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http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/51050.htm
GAY POL WARNS LOPEZ
AN OPENLY gay female state lawmaker warned Council woman Margarita
Lopez not to take money from Scientologists because of what she saw as
the group founder's hostility toward homosexuality, The Post has
learned.
Ever since Lopez, who is also openly gay, ignored Assemblywoman Deborah
Glick's advice and received $115,000 from Scientologists for her
Manhattan borough-president campaign, Glick has been deluged with pleas
from the gay community asking her to pull her endorsement of Lopez.
"Deborah advised her not to deal with the Scientologists," said a
source familiar with the conversation. "Now, gay people are clamoring
for Deborah to drop her support, under the circumstances."
The Scientology donations were first reported by The Post and have
since received heavy coverage in the city's gay press, sparking a
severe backlash against Lopez from within the gay and lesbian community
because of some early anti-gay teachings of the church's founder, L.
Ron Hubbard.
The issue could be politically damaging for Lopez, because gay voters
are expected to make up a sizable slice of the electorate in next
month's Democratic primary and there is another openly gay candidate
among the crowded field of candidates for borough president.
Gay activists have long been troubled by Scientology. In his writings,
Hubbard called gays and lesbians "sexual perverts" and said they were
"actually quite ill physically."
The uproar over Lopez's pocketing of Scientologists' donations has
reached political powerbrokers in Washington.
The Washington, D.C.-based Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund - an
influential group that works to elect openly gay candidates around the
country and that supports Lopez - is now looking at making a dual
endorsement, according to a source close to the organization.
Openly gay Manhattan Beep candidate Brian Ellner would be the
beneficiary, according to the source.
But the Rev. John Carmichael, president of the Church of Scientology of
New York, seemed to contradict Hubbard's words.
"As a matter of principle and a matter of fact, the Church of
Scientology does not discriminate against people because of their
religion, color, race, or sexual orientation," he said.
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