil. In our liberal popular culture, ‘‘This supposed news story, that pur- classy conduct? Does it diminish the hardly any cultural taboos remain. The portedly was about the dropping of integrity of our Congress as a whole? words ‘objective disorder’ fall on deaf wildly obscure ethics charges against You bet it does. What would happen to ears at the networks and at the New the Speaker, I soon learned was exag- an officer in the U.S. military involved York Times. gerated to the point of grotesque un- in similar bar squabbles? Is this ‘‘On May 14, 12 days after Rev. Billy truth. Quote, ‘An old congressional stereotypical behavior or just typical? Graham’s warning, Mr. GUNDERSON ally who had stopped by the office to ‘‘And don’t you just loathe the ‘typ- rose on this House floor to a question talk about farm issues rose from his ical’ double entendre names of some of of personal privilege. In a ‘Dear Col- chair and hugged them both (the these homosexual watering holes? ‘The league’ and at this lectern, Mr. Speaker and his wife). Gingrich could Green Lantern.’ What’s that mean? GUNDERSON repeatedly called me a no longer hold back his emotions. He Come and get it, all systems are green liar—using other words—and impugned began sobbing uncontrollably.’ the and go! ‘The Badlands’—do they really my character with the use of words Post reports. know in their hearts that trolling bars such as ‘smear,’ ‘lies’ and ‘biased con- ‘‘Now, whom do you think that old is ‘bad’ for them? How about the bars duct’ and ‘an intentional efforts to per- congressional ally was, Mr. Speaker? with hot tubs and private two-man cu- sonally destroy.’ Specifically, Mr. That so-called ‘ally’ who went to the bicles in upper rooms and side cham- GUNDERSON claimed that ‘the gen- Washington Post and grossly distorted bers—the same types of bathhouses I tleman from California has no right to private emotion in the Speaker’s office helped to close with near unanimous misrepresent the facts, in this, his lat- was none other than STEVE GUNDERSON. legislation on this floor back in 1985— est attempt to smear the homosexual The truth was twisted, much to Speak- those non-Glory Holes had particularly community.’ Unquote. Of course, he er GINGRICH’s detriment, and the dis- offensive names such as: ‘The used the adjective ‘gay’ as a noun in tortion did damage to the Speaker’s Mineshaft,’ ‘The Anvil,’ and worse. Are place of the neutral, nonpropaganda reputation, his manliness, and raised those bathhouse dives typical or noun ‘homosexual.’ Seven times he the question of his emotional stability. stereotypical? used the phrase ‘misrepresent the That’s some ally, Mr. Speaker. And it ‘‘Mr. Speaker, since Mr. GUNDERSON facts.’ wasn’t even true. said I questioned his integrity, let us ‘‘Mr. GUNDERSON’s words or vari- ‘‘Obviously, ‘sobbing uncontrollably’ thoughtfully analyze this word ‘integ- ations thereof were repeated in many is not the John Wayne image a leader rity.’ In the May 13, 1996, edition of one news stories throughout America in- hopes to maintain in order to lead 435 of our military newspapers, the fol- cluding the Washington Times, the men and women of very strong wills, lowing powerful thoughts were ex- Washington Post, Congress Daily, and many with very single minded disposi- pressed by a four star leader in an arti- the Associated Press which moved his tions. cle on ‘integrity.’ His article also cov- slanders from sea to shining sea. In my ‘‘A supposed ally ratting out a lead- ered ‘honesty’ and ‘courage’ and ‘pro- home county newspaper, the Orange er, as a blubbering softie, would by fessionalism.’ County Register, a reporter embel- itself be disloyal in the extreme, but ‘‘I want to quote a few germane para- lished on the slander, ‘Gunderson * * * when it’s not even true that is indic- graphs for this reason: the so-called called the Dornan effort a character as- ative of an ally who is ‘integrity chal- Tailhook Scandal, still bedeviling and sassination’ and the Register reporter lenged.’ Mr. GUNDERSON’s problem, as a ripping our great U.S. Navy, is 5 years repeated Mr. GUNDERSON’s absurd and volunteer informant for a liberal news- old, 5 years old, and it is still destroy- obnoxious charge that I am out to, paper, was that there were other eye- ing careers. Imagine for a moment, Mr. quote, ‘smear the homosexual commu- witnesses in the Speaker’s office during Speaker, if the out-of-control homo- nity.’ the nonsobbing, such as Representative sexual romp that we judge today had ‘‘Mr. Speaker, this is all so low-life, and soon-to-be Kansas Senator, PAT happened on any U.S. military base or this attack on my honor, that I am en- ROBERTS, and my hard charging col- post anywhere throughout the world.

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What would the repercussions have of [military] service; or to accept the fice because the political leaders in been? Batten down the hatches. That resulting limits on individual behav- their States know their secret. thought gives new, sickening meaning ior—then get out! ‘‘And then there was the Hill staffer to the words ‘double standard.’ But, ‘Our responsibility for safeguarding who was fired from his very first Fed- first, those powerful words from a real America is far too important and too eral job in 1979 for a homosexual affair leader, a four-star, combat-tested Chief critical to allow it to be jeopardized by with an administrative assistant, his of Staff. Apply his challenging those unwilling to measure up. AA, bringing about the expected and thoughts to U.S. Congressmen and Sen- ‘‘Mr. Speaker, I will revisit in my usual collapse of office morale due to ators. closing words three of those powerful favoritism. Their liaison even included ‘The majority of our members under- sentences and identify the flag officer a mock honeymoon to Jamaica. This stand well that integrity is essential in who delivered them. Mr. Speaker, no staffer returned a year and a half later [military] an organization where we one believes that any Member of Con- as an elected Congressman and had a count on fellow members and that hon- gress is risking his or her life by serv- 16-year run until his double life became esty is the glue that binds the members ing in the Senate or the House, so how known. Now, although 15 years from re- into a cohesive team. dare we live by a lower, a much lower, tirement age, he can’t run for reelec- ‘And they easily take responsibility standard of ethics and professionalism tion, although he yearns to do so and for their actions and exhibit the cour- than we demand of our younger mili- would have ended up as chairman of a age to do the right thing. tary men and women who serve under major House committee. ‘Yes, most [Air Force] professionals our jurisdiction, and who do risk their ‘‘This list does not include several place service before self and willingly very lives. A slim majority of Members Members who are deep in privacy, prob- subordinate personal interests for the of Congress allow thousands of troopers ably a credit to their good judgment. good of their unit, [the Air Force] and of our 1st Armored Division to be sent One of our Members from New England the Nation and, if called upon, are will- by Clinton into harm’s way in Bosnia, claims they’re all Republicans. He’s ing to risk their lives in defense of the and yet our Congress ignores garbage quite a bloodhound, this Member. And United States. like this ‘Cherry romp’ of hedonism he periodically threatens to expose— ‘Furthermore, professionals in our right here down on Constitution Ave- out he calls it—these 4 or 5 Members— service strive to excel in all that they nue. Our toleration of low standards actually he claims 12 or more, if they do, always understanding that our re- here in Congress is at the core of my don’t vote the way he insists on certain sponsibility for America’s security car- challenge today. Our Federal buildings security risk issues. He also threatens ries with it the moral imperative to must never, never be used to facilitate to out them if Chairman DORNAN dares seek excellence in all our [military] ac- and glorify immorality. We in Congress to hold hearings on whether people are tivities. are culpable, for any immorality tak- a security risk if they conceal scan- ‘* * * Because of what we do, our ing place on public property in Wash- dalous personal secrets such as alco- standards must be higher than those ington, if we fail as custodians of these holism, financial chicanery, adultery, that prevail in society at large. beautiful citizen owned buildings. And or bisexuality. Isn’t that a form of not- (Shouldn’t this mean Congress, Mr. what dangerous path are we following so-subtle blackmail, Mr. Speaker? Speaker?) The American people expect if we dismiss the consequences of glori- ‘‘Yes, my colleagues, homosexuality this of us, and rightly so. In the end, fying homosexuality here in Wash- is sad, not happy or gay, even when our behavior must merit their trust, ington, DC, our capital. someone’s career has brought them to respect and support. ‘‘My colleagues need only reflect on these hallow Chambers. ‘[Air Force] leaders [commanders] the lives of those Members of Congress, ‘‘And why do we fear discussing, here and supervisors must ensure that their past and present, who found, or still in Congress, what spreads the AIDS colleagues [troops] understand the re- find, homosexuality alluring, if not ad- virus? How many will have died by quirements of our [military] profes- dictive. Three of our Members have mid-year 1996? Dr. C. Everett Koop ad- sion—and measure up to them. * * * died from AIDS. Another barely es- vises us to include AIDS death statis- ‘* * * when an individual exhibits caped expulsion while suffering the dis- tics about 20,000 individuals who suc- personal negligence, misbehavior (or honor of a severe House censure for cumbed to AIDS in the early eighties disobedience), this is not a mistake! seducing a minor, i.e., the statutory and whose physicians, attempting to That is a crime, and crimes are mat- rape of that teenage page sent here by understandably avoid family embar- ters of serious concern for superiors. his parents in our care. And, by the rassment, reported those deaths as the ‘In short, if a service member will- way, that young page was seduced on a result of final condition such as cancer fully ignores standards, falsifies re- codel to Spain. How was that outrage or pneumonia, rather than report them ports, engages in inappropriate off- put together? I’ve never heard of a page as AIDS-related deaths. If we tally duty behavior, then we must imme- traveling with a domestic congres- those 20,000 in the aggregate total, diately take appropriate disciplinary sional delegation let alone with an then in just a few days, by June 30, action’’—certainly that would include overseas congressional delegation. 