Other Issues

Agenda

Public Health

• Success!
  Policeman, 1; Homosexuality Advocates, 0
  Cybercast News Service
• Call Traverse City city manager 
  Richard Lewis at 231-922-4440, and 
  Mayor Larry Hardy at 231-947-7189, and 
  demand they end this witch hunt against Officer Leach.
• Read news release which includes a letter faxed to Traverse City officials by the Thomas More Center for Law & Justice on behalf of Officer David Leach.

• On December 19, the city announced a new "diversity" logo would be displayed on all city vehicles. The sticker featured interlocked puzzle figures and the words "We are Traverse City" superimposed over the officially-recognized "gay and lesbian pride" flag.[Article] 
  
  -- See officially-recognized "gay pride" flag under "History of the Gay Pride/Rainbow Flag" on the International Association of Vexillological (flagmakers) Associations web site at: [Article] 
  
  -- See Traverse City "diversity" sticker at: [LINK]
• The Detroit-based Triangle Foundation, a homosexual advocacy group, praised the city for "making history" -- apparently becoming the first city in America to feature the official "gay and lesbian pride" flag in a city logo. [Article]
• On January 2nd, after public outcry including public statements by Officer David Leach on a local Christian radio station, city officials on advice of their attorney ordered the "gay pride" stickers removed from city vehicles.[Article][Article]
• On January 8th, the city's Human Rights Commission voted to request a formal investigation into Leach's conduct and statements regarding the bumper stickers, even questioning -- after his nearly 30 years of service on the police force -- whether he is "fit" to perform his duties.[Article] 
• On January 11th, City Manager Richard Lewis told a Washington, D.C. Internet news services that the city would conduct the requested investigation of Officer Leach. [Article]

• Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2001 
  Citing Altered News Report, Commissioner Falsely Accuses AFA-Michigan of "Deception"
  Family Group Says Dodd Should Apologize to Traverse City for Sticker "Soap Opera"
• Tuesday, January 30, 2001
  Dodd Covering Up Washington, D.C., Homosexual PAC's Role in Traverse City "Gay Pride" Sticker Campaign?
• Tuesday, January 16, 2001
  T.C. Sticker Campaign Orchestrated by Homosexual PAC in Washington, D.C.?

• T.C. Sticker Campaign Orchestrated by Homosexual PAC in Washington, D.C.?
  DiveristyInc.com
• Policeman, 1; Homosexuality Advocates, 0
  Cybercast News Service
• City ends probe of officer's remarks
  Investigation finds no evidence of department violations by Leach
  Record-Eagle
• Probe clears officer of wrongdoing, chief says
  Detroit Free Press (AP)
• Christian Police Officer Targeted by Activists
  Homosexual Activists Seek Retribution Against Christian Police Officer Who Opposed "Gay Pride" Stickers in Traverse City, Michigan
  The Record-Eagle
• Tax-Funded Pro-homosexual Bumper Stickers?
  World Net Daily