GINGRICH SAYS IT SHOULD BE LEGAL TO FIRE GAYS

One day after his lesbian half-sister Candace visited Capitol Hill to lobby for gay rights, House Speaker Newt Gingrich said workers who are fired because they are homosexual should have no right to sue in federal court. During his daily press conference, the Speaker applied a sort of "don't ask, don't tell" principle to the issue, saying that while employers shouldn't ask, employees should have no recourse. The head of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, a gay and lesbian political group represented by Candace Gingrich, speculated that the Speaker is "under pressure from extremists" to make such comments.