1996, 360,000 Americans, including more hitting on teenage pages? ‘‘Another Member was dishonored than 4,000 defenseless children, will ‘* * * as a force, we must insist on with a severe House reprimand for have died a horrible death brought disciplined and principled behavior. sponsoring and using a pimp and is about by an infectious fatal venereal ‘When an individual fails to meet the pitied by those who have a West Point disease known by the bland sounding higher standards expected of [military] sense of honor. Both Members should acronym, AIDS. Mr. Speaker, World professionals, then we must hold him have been expelled so as to maintain War II total combat deaths, total or her accountable and document the the world’s respect for our U.S. Con- killed in action, were 292,131; U.S. offense in their records * * *.’ And re- gress, not to mention the Nation’s re- AIDS deaths toll 360,000 and counting. visit it if provoked again. spect. Two other Members saw their U.S. Civil War combat deaths, both ‘Ours is not a ‘‘have it your way’’ careers ended by election defeats after sides, North and South because all kind of service. Members cannot be al- they were discovered trolling for teen- combatants were Americans, our War lowed to pick and choose which aspects agers at so-called hot action bars, one Between the States killed in action, of our [Air Force] standards, [Air of them a father of three teenagers. 214,938; U.S. AIDS 360,00 and counting. Force] instructions, Defense Depart- Even if they had only hit on 18, 19, or And all seven of our other wars from ment directives or the Uniform Code of even 20-year-olds, that is still the Revolutionary War, the War of Military Justice laws they will comply ephebephilia. Look the word up, Mr. 1812, war with Mexico, with Spain, with. Speaker. Ephebephilia, like pedophilia, World War I, Korea through Vietnam, ‘That would undermine the good is a mortal sin of seduction, a trans- total killed in action, 143,346. That’s 7 order and discipline that is so crucial gression against teenage youths 18 and wars of KIA, 143,346; U.S. AIDS, 360,000 to any outfit. If you are unwilling—to 19 years old. Study the decay of clas- dead and counting. And the death toll comply with our [Air Force] standards; sical Greek culture. Then there are is far worse in Asia and Africa—world- to embrace the values of our profes- four Members who stay in privacy but wide over 5 million dead, and counting. sion; to meet the unique requirements can never aspire to run for higher of- And this unparalleled killer has been

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And, except for, sadly, the inno- in the Hebrew faith, and a ‘jubilee’ is a victim, and we’re all in this together, cent victims of lying philanderers, who 25-year celebration of joyful prayer in it’s everybody’s disease’ or rather callously infected their unknowing my Catholic faith, that same Catholi- champion the honorable approach of partners in the name of love. It’s con- cism that is the No. 1 target of Actup, heavyweight prizefighter Tommy Mor- duct driven. the homosexual gestapo. No act of ha- rison, who stated through tears, ‘It’s ‘‘Mr. Speaker, how can I, a God-fear- tred or desecration is beyond the pale my fault. My conduct. My immoral be- ing American, a very lucky husband of for Act Up, including blasphemy and havior. If I can save one young person 41 years, a father of 5 stalwart, God- desecration of the Holy Eucharist, in- from doing what I did and stop them loving adult children, a grandfather of side churches. from becoming infected with this kill- 10—No. 11 is in the hanger—and a very ‘‘It is also my intent to reassert the ing disease, then my suffering will not hard-working double House chairman truth regarding the April 13 Saturday be in vain.’ who is trying his best to slow the AIDS dance, and, Mr. Speaker, we’re not ‘‘Where was Mr. GUNDERSON or any death toll, how could I possibly smear talking ballroom dancing here, so that other Member in 1986 when I pleaded homosexual activists, as Mr. GUNDER- the real facts will not remain in ques- with colleagues to come to Paris with SON accuses, given what they’ve done tion by anyone misled by Mr. GUNDER- me to visit the Louis Pasteur Clinic to and continue to do to themselves? SON about what really went on. investigate the exploding AIDS pan- ‘‘In that June 2 Washington Post ‘‘Of course, this was not the first demic? Where were they when I went to Magazine story, Mr. GUNDERSON as- time this historic Federal building has Geneva that year with my wife Sallie serts, ‘[DORNAN is] full of prejudice and been desecrated during Clinton’s ten- to learn all that we could about this hatred.’ That one quote alone would ure, as Mr. GUNDERSON briefly conceded health nightmare by asking for exten- justify my point of personal privilege. in his attack. When he referred to April sive briefings at the World Health Or- And in another Post attribution, ap- 25, 1993, he twice used the letters ‘S and ganization? How about visits to the parently in the same breath, Mr. M,’ without explaining what the letters Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta? GUNDERSON muses, and I quote, ‘Is stand for. What Mr. GUNDERSON re- How many times has any Member, to [DORNAN] dangerous? Sure. Because he ferred to was a sadism and masochism gain AIDS knowledge, visited the Na- can use passion to intimidate and to all-day freak show inside the stately tional Institutes of Health, just a short roll over those who are unwilling or Mellon. Someone, maybe some Clinton 20-minute drive north from Capitol Hill unable to stand up to him.’ Pathetic, toady, had authorized an all day to Bethesda, MD. I have made these in- Mr. Speaker. I pray for STEVE GUNDER- leatherman, S and M open house, with formative trips several times over the SON, and all others who like my col- multiple displays of perversion includ- last decade, another to NIH just last league, live on the edge, but I must ing hard care pornography slide shows month. fight back. Mr. GUNDERSON’s scurrilous promoting unsafe sodomy, maximum ‘‘What did Mr. GUNDERSON do with charges have as their intent the de- unsafe sodomy. Most of this bizarre de- his unjustified, Jim Wright-initiated, 2 struction of my reputation by branding viancy is quite foreign to average years worth of congressional pay raise my work in Congress as driven by the Americans. And all of that 1993 S and back in 1989 and 1990? Which would now twin evils of hatred and bigotry. Well, M madness was on a day when the be illegal, by the way, since we passed it won’t work, because it’s not in my Tailhook scandal tribulations were ex- James Madison’s 27th Amendment. nature to allow lies to go unanswered. panding. Well, my 2 years of those raises went to I went through jet pilot training when ‘‘During his May 14 attack, Mr. AIDS hospices. Mr. GUNDERSON was 2 years old. I GUNDERSON associates me with two ‘‘Mr. Speaker, I don’t know what Mr. marched with Dr. Martin Luther King honorable journalists, one of them a GUNDERSON does in his free time to when Mr. GUNDERSON was 12, and the courageous African-American writer, educate himself about the worldwide next year, 1964, I put my life on the the other an excellent investigative re- spread of AIDS, but I have been care- line against bigotry. Mr. Speaker, in porter. Then he attacks both of them fully tracking this health nightmare the 1800’s, when immoral dueling was as motivated by ‘hate and prejudice’ for 13 years. Just last month I visited commonplace, Mr. GUNDERSON would and by the journalism of ‘bigotry and the Armed Forces Medical Intelligence never have assaulted my honor with prejudice.’ In his attack, Mr. GUNDER- Center at Fort Detrick where I re- such vile language. It’s beyond butch, SON invited the two writers and me ‘‘to ceived a startling and tragic update to coin a phrase. come visit the victims of this (AIDS) about the exponential spread of AIDS ‘‘Mr. Speaker, the impact of casual disease’’—we’ve done that—so that we worldwide. sex propaganda and the mainstreaming might, quote, ‘learn that these are not ‘‘In just 31⁄2 years from now, 60 mil- and in rare cases even the romanti- some faceless pretty corpses,’ but rath- lion people will be HIV infected and 12 cizing of AIDS have had a deadly effect er ‘sons, brothers, uncles, lovers, and million will be suffering with full- upon our young, lately upon our very friends * * * and in increasing num- blown AIDS; sadly most of them will young, and that’s why I circulated the bers also mothers, sisters, and daugh- die with little or no medical care. And facts about the so-called circuit party ters.’ Strangely, he left out dads, dead? No one knows for certain how weekend of April 12, 13, and 14. aunts, and, in the cases of two of the many millions by 2000 A.D. I also ‘‘As a point of fact, Mr. Speaker, the Congressmen dead from AIDS, their learned the following stunning, shock- use of the word ‘cherry’ has nothing to prior roles as husbands and fathers. ing medical fact: the military forces of do with our beautiful and famous blos- ‘‘It should comfort Mr. GUNDERSON to Zimbabwe are 75 percent infected. That soms, but rather it’s used for its sexual know, if truth is his real goal, that this means three out of every four soldiers, connotation as shown in these soft-core Member from California has forgotten three out of every four officers—will pornographic ads for the 34 events. And more about the worldwide medical im- die of AIDS. Because of this, take notice, in shock I hope, of the pact of AIDS than the Member from Zimbabwe’s forces are rejected perma- large commercial, public shareholder Wisconsin has ever known. And I might nently by the United Nations for any corporations contributing to this sex- add, my colleagues say, I forget little, future peacekeeping assignments, with ual license and gross irresponsibility— if anything. According to the June 2 at least six more nations to be stig- American Airlines, Starbucks Coffee, Post article, Mr. GUNDERSON has had matized any day now on a no-go list as, Snapple, Miller Lite Beer, and Ben & four of his six closest friends waste quote, ‘unacceptable for peacekeeping Jerry’s Ice Cream. I pray to God, lit- away and die from AIDS and another is duty.’ Zimbabwe peacekeepers brought erally, that these corporate giants in- HIV positive. That’s heartbreaking, the specter of AIDS infection and death nocently followed the lead of the Whit- but obviously he has kept these trage- to Somalia. How sad, death in the man-Walker Clinic, which, if it con- dies within his inner circle and has name of peace, make love not war.

