Hmm. Republican male state senators. There are about 16 bad GOP senators and
the males of those would be Steffes, Vidricksen, Salmans, Huelskamp, Morris,
Clark, Donovan, Tyson, Umbarger, Jordan and Pugh (the bad GOP women are
Lawrence, Hardenburger, Bleeker, Brownlee, and Harrington). 

Main suspects:

   Clark seems to have become the defacto leader of the religious right wing
of the senate since Harris moved away to work for the Michigan chapter of Gary
Bauer's Family Research Council. 

   Donovan the sleazy Wichita car salesman was one of the first openly antigay
activists to get elected to the legislature after the Wichita clinic protests
in 1991 and mass arrests galvanized the state's churches into political
mobilization. He was chosen to replace Harris by his precinct captains.
Donovan was one of only 12 or so reps to cosponsor the antigay Cornfield
Resolution and Sue Ledbetter told me once that she really felt the Cornfield
Resolution was more his doing than Rep Cornfield's.  

    Umbarger, a freshman elected in a relatively Democratic district in
southeast Kansas on Dole's coat tails, is the one right wing male member of
the Senate education committee and is a suspect for that reason.

Committee members:

Senate Education Committee

meets in Room 123-S

Lawrence, Chairperson; Langworthy, Vice Chairperson; Bleeker, Emert, 
Kerr, Oleen, Umbarger. (of these, Lawrence, Bleeker and Umbarger are the
rightwingers. Barbara Lawrence is one of the few Senate chairs who is somewhat
sympathetic to the religious right and has to be watched. Moderates Emert,
Oleen, and Kerr voted to table/block the same sex marriage ban in 1996.)

Downey, Ranking Minority Member; Hensley, Jones, Lee. 
(these Democrats are not particularly liberal or conservative)