Show A2 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday May 2 2004 Nation J I ©ay Dtraamae In brief Justice Souter hurt In assaiilt WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice David Souter suffered minor injuries when a group of young men assaulted him as he jogged on a city street a court spokeswoman said Saturday The attack occurred about 9 pm Friday court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said Supreme Court police took Souter 64 to a Washington hospital where he was examined and released about 1 am Saturday Arberg said She did ' not detail his injuries except to say they woe minor Souter was not robbed Arberg said She gave no other details about die assault or about any police investigation or arrests Souter was running alone when he was attacked He lives in a city neighborhood not far from the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill but it was unclear whether the assault occurred near his home Souter is among the youngest justices and is a regular jogger SEATTLE (AP) — Thousands of people protested gay marriage at a rally Saturday at the city’s baseball stadium facing hundreds of chanting shouting About counter-proteste- rs 20000 people attended the “Mayday for Marriage” worship service and rally organized by conservative Christian churches around the state in support of heterosexual marriage according to the event’s market- -' ing director John Kelly Police offered no estimate “This is a place where we’re taking a stand” said James Dobson founder of the evangelical Christian group Focus on the Family told the crowd “If this happens the culture war is over and everything associated with it is lost” The rally was slated as a worship service including music and a choir “We believe marriage was designed for a man and a woman” said Bill Hanford 46 of Redmond “We think the biblical concept of marriage is important and people should take a stand on that side of the argument as well as the one that’s in the media right ff©©s ©aoft now Between 2500 and 3000 protesters waved signs and chanted “Bigots go home!” and tried to shout down the anti-ga-y marriage protesters Arrivals had to walk between the to enter the stadium One man was arrested police said Jeffrey Steinberg 52 carried a sign that said “Religious bigots love lies not God! Bear your false witness elsegay-righ- fiwe© odd ts " k counter-protestp- rs G where” “Unfortunately religion has often been a tool for hatred” he said Organizers spent $120000 to rent the stadium said the Rev Joseph Fuiten pastor of Cedar Park Assembly of God church in Bothell The Seattle Mariners who operate the ballpark and Safeco Insurance whose name is on it received phone calls from people criticizing the use of ' y the stadium for the marriage rally The Seattle Times reported Saturday Some threatened to cancel insurance policies while others said they would give up their Mariners tickets the newspaper said a v7 K 30 - Qtj JTes o- C v anti-ga- AP photo i Members of the crowd raise Jheir arms and sing as they participate in the "Mayday for Marriage" rally at Safeco field in Seattle on Saturday stage gas protests LOS ANGELES (AP) — Truck drivers angered at soaring California fuel prices stopped their rigs in rush-hotraffic and hundreds stopped hauling goods from two of the nation’s busiest ports Five truckers were arrested Friday morning on Interstate 5 south of Los Angeles after they parked or jackknifed three big-riclosing down the northbound lanes for nearly an hour before California Highway Patrol officers used tow trucks to clear them Other trucks formed a slow convoy on the 110 Freeway between downtown and the Lea Angeles and Long Beach port complex causing minor authorities said “Disrupting thousands o£ Commuters and disrupting thousands 6f lives is not die way to get support for your cause” patrol Officer Ron Burch said- Later in the day hundreds of truckers took die day off They rallied near the ports of Los Angeles-Lon- g Beach and Oakland to protest high fuel cpsts and other issues ur gs -t- raffic-delays : AP photo enollinn Kaa1 Qjini spelling Dee Olieni Glitch grounds Delta flights ATLANTA (AP)— Acom- puter glitch kept Atlanta-boun- d Delta Air Lines flights on the ground for about two hours Saturday but the company was gradually restoring service to its main hub Flights that were in the air at the time the glitch arose were allowed to land in Atlanta Delta spokeswoman Liza Cac-ersaid “We had groundstopped all flights to Atlanta but are slowly bringing them back up” Caceres said “We hope to have the problem resolved es shortly” When die problem first arose about 3 pm Caceres had said it involved all flights Delta the for Atlanta-base- d airline nation's Caceres did not have immediate information on the number of flights still being held at gates late Saturday afternoon “This is not a safety or security issue” Caceres said Robert Rivera competes in the statewide "fingerspelling bee in Springfield III on Friday Students in the competition use sign language to demon- strata their spelling skills Female sex offender bound for men’s prison GIG HARBOR Wash (AP) — For the past six years convicted child rapist Laura Faye McCollum has lived a lonely existence inside the state’s women’s prison On Monday she is scheduled to move to the new Special Commitment Center on McNeil Island to live among 190 other dangerous sex offenders — all of them men McCollum is worried about attending therapy sessions with the men and many experts say treating offenders of both genders together could be harmful “Would you want to sit in a bunch of men who talk about what they did to women and how they’d like to do that to women again?” McCollum told Tire Associated Press in a three-hointerview from her housing unit at the women's center “I don’t want them bringing their issues on me” McCollum was convicted in 1990 of girl repeatedly raping an and trying to suffocate her with a pil- low She has admitted to sexually assaulting 15 children — mostly girls between the ages of 2 and 3 ur McCollum 46 is one of only three female sex offenders in the nation con- sidered dangerous enough to be civilly committed — a process by which offenders are sent indefinitely to tightly controlled treatment programs after they have completed their criminal sentences The other women — one in California and one in Minnesota — are housed and treated apart from men In the early 1980s the Minnesota Department of Corrections attempted coed treatment of sex offenders but abandoned the program after less than a year Ruth Mathews a psychologist who helped develop a program specifically for the women in Minnesota said the coed effort there ‘‘was pretty disas- have no sexual interest in adult women he said “I believe tlungs will be better for her in the new facility” said McLaughlin who added that McCollum will be housed in a separate wing from the men State officials also say the new commitment center is better equipped to handle McCollum’s needs She now lives in a mobile home on the grounds of the women’s prison Before a federal judge ordered McCollum to the women’s facility in 1997 she was housed alongside 42 ' male sex predators for two years at Monroe Correctional Complex’ McCollum said the men touched her exposed themselves and verbally taunted her McCollum says therapy has changed her She is nearly finished with her GED and has earned a janitorial certificate She hopes to move to Spokane one day get a pet pug and get a job cleaning office buildings at night where she has little chance of running into children - AP photo Laura McCollum smiles during an interview at the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Purdy Wash trous” into group therapy with the men it will be with offenders who do not pose a threat to her said Alan McLaughlin associate superintendent for treatment and care at the Special Commitment Center For example McCollum might be treated alongside child molesters who “Tire women were actually getting worse” Mathews said Women are more likely to be sex abuse victims themselves Mathews said so placing female sex offenders into groups with men can be harmful and leave them feeling revictimized In McCollum's case if she is put Hp I i o Truckers LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood writers meeting with producers 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