European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes August 1985 columns Carl Rowan deserves better from Justice department a lot of thoughts ran through Niv head when i Learned that the Reagan administration had against the advice of Federal prosecutors in Cleve not to prosecute the teamsters Union Jackie on charges of my first thought who surprised the Reagan administration had Long been in a tight political and social embrace with pc scr and a Union that was Noto rious for the fact that three of its last four presidents James Hoffa and Dave Beck had been convicted of pressers Uncle had been convicted of and assorted other teamsters had been convicted of labor so who expected a Messy divorce now my second thought was that this handling of the pc scr Case was a terrible blow to those americans trying so hard to make the United states a society less rampantly beset by highbrow crime and 1 thought about How the nations Federal prisons Are so crammed with in mates that they Are bulging at the scams prisoners at last state prisons Are clogged with More than local holding Over Are so crowded that judges Are saying that those incarcerated arc suffering unconstitutional cruel and unusual the mayor of the nations Marion professes outrage Over a Federal judges ruling that he cannot put any More prisoners into the local built to hold until he reduces the present population of to 1 thought about How americas defense posture was being compromised by Gross and criminal cheating by some of the nations biggest companies firms building weapons that supposedly Are critical to our 1 thought about How americas Chil Dren arc being destroyed by he Angel marijuana and other drugs that exist in abundance because Law enforcement officers take bribes and some of the most prominent Banks in America arc laundering billions of Dol William Buckley Lars of dirty drug and then the summary thought hit me that the Reagan administration will never make the United states a less corrupt and criminal society when it gives Legal Sanctuary to a finds that Hutton has defrauded Banks of More than but wont prosecute any gives kid Glove treatment to other White Collar attorney general Edwin Meese Iii stood aside from the Presser Case for reasons of ethics and but the Public As those making the Justice department decision that Meese has had a tight social and political relationship with and that the Boss of this odoriferous Union was a big help to president Reagan in both the 1980 and 1984 hints have been dropped by the administration that there is no political payoff but pressers status As a longtime Fri informant gave him a sort of if this is the administration ought to spell it so americans will not go on saying they cheat and steal millions and get away with it if they Are social and political buddies of those running the so Why  i cheat on fix my water a Little wine and steal a few food and try to get a Little bit of this action the nation deserves and must have bet Ter leadership from the Justice depart c news America Syndicate courts Are usurping authority of Legislatures the ruling of the court of appeals in the Case of Georgetown University the Gays in Marc loudly and scandalously instructs us on How it is that the rules we live by Are being made these Days not by but the and shake your last mayor Edward Koch of new York told Cardinal John Oconnor that the Catholic enter Prises Over which he presides must formally affirm the rights of the Cardinal replied most politely that in fact he did not knowingly discriminate against but that he would make no such affirmation because if one is a ones attitude toward homosexuality is guided by religious and the first amendment to the dear forbids any legislature from interfering with the prac Tice of mayor Koch said he would need to refer the matter to the both gentlemen smiled at each and waited for the court to last new Yorks highest court sided with the Cardinal mayor Koch did not have the Power to set hiring standards for Cardinal at about the same a group of Gay activists in Georgetown asked for University which is a Catholic said but the Catholic Church formally disapproves of homosexuality and it would not therefore be plausible to extend the University hospitality to a homosexual or so off we once to the the trial judge rules with and the Gays a a three judge panel of the court of appeals ruled 2 1 against in favor of the but wait the entire lineman court advised the parties that it would consider the question in the whole of the court so that until that the ruling of the initial trial judge and Georgetown can continue to make its own rules Over what groups to so that we have Here a court in new York ruling one a court in Washington ruling the same a higher court in Washington divided on the but with a majority voting in and the whole court announcing that it would address the question in full so that what Georgetown can and by Exten Sion what Cardinal Oconnor can is being decided by men appointed not to make but to interpret no Federal Laws have been passed respecting Homo sexual reacting to the favourable decision of the the lawyer for the Gays said this is the first decision anywhere that says that the elimination of discrimination against homosexuals is to be accorded the same status As elimination of racial arid sexual and that of course is the Point a court is undertaking to pass what is in effect if courts had the Power to Rule against racial and sexual Why did we bother during the 1960s to pass the civil rights acts the court in Washington is in effect never mind what con Gress says on the just ask us whether George town has to recognize a Gay rights lobby among its to be Georgetown has an important Reserve it is the same first amendment adduced by Cardinal it will not necessarily work Bob Jones University reads the Bible As proscribing Misaege which May be a screwy Way to read the but it was presumably a part of the first amendment to permit people to read the Bible according to their own perhaps one Day soon the supreme court will Rule that those who read the Bible As proscribing onanism simply got it wrong so that the court will relieve the Vatican of responsibility for refining Catholic i have not researched the question it Only just now occurs to me whether the 18th Amend ment barring the Sale of alcoholic beverages denied to priests the wine prescribed for the sacrament of the an interesting especially so Inas much As the supreme court is Given to making Deci Sions that have the Force of constitutional which amendments Are regularly applauded by the same Folk who tear out their hair at the Prospect of 34 states petitioning for a constitutional convention to Amend the Constitution in ways specified As acceptable by the Constitution i u Toj Labove congratulate it should be confusing that we have arrived at a Point where judges in Washington Tell priests who run a University in Washington what practices students in that University can be permitted to c Universal press Syndicate