Maybe There Is A God

August, 1990

The Rise: "I would not want my children taught or influenced by gay people," announced the three-term Congressman from Maryland. Robert Bauman, a devout Catholic, a family man with an adoring wife and four kids and a reputation as a crusading archconservative, fortified his words with action--as a prominent backer of the Family Protection Act, which sanctioned, among other things, the exclusion of gays from jobs and housing. Bauman also voted twice to bar gays from using Federal legal-...