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That means more pressure on our ‘‘Now this District of Columbia is an- dren. I resent anybody out there who American, infection-free forces, to other story. Mr. GUNDERSON said that hides behind a facade of ‘caring’ just to travel worldwide on peacekeeping mis- the District has the largest concentra- fend off revelations exposing a narrow sions. Isn’t that obvious, Mr. Speaker? tion of HIV/AIDS positive people in the special interest agenda. That’s hypoc- And it’s a powerful reason to keep our country. True. Where was his voice of risy to the nth power. military 100 percent HIV/AIDS infec- warning over the last 16 years to stem ‘‘Just a few weeks ago in The Hill tion free, right, Mr. Speaker? A 100 per- or slow that AIDS growth right here newspaper there was a brief story cent no-AIDS infected military is my where we work? Since 1981, his first about how some AIDS organization has proper goal as the chairman of Military year in Congress, coincidently the year made me their number one legislative Personnel, and I take a lot of bovine NIH discovered and defined AIDS, he target for defeat this November. I won- scatology from the homosexual lobby has offered no coherent public advice der if these special interest lobbyists for my perfectly logical and fair legis- to slow this plague. No tough love— bothered to check my voting record on lation. mostly silence. No support for heavy- AIDS research and medical care fund- ‘‘Just 3 weeks ago I met once again weight fighter Tommy Morrison’s ing.I know they did, and they found with Dr. Toni Fauci, our hard-working prayerful, humble plea for morality in that I have a 100-percent record in sup- Immunology and Infectious Diseases behavior. A call for abstinence? Hardly. port of AIDS funding for research and Institute chief and one of our very best In fact, Mr. Speaker, it’s interesting care. So what could this AIDS group be researchers at NIH, to discuss a new, to note that over the last 10 years Mr. thinking in targeting me? It’s obvious. advanced HIV treatment involving IL2, GUNDERSON has spoken on this House There agenda does not have fundraising Interluken 2. It looks promising, Mr. floor about AIDS only eight times! Un- for AIDS as its primary concern. Their Speaker, just like proteus inhibitors, believable for a self-proclaimed com- priorities are driven by the activist ho- but it means more gutwrenching, ex- passionate and caring man. If you don’t mosexual agenda. They can’t stand it tremely tedious research with infected count a one-sentence-passing mention when I or anyone else tells the truth volunteers, who incidently told me of AIDS in 1989, then, amazing as it about the public policy issues sur- they felt lucky to be in this super ex- seems, his very first speech, and a rounding homosexual activism. The pensive, but promising, life-extending short one at that, was his annoying AIDS lobby rates the votes of Members government research program. It won’t March 24, 1994, ‘Christian-second-to- on bizarre issues like acceptance of be a cure however, but life extending none’ speech. That’s only 2 years ago. this phoney spin-off ‘bisexuality,’ or only. It’s tragic how the networks con- BOB DORNAN, on the other hand, has ad- total acceptance of homosexuality in stantly keep using the word cure. Dr. dressed this Chamber on the subject of every facet of American life from Fauci says this is cruel and builds false AIDS just under 200 times. That’s Mr. adopting to scouting to Big Brothers, hope. We pray for a vaccine break- GUNDERSON’s rate times 24. This speech Inc., to the sacrament of matrimony. through, but a cure for someone once today alone contains more references ‘‘Does every Member really truly, they’re infected—never. The micro-mi- to AIDS, both in quantity and quality, grasp the enormity of the suffering croscopic HIV stays inside the helper than Mr. GUNDERSON’s eight short that was involved as 360,000 Americans T-cells until death. speeches over his 16 years—all run to- slowly wasted away with AIDS? I can’t ‘‘Where was Mr. GUNDERSON or any gether. And I repeat, in 1985 I offered a fully absorb the enormity of that level other Member of the 99th Congress successful and nearly unanimous of suffering. Who but a handful among back in 1985 when I gave the first of al- amendment in this House—1985, Mr. us in Congress, until my remarks most 200 of my floor speeches warning Speaker—11 years ago—to close dis- today, knew that worldwide, in just 3 about the conduct that had contami- ease-infested unsafe-sex-with-multiple- years, 60 million people will be infected nated our blood supply and was begin- strangers-bathhouses—those aforemen- with the AIDS virus? What a ghastly ning to spread the AIDS epidemic that tioned ‘Anvils’ from hell that broke way to begin the third millennia! And year at a ferocious rate? and slowly killed so many midnight this calamity is behavior driven, con- ‘‘Has Mr. GUNDERSON ever publicly cowboys in New York City and San duct driven, no ifs, ands, or buts about discussed anywhere, unsanitary, pro- Francisco. Frankly, given this contrast that harsh truth. miscuous behavior, or ever debated in the attention that we’ve both given ‘‘Mr. Speaker, does any Member of using infected needles and the cross- to this tragic retro-various nightmare, this body know how much it costs to contaminating of both cohorts? Where the widely used homosexual, protest care for an AIDS victim throughout have these homosexual activists been bumper sticker ‘Silence Equals Death’ their sickness from the first HIV posi- over the last 15 years? Other than tell- has special resonance. I have never tive test until their death? In our ad- ing us we’re all culpable, and all at been silent because I truly believe in vanced country, on the low end, it’s risk, it’s been business as usual. And ‘tough love.’ Meaningful compassion $119,000, and that’s if they survive only there was no behavior modification to demands positive action. 3 years or less. But for several hundred speak of until the killing virus went ‘‘When Mr. GUNDERSON attacks my patients in special government pro- pandemic. Even then, many homo- belief system on what constitutes seri- grams, it’s over $100,000 per year to sexual activists pushed, and still push, ous sin and what constitutes the cor- fend off the beginning of full blown public relations mumbo-jumbo instead ruption of youngsters through bad ex- AIDS! And Mr. GUNDERSON’s friends of tried and true solid public health ample, he also attacks my religion. claim the all-night scene at the Mellon policy. Thank God, that in the final The Catholic Church and Pope John Auditorium raised a mere $50,000, actu- care stage, and during the prior ‘stage Paul II are unrelentingly slandered by ally $45,000? That’s one-half of 1 year of three’ phrase, there are now thousands the top and the middle management of care for just one government patient of homosexuals who are working tire- the homosexual food chain. However, who is only HIV positive. Not much to lessly and heroically to comfort and, thanks to God’s unrelenting love, when brag about when the homosexual yes, love, the ill, with a pure philos death is near, its back to the arms of partying cost over an admitted $80,000! love, a Christian love. God bless them. Holy Mother Church. Dominus And again, according to Mr. GUNDER- ‘‘Mr. Speaker, you can tell my col- vobiscum. Just what does Mr. GUNDER- SON, $14,000 was for the lighting alone. league from Wisconsin that, like him, SON really know about my love for the I wonder did that include the multicol- I’ve spoken with more young men be- dying or my empathy for human suf- ored rainbow lighting of those magnifi- fore they died from AIDS than most fering? Jesus died for sinners, actually cent Mellon Auditorium Doric columns who serve here. When a person grows for each individual sinner. I’m a sin- along Constitution Avenue? up and lifelong roots in Manhattan and ner—95 percent of us commit at least ‘‘By the year 2000, the AIDS plague Beverly Hills, as I did and as I do, you small sins on a pretty regular basis. will have cost our national economy will see in 10 years more tragedy in- Every one of us, every day, with every about $107 billion. It has already cost volving drug abuse and fast-track, cas- suffering person can and should say, us over $75 billion, about $35 billion of ual sex, than you’ll see in the whole- ‘There but for the grace of God go I.’ that in research. Since 1986, insurance some dairylands of Wisconsin in 100 My motives are based on compassion claims involving AIDS have increased years. At least until these not-so-gay- and on love for my fellow man, and a more than 400 percent totaling an esti- nineties. pure desire to defend youth and chil- mated $9.4 billion! Children orphaned

