Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 07:29:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Casti <disc@casti.com>
Subject: ACTION ALERT: Hearings Rescheduled


Submitted by: Mary Ann Murphy <mamurphy@igc.apc.org>

Dear Friends,

Here is an issue that needs our attention. It was forwarded to us by the
Human Rights Campaign Fund.

A Congressional Committee has set October 13th as the tentative date for a
hearing saught by anti-gay zealot Lou Sheldon. The Oversight and
Investigations Subcommittee of the House Economic and Educational
Opportunities Committee will hold the hearings.

In an August fund raising appeal, for his Traditional Values Coalition,  Lou
Sheldon promised to use the hearings to attack local school efforts to
prevent hate violence, AIDS and sucide. Sheldon, in 1989, called for men
women and children with AIDS to be confined to "cities of refuge."

The hearings into " Parental Involvement in Social Issues in Education" will
focus on sex education and abstinence, condom distribution in schools and
"homosexual curricula." A one sided list of witnesses is expected to present
the wrong position on each of these issues.

Please write to your member of the House of Representatives at:

The U.S. House of Representatives
Washington DC 20515

Contact Lambda Letters, or call your local registrar of voters, if you do not
know who represents you.

Please also write or E-mail to as many of the following members of the
Committee that you can:

Peter Hoekstra, Chair :  TELLHOEK@HR.HOUSE.GOV

Bill Barrett:  (Use same adress as shown for your Representative above.)

Cass Ballenger: CASSMAIL@HR.HOUSE.GOV

Randy Cuningham:  (of California) (Use same adress as shown for your
Representative above.)

Howard McKeon: (of California) TELLBUCK@HR.HOUSE.GOV

Michael Castle: (Use same adress as shown for your Representative above.)

Dave Weldon: FLA15@HR.HOUSE.GOV

William Goodling: (Use same adress as shown for your Representative above.)

Harris Fawell: HFAWELL@HR.HOUSE.GOV

Thomas Sawyer: (Use same adress as shown for your Representative above.)

Mathew Martinez (of California) (Use same adress as shown for your
Representative above.)

Jack Reed: (Use same adress as shown for your Representative above.)

Tim Roemer: (Use same adress as shown for your Representative above.)


Robert Scott: (Use same adress as shown for your Representative above.)

Gene Green: GGREEN@HR.HOUSE.GOV

Mel Reynolds: (Use same adress as shown for your Representative above.)

Here is a sample letter:

                                                 SAMPLE

The Hon. Peter Hoekstra
The U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515

Dear Representative Hoekstra:

I am writing to urge that you cancel the hearings on Parental Involvement in
Social Issues and Education.. These hearings are clearly a vehicle for
pushing the religious right's agenda of denying lesbians, gays and bisexuals
of their inalienable rights,  destroying absolutely essential programs to
reduce hate crimes against lesbian, gay and bisexual youth and  reduce the
spread of AIDS.

Congress should not interfere with local control of education. Local parents
and teachers must be allowed to address the needs of young people threatened
by hate violence,  AIDS and suicide -- free of federal mandates.

Please cancel these hearings.

Yours truly,

(YOUR NAME)

Please do let us know of any calls messages or letters you send. It helps us
know if this effort is working.

Love,

Lambda Letters