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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN FRANCISCO — A Baptist minister
was removed from the city's Human Rights
Commission on Monday after saying homo
sexuals were an abomination and noting that
the Bible says gay men should be stoned to
death.
Mayor Frank Jordan ordered the Rev. Eu
gene Lumpkin of Ebenezer Baptist Church off
the commission. He had asked him to resign
clt last week but Lumpkin refused.
Weeks ago, Lumpkin told a San Francisco
Chronicle reporter that he agrees with state-
ents in the Bible that male homosexuality is
an abomination against God.
Jordan refused to remove him from the
commission, citing religious freedom concerns
and what he said was Lumpkin's previously
unblemished record on the panel.
On Friday, Lumpkin told a television talk
show he believes everything in the Bible.
When asked whether he agreed with a Book of
Leviticus passage that calls for stoning to
death men who have sex with other men, he
said, "That's what it says... That's what God
says... That's what the Bible says."
"Prior to Friday, the mayor said he would
defend (Rev. Lumpkin) up to the Supreme
Court," said Noah Griffin, a spokesman for
Jordan.
The mayor "could not justify someone be
ing on the Human Rights Commission who
justifies violence, whether based upon biblical
passages or otherwise," Griffin said.
Lumpkin said his comments were taken
out of context and that he did not call for
killing homosexuals but only agreed with the
talk snow host that the Bible advocates such
punishment.
Lumpkin's attorney. Brad Dacus said the
minister's removal violated his Constitutional
right to freedom of religion. He wouldn't say if
Lumpkin planned to sue to get his job back.
The 11-member commission's duties in
clude handling reports of discrimination and
hate crimes.
Jury selection
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Prospective jurors in the trial of
two men accused of setting a
tourist ablaze said they had
heard little about the incident
other than that a black man had
been set afire in Tampa.
Jury selection began Monday
for Mark Kohut, 27, and Charles
Rourk, 33, on charges of attempted
first-degree murder, robbery and
kidnapping in the New Year's Day
attack on Christopher Wilson.
The trial was originally sched
uled to begin last month in Tam-
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Circuit Judge Donald C. Evans
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to West Palm Beach because of
pre-trial publicity in Tampa.
Wilson, a stock brokerage clerk
from New York City, was burned
over 40 percent of his body.
A note left at the scene read
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d was signed "KKK."
Wilson, 32, has said he is heal
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Police search Michael Jackson's
homes in abuse investigation
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson's ranch and
anotlier of his homes were searched by police in
vestigating a child abuse allegation that the pop
star's security consultant blamed Tuesday on an
extortion attempt gone awry.
Police confirmed that a complaint has been un
der investigation since Aug. 17, but officials
wouldn't elaborate.
"We do not want to feed any
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ter,” Cmdr. David Gascon said.
Jackson's security consultant,
Anthony Pellicano, said people
Jackson knew made a false child
abuse complaint against the en
tertainer after he refused to pay
them $20 million.
Search warrants were served
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"He is appalled by
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- Anthony Pellicano,
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consultant
gone awry." Jackson gets 25 to 30 such extortion
attempts a year, said Pellicano, who has worked
for the musician for four years.
"He is appalled by this thing," Pellicano said.
"We had no intentions to do anything with it,
we wanted to see how far they went," Pellicano
said. "They made threats that they wanted to go to
the district attorney's office and I says, 'Go.' I says,
'Why you waiting?' ...
"When we would not pay, a phone call was
made to Child and Family Ser
vices, which started this investi
gation."
Investigators for the county
Department of Children's Ser
vices had no comment on the
case, said spokesman Schuyler
Sprowles.
Jackson's personal life has
long been fodder for tabloids,
which have portrayed the enter-
condominium in Los Angeles and his Neverland
ranch north of the city. The warrants were sealed.
"I am confident the department will conduct a
fair and thorough investigation and its results will
demonstrate that there was no wrongdoing on my
part," Jackson said in a statement from Thailand
on Tuesday.
Jackson hired criminal lawyer Howard Weitz-
man, who defended John DeLorean in a cocaine
case in which the former automaker was acquitted.
During a brief news conference, Weitzman read
the statement from Jackson but refused to answer
questions.
Pellicano, who appeared with Weitzman at tlie
news conference, said the case was "an extortion
tainer as a strange loner, a man-child obsessed
with plastic surgery, children and exotic animals.
During a February TV interview with Oprah
Winfrey, Jackson said he surrounds himself with
children to make up for a friendless, workaholic
childhood as a performer with The Jackson Five
singing group.
Jackson, who turns 35 on Sunday, counts Eliza-
betli Taylor as a close friend, and child actors Em
manuel Lewis and Macauley Culkin are frequent
companions.
In addition to his Bangkok concert Tuesday and
one Wednesday, Jackson is to perform 15 concerts
in Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Moscow, Israel,
Turkey and the Canary Islands.
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