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Those are the vile words agencies, political subdivisions, municipali- motives—my passionate concern. How ties or school districts, shall enact, adopt or which were hurled at me, at an Afri- enforce any statute, regulation, ordinance or arrogant. can-American columnist, at a hard policy whereby homosexual, lesbian or bisex- ‘‘Mr. Speaker, some of us read on the working reporter, at my friends at the ual orientation. conduct, practices or rela- front page of the May 1st Wall Street Family Research Council, and at those tionships shall constitute or otherwise be Journal many enlightening facts. Let who instinctively believed Marc the basis of or entitle any person or class of me read one to you: Morano’s report about the illegal con- persons to have or claim any minority sta- ‘‘A major study that was just being duct at the Mellon Auditorium. tus, quota preferences, protected status or completed [in 1987] put the average risk claim of discrimination. This Section of the ‘‘By the way, wouldn’t it be equally Constitution shall be in all respects self-exe- from a one-time heterosexual encoun- scandalous to rent out this architec- cuting. ter with someone not in a high-risk tural showpiece for a Hustler, Pent- ‘‘The problem with language, Mr. group at one in five million without house, or Playboy no-holds-barred cele- Speaker, is the use of the terms ‘ori- use of a condom, and one in 50 million bration of free-love with centerfold entation’ and ‘class of persons.’ And let for condom users. models in neon underwear as me just say at this key point, Mr. ‘‘That’s beyond the odds of being bartenders***with or without the Speaker, that what I am about to ex- struck by a lightning bolt. Let that drug use, and with or without the half plain, brightly illuminated by this cur- sink in—Most of us are more in danger naked gyrating, and with or without a rent Supreme Court decision, will lend of being hit by lightning than being crude name, Screw Alley, for the itself a resolution of the question be- zapped by AIDS. arched, carriage entrance, east side fore us today—that is, Mr. GUNDERSON ‘‘I continue quoting the Wall Street courtyard? questioning of my motives and his at- Journal: ‘‘If I can have an animus toward the tacks on my character. Homosexuals, needle-sharing drug users promotion of fornication and adultery ‘‘For the purposes of law, there is no and their sex partners, however, were in such thing as homosexual orientation. grave danger. A single act of anal sex with that’s promoted in Hustler, why can I an infected partner, or a single injection have an animus toward homosexual In law, it doesn’t exist. In law, homo- with an AIDS tainted needle, carried as glorification? I refer you to the Untied sexuality is no more and no less than a much as a one in 50 chance of infection. For States Supreme Court decision, Romer sex act. Loving friends living together people facing these risks, it was fair to say v. Evans, May 20, 1996. It is most time- for years can be bonded by Philos love AIDS was truly a modern-day plague. ly and very instructive. with never even a though of Eros love. ‘‘There it is again, behavior is the ‘‘The decision didn’t go the way I ex- So under the law, you can’t be H–O–M– driving malignant constant with this pected. Naturally, I stand with Justice O without the S–E–X–U–A–L any more plague. Scalias brilliantly logical and hard hit- than under law you can be hereto ‘‘Mr. Speaker, let me repeat that ting dissent. Anthony Kennedy’s six without the sexual. This is a crucial Wall Street Journal conclusion, ‘For Justice to three Justice opinion rep- distinction in the law. Why? Because people facing these risks, it was fair to resents just a part of the raging debate laws and public policies are based on say AIDS was truly a modern-day that involves DORNAN and GUNDERSON human actions, not the penumbra of plague.’ For what people? For, quote, and that is not ricocheting around our orientations, or inclinations, or ten- ‘homosexuals, needle-sharing drug Nation***a nation Rev. Graham dencies, or temptations never acted users and their sex partners.’ The truth says is ‘‘on the brink of self-destruc- upon * * * Not what goes on in the is, and honest reporters have known tion.’’ thought processes of the human brain. this for years, AIDS simply is not, not, Law involves conduct***behavior everyone’s disease. Is it a plague. Of ‘‘For example, homosexual * * * and, yes sometimes speech such course it is. Is it an epidemic, an inter- pedophilia has cost my Catholic reli- as treason, libel, or yelling fire and in continental pandemic? Beyond ques- gion, a faith I dearly love, over one a crowded enclosure. tion. But it simply is not everyone’s and a half billion * * * billion * * * dol- ‘‘There are no laws against what a disease. lars and counting. Those are tithing man thinks, nor will there ever be in a ‘‘Mr. Speaker, let’s apply some single dollars, God’s money, spent trying to truly free country. In the eyes of the logic. A thoughtful leader from AIDS ease the pain and stem the outrage of law, thoughts don’t rape or molest. De- project Los Angeles told me just this the victims of clerical homosexual sires don’t sexually exploit another week that if AIDS is everybody’s dis- pedophilia. Who is to blame? Besides person or spread disease. Only human ease, it’s nobody’s disease! Is AIDS the molesters themselves to whom actions can do those things. All of the your disease? No. Is AIDS my disease? Jesus would take this belt to drive consequences pertaining to he behavior No. How about all of the floor staff and them from His Father’s house? Well, of male homosexuality center or sex clerks around us? Most, probably not. try the liberal rectors of Catholic sem- acts. In James Carvellian speak, it’s How about all the entire membership inaries who decided years age to reject the conduct, stupid. of Congress, all 535 of us? Now here’s common sense and accept homosexuals ‘‘Unfortunately, Colorado’s amend- where we pick up a few at risk. I was who merely promised to be good, or ment 2 carries the term ‘orientation’ told some time ago that between the promised to try to be good. And how which allowed Justice Kennedy and House and Senate there are HIV infec- the same type of prideful social experi- five other Justices to perpetuate the tions, and that was with only about 50 menters are constantly shopping for myth of some kind of innate homo- or so Members ever having been tested. liberal judges trying to force homo- sexual personhood. I don’t have to tell If we include all of our staffers, about sexual acceptance on our military you, Mr. Speaker, how ridiculously 30,000 on the Hill, we’d probably pick forces. inane that notion is. Imagine, if you up another handful or so who are in- ‘‘Pro-family folks, especially those in will, some of the beautiful little babies fected. And that’s mainly because gov- Colorado who crafted their amendment occasionally held in this parents arms ernment work and big cities like the 2, ought not to be discouraged by what up there in our gallery.***Can any- District of Columbia attract to work I am about to explain, but, sadly, Colo- one really make a scientific case that here a disproportionate number of ho- rado’s amendment 2 was imprecisely somehow those parents are holding mosexuals beyond the 1 percent to 2 written and its inexact wording is what budding little bisexuals or cross dress- percent estimates nationwide. allowed six Justices to choose process ers or pedophiles just waiting for pu- ‘‘Mr. Speaker, I’m sure you get my over substance in handing down their berty to reveal their true sexual de- point. But what you may not realize is majority opinion. sires. But such arguments are made

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Please apply than the 7,600 square footage of this the other liberal weekly news maga- all of the clarity of Justice Scalia’s House chamber and almost twice as big zines. thoughts to my situation here today. as the 4,300 square foot Senate cham- ‘‘Of course, the concept of orienta- ‘‘The Court’s [majority] opinion contains ber, when filled with 2,000-plus writh- tion within amendment 2 led to the in- grim, disapproving hints that Coloradans ing, bumping and grinding, homo- clusion of the expression ‘class of per- have been guilty of ‘animus’ or ‘animosity’ sexuals, hundreds half-naked, is any- sons.’ I shouldn’t have to spend too toward homosexuality, as thought hat has thing but a ‘gift of love’ . . . unless, of much time explaining this notion be- been established as Un-American. Of course course, you define lust as love—which cause the Supreme Court has pointed it is our moral heritage that one should not hate any human being or class of human is similar to a Member of Congress out clearly through precedent that ho- beings. But I had thought that one could using love as an excuse for responding mosexual behavior is not a protected consider certain conduct reprehensible— to a male pimp’s sex ad in the homo- class of activity. To fairly assume pro- murder, for example, or polygamy, or cruelty sexual Blade newspaper, an ad which tected status, homosexuality would to animals—and could even exhibit ‘animus’ was signed off by ‘Hot Bottom’ . . . have to be broadly viewed as politi- toward such conduct. Surely that is the only face it, that’s lust, not love. cally powerless—which is absurd—and sort of ‘animus’ at issue here: moral dis- ‘‘Just why would I have animus immutable and unchangeable—equally approval of homosexual conduct, the same about a sleazy homosexual jamboree? absurd given that a person can go from sort of moral disapproval that produced cen- Fair question with a very easy answer. turies-old criminal laws that we held con- heterosexuality to homosexuality and stitutional in Bowers [the 1986 case upholding Again, Mr. GUNDERSON claimed the everything in between all in the time- Georgia’s sodomy law and what is still law in Cherry Hop raised about $50,000. The frame of just one Cherry Jubilee Week- half of our states and in our Armed Forces’ truth is that it raised only $45,000. But end, even calling himself bi- or tri-sex- ‘Uniform Code of Military Justice.’]. think about this, Mr. Speaker, if just ual, or he can use the offensive and cor- ‘‘Justice Scalia continues by writing one person after that night of quote rupt new term ‘transgenerational.’ in his opinion that ‘Coloradans are ‘‘coping feels’’—that’s the term of an And, lastly, homosexuality would have ...entitled to be hostile toward homo- anonymous columnist reporting on the to be viewed as a ‘protected status’ sexual conduct’ and that the ‘Court’s hop for the homosexual Metro Weekly which usually means economically dis- portrayal of Coloradans as a society newspaper and cited in The Washington advantaged—this is perhaps the most fallen victim to pointless, hate-filled Times—. . . after a night of ‘coping patently absurd concept of homosex- ‘gay-bashing’ is so false as to be com- feels’ on that dance floor, if just one uality, certainly in the United States ical.’ Unquote. Comical, Scalia wrote. person, after furtively sharing a little or in Europe. Mr. Speaker, he thought his opinion to cocaine with an all-too-friendly same- ‘‘Including in the law the concepts of be so important that he took the time sex tripper in a latrine stall, if only ‘orientation’ and ‘class of persons’ to read it aloud to the U.S. Supreme that one person after the gala, back at spawned the legal death of Colorado’s Court, to read aloud his entire dis- a motel or hotel shared the virus that amendment 2. But the argument with senting opinion which was much longer keeps on giving—the fatal AIDS virus which I took greatest exception in the than the majority opinion. . . . then . . . that mere $45,000 raised flawed Kennedy-written majority deci- ‘‘Mr. Speaker, please reflect on Jus- is but a drop in the bucket. Why? Be- sion, and the focus that is most rel- tice Scalia’s carefully chosen words. He cause it won’t even cover a fraction of evant to this question of privilege is saying that you and I, and all Colo- the cost that one single AIDS patient today, is his use of the words ‘animus’ radans, are entitled—he italicized this will require throughout his medical de- and ‘animosity’ to describe the motiva- word in his opinion—‘entitled to be cline and death. tion of the framers of amendment 2 and hostile toward homosexual conduct...’ ‘‘God demands compassion and pray- the 53 percent of Colorado voters who Not hostile toward any person, but hos- ers for the infected patient and for the voted for the amendment—and the be- tile toward the conduct. Only craven, dying patient. Jesus commands it . . . liefs of an overwhelming majority of cowardly bullies hurt or bash individ- ‘What you do for these, the least of Americans. uals and they should be severely pun- mine, you do for me.’ Yes, of course, ‘‘Animus—this is the same charge ished with the full force of law. A law love and compassion. But focused ani- that Mr. GUNDERSON has leveled at me abiding citizen doesn’t even physically mosity is logical when directed at the using rougher language in his floor abuse a guilty drunk driver at an acci- behavior of the arrogant risk-takers, speech, his ‘Dear Colleague,’ and the dent scene involving an injured child— those hell-bent-for-leather to put lust long, revealing, June 2 Washington and that’s a tough provocation. He before long life and therefore overload, Post Magazine puff piece. To be spe- makes a citizen’s arrest and waits for if not bankrupt, our health systems. cific again, he said that my effort in the police. Dr. Tony Fauci told me 3 weeks ago at exposing the truth about the ‘Cherry ‘‘So let me state for the record again, NIH that many homosexuals now be- Jubilee Weekend’ was just my ‘latest Mr. Speaker, before the million plus in- come HIV positive because of mere attempt to smear the homosexual com- terested citizens watching on C–SPAN, frustration, mere annoyance at having munity,’ that I’m motivated by hatred, and not referring to any individual in to avoid AIDS with less risky sex. So, a nastier word for ‘animus,’ not by a particular, . . . It’s the conduct, stu- mentally exhausted with safer sodomy, sincere desire to protect government pid. And Mr. GUNDERSON knows in his they succumb to high risk lust with its property from abuse and, of course, not heart of hearts that if he were being inevitable fate. Mr. GUNDERSON says by a sincere conviction that all Mem- physically assaulted out on the street, that we ‘must not lecture one another,’ bers of Congress prevent our Govern- BOB DORNAN would be one of the very quote, ‘if there is to remain any ele- ment from giving bad example to the first, if not the first, to defend and pro- ment of mutual respect.’ Unquote. Well youth of our Nation by sending them tect him even at risk of my own life. If if lecturing is out, then I simply plead the destructive message that promis- you doubt that, just ask Congressman with young Americans at risk: Stop cuous sex, hetero-homo-bi-tri or com- CUNNINGHAM and about half dozen of hurting one another. Stop killing one mune sex, is normal and healthy and our Capitol Hill police officers. another. Stop the promiscuity. Stop regularly allowed to showcase in our ‘‘I, like most Americans, do have ani- the dangerous and unhealthy conduct. public buildings. I repeat, we have mus towards homosexual conduct . . . And stop holding up homosexual con- learned the hard way that the wages of and at the ostentatious in-your-face duct before the youth of our country as that sinful message are death—360,000 conduct that was exhibited at the wholesome and normal and healthy. deaths and counting. Cherry Jubilee group grope. In his floor ‘‘Let met turn around another ‘‘So Mr. GUNDERSON tells this Cham- statement, Mr. GUNDERSON attempts to GUNDERSON insult: He accused me of ber, and the whole country through C– portray the homosexual conduct at the trying, quote, ‘to personally destroy SPAN, that my sole motivation is to stately Mellon Auditorium as a ‘gift of those with whom (I) might disagree’ smear. Let me read to you, Mr. Speak- love, not a week-end of illegal activ- . . . we, who truly believe we are our

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The final scenes from the tral allegation of Mr. GUNDERSON’s Party’ at Diversite, a 14th Street club. movie ‘The Ten Commandments.’ I can May 14 floor speech; that I had a large (The Washingtonian Magazine says it’s hear that unique voice-over narration hand in intentionally ‘misrepresenting D.C.’s ‘‘best bar for the scene.’’) The of Cecil B. DeMille as he paraphrased the facts’ and intentionally ‘falsifying ‘Main Event,’ an all-night dance at- Exodus Chapter 32 with a touch of Le- information’ surrounding the ‘Cherry tended by over 2,000 people, took place viticus. Mr. Speaker, you may apply Jubilee Weekend.’ I repeat, he actually at the historic Andrew W. Mellon Audi- these words, if you choose, to the used those false words ‘misrepresenting torium’’ (note that even they say ‘his- lapses of dignity at the Tailhook dis- the facts’ six times. toric’ . . . and it’s straight across from grace, but they fit more accurately, ‘‘For the record, Mr. Speaker, these the National Museum of American His- times 100, the degradation that dis- salacious advertisements at my side tory on America’s number 1 boulevard, graced our Capital at the Mellon Audi- are exactly what I’m talking about Constitution Ave. And, Mr. Speaker, torium—twice—April 1993 and April when I criticize the melee at the Mel- the Mellon’s impressive front doors are 1996. lon. exactly 106 paces across Constitution, I The narration picks up after the ‘‘The Cherry Jubilee Weekend con- personally paced it off, from the mam- Bible tells us Aaron ‘Let the people run sisted of three inclusive events; First, a moth 1814 original ‘Star Spangled Ban- wild.’ With reverent foreboding, C.B. Friday, April 12, Welcome Party held ner,’ the actual thirty foot by thirty DeMille narrates: primarily for this homosexual circuit four foot Ft. McHenry flag that in- ‘‘They were as children who had lost their party’s out of town guests, as the pro- spired Francis Scott Key to write our faith. They were preverse and crooked and moters at Friends Being Friends have National Anthem, including the words, rebellious against God. They did eat the explained. The Welcome Party was ad- ‘. . . And this be our motto: In God we bread of wickedness and drank the wine of vertised as being held in two locations, violence. And they did evil in the eyes of the trust!’ Back to the Blade, quote, ‘The Lord. or as the promoters say, two of Wash- weekend wound down with the ‘Capitol ington’s popular local hangouts, the Hill Recovery Brunch’ held at the ‘‘On screen the young girl being sac- homosexual bars Trumpets and JR’s. Longworth House Office Building foyer rificed pleads, ‘Have you no shame?’ We Mr. Speaker, I have here advertise- and patio from 1 to 6 pm,’ unquote. hear that word ‘shame’ applied to ments for these bars as printed in the (Actually the Rayburn Courtyard.) Christians quite often by homosexual city’s premier homosexual newspaper activists. How perverse. ‘‘The Blade continued its description The Washington Blade. Note, Mr. ‘‘Scene up on Mount Sinai, God or- of the weekend, ‘Cherry Jubilee at- Speaker, alongside the ad with this ders Moses, ‘Go, get thee down, for thy tracted people from as far away as naked male model is another ad with a people have corrupted themselves.’ Switzerland and San Francisco.’ Mr. male homosexual dressed in women’s ‘‘DeMille: Speaker, that’s a reference to the trav- lingerie for the bar Trumpets. These ‘‘And the people rose up to play. They were eling bi and homosexual so-called ‘cir- bars were the starting point of Mr. as the children of fools and cast off their cuit party’ crowd. One of the weekend’s GUNDERSON’s gift of love and love thy clothes. The wicked were like a troubled sea sponsors crowed, I quote, ‘‘Pretty much neighbor as yourself weekend. Mr. whose waters cast up filth and dirt. They someone from every city came’ sank from evil to evil and were viler than Speaker, please think again at this the earth. They had become servants of sin. point about Tailhook and the out- ‘‘That was a description of the week- end from one of their very own news- And there was manifest all manner of ungod- rageous double standard that we tol- liness and works of the flesh. Adultery and erate, especially given the code of papers, so let’s be honest concerning lasciviousness, uncleanness, idolatry, and ri- honor we Americans demand from our what we’re describing. And, let’s be oting, vanity and wrath. And they were filled military, and the pathetically low very clear about something with iniquity and vile affections and Aaron standard of ethics enforced here and in else...Most of Mr. GUNDERSON’s knew that he had brought them to shame. the Senate. Even Packwood avoided point of personal privilege was spent in ‘‘Remember that Time magazine cover, being expelled for over a year, then he criticizing and contradicting the writ- ‘What Ever Happened to Shame?’ quit amid tearful goodbyes. Bye, bye, ten report and video record of jour- ‘‘By the way, Mr. Speaker, I know I Mr. Abortion. nalist Marc Morano, who was an eye- speak for most Members when I state ‘‘The second event of the Cherry Ju- witness of the Saturday night event. that the only Moses we like to hear bilee Weekend was the Main Event held Accompanying Marc was another re- about on this House floor is our Moses Saturday night and which ran until porter named Jerry. This character as- of Exodus, the Moses up there in the dawn Sunday morning. This was the sassination of Mr. Morano is phony and center place of honor on our north so-called dance at the surrealistically transparent from the start given that wall, Moses in marble relief looking lighted Mellon. Mr. Speaker, remember Mr. GUNDERSON admitted early on that down on us. Hopefully to inspire us. that the event’s sponsors claim they he, GUNDERSON, was nowhere near Sat- Moses the lawgiver, Moses of the Ten spent $14,000 just on lighting—not the urday night’s ‘‘Main Event’’ of hedo- Commandments, commandments, Mr. bright lights of a debutante’s ball as nism. Speaker; not suggestions about mat- suggested by Mr. GUNDERSON—but the ‘‘Contrary to what Mr. GUNDERSON ters like infanticide and adultery and hypnotic, psychedelic lighting so befit- speculated about Mr. Morano sneaking sodomy. Moses the Prophet. I am be- ting the hedonism that it was partially in, Morano not only bought one ticket yond annoyance hearing on this floor illuminating? at the door, but actually bought an- about Herb Moses or Rob Morris. Why ‘‘The third event comprising the other ticket from a scalper for his as- must we hear about 45-year-old and package weekend was the Sunday Re- sistant Jerry, who is obviously a cor- fiftyish boy friends? I only know the covery Brunch hosted by Mr. GUNDER- roborative eyewitness. Why, Mr. first names of about 20 spouses, and not SON in our House Rayburn Courtyard. GUNDERSON asks, didn’t Mr. Morano the single maiden name of a Member’s This function was initially advertised just proclaim up front why he was spouse. Enough already with Rob and as being held in Mr. GUNDERSON’s, there with a video camera? Obviously, Herb’s family values. quote, ‘unique Agriculture Committee he would have been thrown out, just as ‘‘Mr. Speaker, an important point. Room located inside the Longworth he was blocked from even entering Mr. Mr. GUNDERSON was adamant that House Office Building.’ I assume Mr. GUNDERSON’s soiree in our Rayburn there were no orange cones put out to GUNDERSON decided a much larger site Courtyard the next day. As it was, stop public sodomy, but only to warn was needed. Marc was only able to shoot limited of construction hazards. Well, Mr. ‘‘The Washington Blade newspaper footage. Again, the lighting was pur- Morano told me, and I personally con- wrote a post-mortem of these events, posefully dim, as you can plainly see in firmed this on a visit to this impressive quote, ‘Cherry Jubilee kicked off Fri- this single video still frame that I’ve building, that the outside orange con- day, April 12, with a ‘Welcome Cocktail had blown up from Mr. Morano’s video struction cones were not for hazard

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It says that there is a Eu- Scalia writes about homosexual ori- to ward off hard partyers seeking the ropean locations edition. entation versus homosexual conduct, remote and dark refuge of an outside ‘‘And look at this thick magazine of use of the words ‘host’ versus ‘sponsor’ dead-end stairwell that they them- depraved classified ads spun off from is a ‘difference without a distinction.’ selves dubbed ‘Screw Alley.’ Again, I the homosexual Advocate magazine, ‘‘Again, as advertised, the Cherry Ju- personally observed that it is not an Mr. Speaker, most are offensive ads for bilee Weekend was three events in one. alley, but an elegant arched side car- soliciting sex with strangers. The Ad- To buy one ticket was to buy a Week- riage entrance and courtyard—there is vocate spun off this AIDS-spreading de- end Ticket, or a ticket to all events. a courtyard carriage entrance with pravity into a separate slick magazine Not to mention that to buy a ticket, handicap ramps on each side of the so they could attract political inter- for whatever purpose, was to give your magnificent auditorium. This is where views like the one with Clinton this money to the entire weekend’s activi- much of the reported public urination very month. A very creepy mailed-in ties. Similarly, and a clever politician was taking place, right there next to interview, by the way. Par for his such as Mr. GUNDERSON knows this, to our historic Constitution Avenue. The course. host one event—in other words, to let two-carriage entrance courtyards were ‘‘No person in their right mind be- your name be officially used—is to lend also the smoking sections for multi- lieves that 2,000 upscale homosexuals your name to the entire weekend ‘Jubi- risk fast-laners. One eyewitness said gathered together in one place for all- lee’ and to this offensive, pagan adver- that so many people were up and down night revelry, in such an elegant, tax- tising that you see beside me. the dark stairwells that orange cones payer-owned edifice, weren’t pairing up ‘‘Further, Mr. GUNDERSON left out were set up by an APEX rent-a-cop, to for later action. some very interesting information that quote, ‘detour the traffic,’ unquote. Mr. ‘‘Just listen to Mr. GUNDERSON’s own our House Oversight Committee should Speaker, there was no construction words, quote, ‘The sponsors inten- look into. There are mandatory House work outside and certainly nothing tionally took steps to prevent even an rules which specifically guide the use ‘‘constructive’’ going on inside. atmosphere conducive to illegal activ- of Federal property on this Hill—in ‘‘In the course of his floor statement, ity.’ Unquote. This is definitely not this case, the Rayburn Courtyard Mr. GUNDERSON said, quote, ‘Mr. Dor- standard party protocol at your Amer- where Mr. GUNDERSON’s April 14 ‘Sun- nan uses an article to portray a recent ican Legion Hall dance or at any NCO day Recovery Brunch’ was held. That series of events held in this town, in Club dance or a Kiwanis or Rotary Club was it’s actual name, a ‘Recovery Government buildings, as a party of night out. How about our own Capitol Brunch.’ And isn’t it fair to ask, ‘re- numerous illegal activities. Nothing Hill Club? Think Tailhook again, Mr. covery’ from what? Could it be—oh I could be further from the truth.’ Un- Speaker, and the price paid by heroic don’t know—that devilish all night quote. combat pilots who have lost their ca- partying at the palatial Mellon Audito- ‘‘So, to again use Mr. GUNDERSON’S reers. Why would Mr. GUNDERSON have rium, lasting for 9 hours from 9 p.m. very words, ‘It’s time to set the record to tell us all of this, if these so-called until 6 a.m. in the morning on the straight.’ homosexual circuit parties, drawing Lord’s day? ‘‘The very day after he delivered his thousands, weren’t traveling, lust-liai- ‘‘House regulations governing the use statement, the Washington Times, May sons known for their illegal drug ac- of our taxpayer-owned meeting rooms 15, corroborated the charges of illegal tivities? Why would they need, as he state that these rooms, or space such drug activity independent of reporter describes it, quote, ‘strategically as the Rayburn Courtyard, ‘shall not be Marc Morano and his associate’s eye- placed security personnel,’? Or why used for fundraising.’ Well, Mr. witness accounts. Illegal drugs were would they need, as Mr. GUNDERSON GUNDERSON stated in his words that used at the taxpayer-owned and GSA- says, quote, ‘Three-foot-by-four-foot fundraising was the entire purpose for operated historic Andrew W. Mellon posters placed throughout the audito- the ‘Jubilee’ which included his Recov- Auditorium. And, by the way, Mr. rium and throughout the restrooms ery Brunch, all on one E-ride ticket. Speaker, Mr. GUNDERSON kept saying with the message: ‘‘The possession or Nor are our rooms to be used for ‘enter- the Commerce Department runs the use of illegal substances is strictly pro- taining tour groups.’ Again, the ‘Cher- Mellon. Another of his misstatements. hibited.’’ ’ Again, the infamous ry Jubilee Weekend’ was reported in It’s run by the General Services Ad- Tailhook mess did not require signs the Washington, DC, city paper as part ministration. This proves again that posted around the Vegas Hilton. Why of a traveling ‘homosexual circuit community lawyers or Whitman-Walk- would these posters be needed to con- party.’ Would that be a tour group, Mr. er wrote his May 14 protestation. trol partyers described by Mr. GUNDER- Speaker? What do you think, Mr. GING- ‘‘I met personally with the very pro- SON as—and the Speaker knows that RICH? fessional lady who has been the prin- I’m not making this up, check the May ‘‘And groups using our rooms are not cipal GSA supervisor there for over 10 14th RECORD—‘the love of God personi- permitted to charge an ‘admission fee.’ years. She told me when she came to fied’ (pause) and a people whom, quote, Mr. GUNDERSON stated in his floor the Mellon Sunday morning it was ‘every conservative and every Repub- speech that the Recovery Brunch cost filthy, with mixed-drink-sticky-slime lican should applaud.’ How Mr. $25 per person. That’s interesting, be- covering most of the auditorium floor. GUNDERSON kept a straight face cause one ticket for the ‘Jubilee,’ enti- She demanded and got Whitman-Walk- through all of these sacrilegious com- tling a participant to brunch at Mr. er to pay for a cleaning crew on Sun- parisons I’ll never know. GUNDERSON’s recovery, cost $100, not day, at a triple overtime rate. ‘‘It reminds me of their new and $25. Do you think, Mr. Speaker, that ‘‘As for displays of public sex—who equally offensive gambit of referring to Brunch sponsors were collecting last among the participants would come an obsession with an unnatural sex act minute unofficial admission fees at the forward and incriminate themselves? as a ‘gift from God.’ What small ‘g’ god door that Sunday afternoon? Who ran As for the one off-duty officer, still un- would that be, the god pan? What sac- the accounting for that money collec- identified and probably nonexistent, rilegious, errant nonsense. This trans- tion? and the six APEX rent-a-cops— parent propaganda is usually advanced ‘‘Do you also think for a moment wouldn’t you expect six or seven people by homosexual clerics and phoney sex that if someone did not pay the admis- to be overwhelmed by 2,000-plus undu- therapists of the ‘if-it-moves-mate- sion fee for the brunch they would have lating and mock-humping revelers? with-it’ school. been allowed in, Mr. Speaker? It simply And the fact remains that, for many ‘‘Here’s Mr. GUNDERSON’s next claim: does not compute. homosexuals, the attraction to part- quote, ‘My sole role was to serve as the ‘‘A guest list is required to be sub- ners who are strangers for public sex is congressional host for the Sunday mitted by the sponsor of any event pathological. Here is a book, published Brunch by requesting a space in my when held during ‘off-hour periods,’ by homosexual press, for the sole and name.’ Unquote. such as Sundays. And events in the explicit purpose of leading willing par- ‘‘In press accounts, my self-appointed Rayburn Courtyard are not allowed be- ticipants to semisecret hot spots across adversary repeatedly points out that fore 4 p.m. Was a list of attendees sub- the Nation for public, homosexual sex. he was not a sponsor of the Cherry Ju- mitted, Mr. Speaker? I doubt it. And

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This is a bad rerun of worshiping that has been time-tested, for mil- ‘‘To those Members who may be toy- Molech and Belial. lennia, and by its very success it is un- ing with the thought that I’m splitting ‘‘Mr. Speaker, the tension between deniably the proven path. hairs, let me remind you, Mr. Speaker, me and the three revealed-by-conduct ‘‘The difference between philos love, of the nature of the procedural ques- homosexuals in this House is a reflec- which is the non-sexual bonding of dear tion of privilege involved here. Mr. tion of the national debate on our friends, and homosexuality is that the GUNDERSON over and over accused me moral and spiritual decline. A debate latter is grounded in a sex act, and of being the primary distributor of that has tragically been stifled, if not variations on that eros theme, in con- false information and deliberate snuffed out completely, in the Demo- duct that is defined in that dictionary untruths. cratic party. Fortunately, it is still behind me as ‘sodomy,’ and sodomy can ‘‘If the chair will recall, there was a very much alive within my Republican never be anything but a selfish, hedo- previous Dornan-Gunderson dust up Party and it’s raging white hot in nistic, and impotent ritual that bears here on the House floor 2 years ago. It many communities throughout our only the lifeless fruits of disease and was prompted by his self-serving com- land. There can be no compromise in emotional distress. I pray for all those, ment that he places himself among the this struggle * * * that is why so many Mr. Speaker, who continue to chose a Christian avatars in Congress, and faint-of-heart Members in this institu- lifestyle and conduct, so sad and so de- these are his exact words, quote, ‘I’m tion want all moral issues, even par- second-to-none-in-quote-unquote, advo- void of true happiness, of true gaiety, tial-birth infanticide abortions, to just which is the joy of life * * * joie de cating Christian values around go away! Even lazier and more cow- here’***here meaning Congress. vivre * * * the gaiety that flows from ardly are those shallow fools who say, God’s love. Some may recall my-truth-in-adver- so what! I pity their children in the ‘‘Mr. Speaker, to our traditional tising response to Mr. GUNDERSON’S love department. Unfortunately, a friends who may be listening right words. And now, in this latest go- struggle over virtue and the future of now—those who are often maligned and round, here he is again invoking Chris- our Nation as a land of Godly people ridiculed in liberal media for their con- tianity, but this time implying that I can only subside when one side wins stancy and courage in defending de- am somehow un-Christian, and imply- and the other side loses. And history cency and virtue—Remember that our ing that I and others were attacking tells us the battle will wax and wane forefathers paid a terrible price to win defenseless individuals whom Mr. until the Second Coming. GUNDERSON describes as ‘those in need ‘‘Mr. Speaker, I know what I am their liberty * * * our liberty. It cost of these services’—meaning AIDS serv- doing by upping the ante in this most their fortunes or and many their ices. hellacious fight. I know the danger it very lives, but never their honor. Every ‘‘Specifically, he stated—and Mr. holds for me and for my very large tiny segment that we give up of our Speaker, I hope everyone will take family, both politically and personally. standard of decency hastens the demise note of his exact words—‘Cherry Jubi- But the stakes are to high for anyone of our very basic freedoms. Remember, lee represented the best of this Amer- to remain on the sidelines who makes we traditionalists fight to protect the ican tradition.’ Then ‘Cherry Jubilee claim to a fighters heart that is I pray entire spectrum of moral living. There- represented the best of the American brave. The stakes are thousands of fore, each political compromise forced family.’ And, a few sentences later, human lives at jeopardy * * * at jeop- upon us—each traditional virtue that ‘Cherry Jubilee represented the best of ardy to the ravages of an irreversible, we surrender or even compromise—is a America’s Judeo-Christian ethic.’ Ex- fatal venereal disease and * * * far loss of something we treasured and cuse me? Give us struggling believers a more heart-breaking, there are the thus we are weakened for the next in- break. I repeat his most offensive souls in jeopardy * * * the immortal evitable confrontation. In the culture statement. Mr. GUNDERSON states that souls. The stakes are also * * * our be- war in which we are engaged, we must the participants at Cherry Jubilee ‘be- loved America, as we know it. remind ourselves over and over that came the love of God personified.’ ‘The ‘‘One of our cockiest Members is fond only a virtuous people can be a free love of God personified’! How out- of whining in exasperation ‘what do all people. Remember Alexis de rageously offensive! How sacrilegious! of these extremists have to fear from Tocqueville’s insightful prediction, ‘As These odious comparisons make the two people of the same sex who love long as America is good, America will next weird comparison a belly laugh each other? be great.’ Our Founders knew that .... the half naked dancers and ‘‘Given that he undoubtedly is in- well. It is the nature of this struggle prancers were, quote, ‘Newt’s shining cluding me among his designated ‘ex- that we will always be on the defen- lights on a hill.’ Unquote. Are NEWT’S tremists,’ I have an answer for him, sive. Do not feel discouraged or down- lights anything like Governor Win- from a pro-homosexual book, an obser- hearted because we refuse to be ‘posi- throp’s ‘shining city on a hill’? I won- vation that both sides in the struggle tive’ about sodomy or abortion-on-de- der if Winthrop is still spinning in his should be able to accept. mand just to please liberal reporters. grave? He probably hasn’t stopped spin- ‘‘Homosexuality impinges on such The hard reality is that in this decency ning since that infamous 1983 censure questions as what it means to be male battle, the hedonists win something of the Member from Plymouth Rock. or female, what can be considered sex- every time we compromise, and the ‘‘Mr. Speaker, as I said I’m a grand- ual pathology, what the purposes of rest of us lose a bit more of our virtue, father who treasures the innocence of sexuality are * * * thus homosexual re- another one of the foundations of our American youngsters and I happily ac- lationships challenge the moral and freedom. Mr. Speaker, the unrelenting cept our ‘in loco parentis’ role with our emotional basis for the way our culture chipping away at moral tradition by idealistic young pages, so I will refrain deals with sexuality. Pretty straight- our adversaries succeeds only when we from discussing reporter Marc forward, Mr. Speaker. are complacent or when we continue Morano’s roughest descriptions of the ‘‘I would further add that there are our delusionary trips to that big three- so-called ‘love of God personified.’ But many other reasons to oppose the ring circus tent, a tent that some want this picture gives us a tiny, tiny hint. norming of the abnormal. Reasons such to be so large that it will allow practi- ‘‘And this still-frame from Marc as respect for the desires of the God of tioners of any perversion to slither in Morano’s video camera was taken very both the Old and New Testaments * * * and even be welcomed. Today the early on the night of April 13. All I can or respect for the course of nature Ephebephiles, heterosexual say is, this is not my American tradi- itself or what Jefferson’s Declaration ephebephiles or homosexual tion or my American family. And this calls ‘nature’s God,’ or for the survival ephebephiles, tomorrow, Hello is sure as hell and heaven not my of the traditional family of one man Pedophiles! Come on in, it’s a very big Judeo-Christian ethic or code of ethics. and one woman bound together in mu- tent.

