Who's Next?
Area legislator wants bill to encompass state-funded institutions
by Nick Beadle
Metro/State Editor
December 02, 2004
William Shakespeare. Ernest Hemingway. Oscar Wilde. Geoffrey Chaucer.
These men are not just widely renowned writers, but authors whose work could be barred from Alabama public libraries and schools if an anti-gay lifestyle bill posed by a Tuscaloosa-area state representative becomes law.
In a Tuesday news conference in Montgomery, Rep. Gerald Allen, R-Cottondale, unveiled an anti-gay lifestyle bill that prohibits state money from being used on books and other materials and programs that would "sanction, recognize, foster or promote" homosexuality and similar activities that violate state law.
Full story can be found here
by Nick Beadle
Metro/State Editor
December 02, 2004
William Shakespeare. Ernest Hemingway. Oscar Wilde. Geoffrey Chaucer.
These men are not just widely renowned writers, but authors whose work could be barred from Alabama public libraries and schools if an anti-gay lifestyle bill posed by a Tuscaloosa-area state representative becomes law.
In a Tuesday news conference in Montgomery, Rep. Gerald Allen, R-Cottondale, unveiled an anti-gay lifestyle bill that prohibits state money from being used on books and other materials and programs that would "sanction, recognize, foster or promote" homosexuality and similar activities that violate state law.
Full story can be found here
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