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been gathering input on laws to repeal. He is nearing completion of preparing a report for Brownback. Neither he nor Brownback is saying yet what laws they think should be repealed, but whichever way the administration goes, the repeal initiative is bound to create fireworks. Taylor said he has received input on repealing more than 400 laws. Some, he said, deal with controversial social issues such as the sodomy statute and recently approved
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legislation like the ban on smoking in indoor, public places. “What is the intent with those controversial ones?” asked Rep. Carl Holmes, RLiberal, and chairman of the House-Senate Committee on Rules and Regulations. Taylor said he will make a report to Brownback, and the governor will decide which ones “he wants to carry forward.” Any repeal of a state law would have to be approved by the Legislature first. The state law dealing with gay sex was essentially nullified by the 2003 Supreme Court decision, and some legislators have argued there is no reason to remove the Kansas
law from the books because the statute isn’t being enforced. When the court ruled, then-Attorney General Phill Kline issued a statement, saying, “The decision announced by the Supreme Court of the United States today renders Kansas adult homosexual sodomy law unenforceable and unconstitutional. Accordingly, we are providing notice to counties and district attorneys and other law enforcement officials of the nature of the Supreme Court decision and its effect on this little-used Kansas law.” But Witt said there was a danger in having the law remain. “This law technically crim-
inalizes our relationships and leaves us open to harassment by unscrupulous authorities who may still make arrests under the provisions of this statute,” he said. Brownback, a Republican, and the Kansas Equality Coalition have been at odds. Brownback has been an adamant opponent of gay marriage and was criticized by the coalition this summer for attending a prayer rally in Houston that was put on by several groups that oppose homosexuality. Brownback said he went to pray because the country was in difficult times.
RHONDA LEVALDOGAYTON, LEFT, Haskell instructor, and Teresa Trumbly Lamsam, KU professor, are studying media portrayal of diabetes among Native Americans.
We think about it like managing other chronic diseases,” said Christie Befort, an associate professor of preventive medicine and public health at KU’s School of Medicine. There is a lack of nutritious food available on many reservations. For example, the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota has just one grocery store for a population of 8,000 spread over 3,500 square miles. “The grocery store is very far away,” LeValdo-Gayton said. “It’s OK, but if you look at the selection of vegetables or fruit, it’s very minimal.” Ultimately, Lamsam would like to see more success stories in tribal newspapers. There have been healthy living programs on reservations, and coverage of those types of things could make a difference. “We’re talking about a collective culture, not an individualistic culture,” Lamsam said. If people on a reservation see their friends and neighbors are living more healthy, it would probably make it easier for them to live healthy lives as well. “You don’t have to do it all at once. Just change one bad habit, one at time,” LeValdo-Gayton said. “Then you slowly understand how it can affect you.”
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Locally, there are at least three people under 40 on dialysis for diabetes, according to Dr. Dee Ann A. Deroin, a family physician in Lawrence. “It stems from our change in lifestyle, the unavailability in healthy food and the decrease in healthy activity,” Deroin said. For those with diabetes, the disease can mean blindness, amputated limbs, heart disease and kidney failure. In Native American communities, diabetes is taking elders far too young, forcing adults in their 20s and 30s to become the keepers of the culture. “We shouldn’t be at this point. We should be having them around us a lot longer to teach that next generation,” LeValdo-Gayton said. She has lost three uncles and worries about what their absence means for her children’s cultural education. “I am just floored by everything I still have to learn, and I have to seek it from somebody else now,” LeValdo-Gayton said. “I don’t want to see our next generation of people having to deal with death like this.”
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disease if the public views the victims of the disease not at fault for contracting it. Sixty years ago, smoking was seen as an individual’s choice. If you smoked, that was your business, and if smoking destroyed your body, that was your business, too. But the conversation about smoking changed in the 1960s, when public health officials and the media began to emphasize nicotine’s powers to addict and smoking’s power to destroy. All of the sudden, perhaps smokers weren’t completely to blame. Major public policy changes followed, from surgeon general’s warnings to lawsuits draining hundreds of millions of dollars from the tobacco industry. That model of framing a health issue — everything Who you blame matters from HIV to obesity — as not Studies have shown the just being the responsibility federal government is more of the individual has been likely to invest in fighting a pushed by public health of-
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ficials. It could be a way to combat diabetes. “Mainstream news does influence public opinion and public policy in this country,” Lamsam said. “How they’re telling the story of diabetes makes a difference to what happens in D.C.” In their pilot study completed this summer, Lamsam and LeValdo-Gayton found that during the past 14 years, news articles have framed Native Americans as being responsible for contracting diabetes because of bad eating habits or sedentary lifestyles. Most articles did not look at the larger issues that might contribute to diabetes. “We find predominately that the media frame the story to place responsibility for having diabetes on the individual,” Lamsam said. But there are no magic words to make a person live healthier or lose weight. “Weight loss requires fairly intensive management.
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