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‘‘We, who know what objective truth When said bill and report were re- Richardson Skaggs Traficant Rivers Skelton Velazquez is, must make a firm commitment ferred to the Union Calendar and or- Roemer Slaughter Vento every day * * * to never, ever com- dered printed. Rose Spratt Visclosky promise in this intense conflict to pre- Roybal-Allard Stenholm Volkmer T serve a culture that is not just safe for 82.20 TRANSPORTATION Rush Stokes Ward APPROPRIATIONS Sabo Studds Waters children but for their families * * * a Sanders Stupak Watt (NC) culture with virtue, a culture that The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr. Sawyer Tanner Waxman pleases God. LAHOOD, pursuant to House Resolu- Schroeder Taylor (MS) Weller Schumer Tejeda Williams ‘‘And what possible claims can homo- tion 460 and rule XXIII, declared the Scott Thompson Wilson sexual activists make toward Christian House resolved into the Committee of Serrano Thornton Wise loyalty. A true Christian must be able the Whole House on the state of the Shuster Thurman Woolsey to say with believability, ‘I try to walk Union for the further consideration of Sisisky Torres Wynn in the footsteps of my Savior Jesus the bill (H.R. 3675) making appropria- NOES—212 Christ.’ For someone to claim without tions for the Department of Transpor- Allard Frisa Morella shame, that the disgusting display of tation and related agencies for the fis- Archer Funderburk Myers hedonism at the majestic, publicly- cal year ending September 30, 1997, and Armey Gallegly Myrick Bachus Ganske Nethercutt owned Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium for other purposes. Baker (CA) Gekas Neumann had anything to do with Jesus Christ Mr. BEREUTER, Chairman, resumed Baker (LA) Gilchrest Ney or his followers is to exercise raw evil the chair; and after some time spent Barr Gillmor Norwood egotism. Dr. Billy Graham had it ex- therein, Barrett (NE) Gilman Nussle Bartlett Goodlatte Oxley actly right. We are ‘a nation on the Barton Goss Packard brink of self-destruction.’ But we need Bass Graham Parker FRIDAY, JUNE 28 (LEGISLATIVE not self-destruct nor commit national Bateman Greene (UT) Paxon DAY OF JUNE 27), 1993 Bereuter Greenwood Petri suicide. Honest Abe Lincoln, at only Bilbray Gunderson Pickett age 38, warned us to steel ourselves T82.21 RECORDED VOTE Bilirakis Gutknecht Pombo against national self-destruction. Bliley Hancock Pomeroy A recorded vote by electronic device ‘‘Mr. Speaker, let me repeat those Blute Hansen Porter was ordered in the Committee of the Boehlert Hastert Portman words from a four-star general that I Whole on the following amendment Boehner Hastings (WA) Pryce used in my opening, ‘we must insist on Bonilla Hayworth Quinn submitted by Mr. OBERSTAR: disciplined and principled behavior. Bono Hefley Radanovich * * * The majority of our members un- Page 11, line 17, before ‘‘, of which’’, insert Brownback Heineman Ramstad the following: ‘‘(increased by $1,000,000)’’. Bryant (TN) Herger Regula derstand well that integrity is essen- Page 36, line 23, after the dollar amount, Bunn Hilleary Riggs Bunning Hobson Roberts tial in an organization where we count insert the following: ‘‘(decreased by on fellow members and that honesty is Burr Hoekstra Rogers $1,000,000)’’. Burton Hoke Rohrabacher the glue that binds the members into a Buyer Horn Ros-Lehtinen It was decided in the! Yeas ...... 193 cohesive team. negative ...... Nays ...... 212 Callahan Hostettler Roth ‘‘ ‘And they easily take responsi- Calvert Hunter Roukema T82.22 [Roll No. 288] Camp Hutchinson Royce bility for their actions and exhibit the Campbell Hyde Salmon courage to do the right thing. AYES—193 Canady Inglis Sanford ‘‘ ‘Yes, most professionals place serv- Abercrombie Doyle Lantos Castle Istook Saxton Andrews Duncan Levin Chambliss Johnson (CT) Scarborough ice before self and willingly subordi- Chenoweth Johnson, Sam Schaefer nate personal interests for the good of Baesler Durbin Lewis (GA) Baldacci Edwards Lipinski Christensen Jones Schiff their unit, the Air Force and the Na- Ballenger Engel Lofgren Chrysler Kasich Seastrand tion and, if called upon, are willing to Barcia English Lowey Coble Kelly Sensenbrenner Coburn Kim Shadegg risk their lives in defense of the United Barrett (WI) Ensign Luther Becerra Eshoo Maloney Combest King Shaw States.’ Beilenson Evans Manton Cooley Kingston Shays ‘‘Thank you, General Ron Fogelman Bentsen Farr Markey Cox Klug Skeen for inspiring me in a period when I cer- Berman Fattah Mascara Crane Knollenberg Smith (MI) Bevill Fazio Matsui Crapo Kolbe Smith (NJ) tainly find myself on a solo deep-strike Bishop Fields (LA) McCarthy Cremeans Largent Smith (WA) recon mission. Blumenauer Filner McDermott Cubin Latham Souder Bonior Ford McHale Cunningham LaTourette Spence ‘‘Mr. Speaker, true love will always Davis Laughlin Stearns protect the innocent. I will always Borski Frank (MA) McIntosh Boucher Frost McKinney DeLay Lazio Stump challenge the child corrupters, my Browder Furse McNulty Diaz-Balart Leach Talent shield is always the chastening and Brown (CA) Gejdenson Meehan Dickey Lewis (CA) Tate Dingell Lewis (KY) Tauzin fearful words of Jesus Christ in Mat- Brown (FL) Geren Meek Brown (OH) Gonzalez Menendez Doolittle Lightfoot Thomas thew 18:6, ‘Whosoever shall cause one Cardin Goodling Millender- Dornan Livingston Thornberry of these little ones who believe in me Chabot Gordon McDonald Dreier LoBiondo Tiahrt Chapman Green (TX) Miller (CA) Dunn Longley Torkildsen to sin, it were better for him that a Ehlers Lucas Upton millstone were hanged about his neck, Clay Hall (TX) Minge Clayton Hamilton Mink Ehrlich Manzullo Walker and that he were drowned in the depth Clement Harman Moakley Everett Martini Walsh of the sea’....I will do a post Clinger Hastings (FL) Mollohan Ewing McCollum Wamp Fawell McCrery Watts (OK) mortem on these matters, if I have to, Clyburn Hefner Montgomery Coleman Hilliard Moran Fields (TX) McHugh Weldon (FL) in a Special Order, so as to clear up, Collins (GA) Hinchey Murtha Flanagan McInnis White with the truth, any late breaking de- Collins (IL) Holden Nadler Foley McKeon Whitfield Collins (MI) Hoyer Neal Forbes Metcalf Wicker velopments. Thank you for your atten- Fowler Meyers Wolf tion, Mr. Speaker, and may God truly Condit Jackson (IL) Oberstar Conyers Jackson-Lee Obey Fox Mica Young (AK) bless and watch over our bountiful Costello (TX) Olver Franks (CT) Miller (FL) Zeliff land. I yield back the balance of my Coyne Jefferson Ortiz Franks (NJ) Molinari Zimmer Frelinghuysen Moorhead time, but I will never yield my sense of Cramer Johnson (SD) Orton Cummings Johnson, E. B. Owens decency.’. Danner Johnston Pallone NOT VOTING—28 de la Garza Kanjorski Pastor Ackerman Houghton Stockman T82.19 WELFARE AND MEDICAID REFORM Deal Kaptur Payne (NJ) Brewster Jacobs Taylor (NC) DeFazio Kennedy (MA) Payne (VA) Bryant (TX) Lincoln Torricelli Mr. KOLBE submitted a privileged DeLauro Kennedy (RI) Pelosi Flake Linder Towns report (Rept. No. 104–651) on the bill Dellums Kennelly Peterson (MN) Foglietta Martinez Vucanovich (H.R. 3734) to provide for reconciliation Deutsch Kildee Poshard Gephardt McDade Weldon (PA) pursuant to section 201(a)(1) of the con- Dicks Kleczka Quillen Gibbons Peterson (FL) Yates Dixon Klink Rahall Gutierrez Smith (TX) Young (FL) current resolution on the budget for Doggett LaFalce Rangel Hall (OH) Solomon fiscal year 1997. Dooley LaHood Reed Hayes Stark

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