Gay unions push new publishing frontiers
By Martha Mendoza
SAN FRANCISCO - When Zandra Rolon and Lori Rogers took the opportunity for gay couples to marry and exchanged their vows in San Francisco last week, they didn't just tell their friends about it. They put it in the local paper.


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San Francisco to stop gay
weddings, if court rules
 SAN FRANCISCO—San Francisco, at the center of a heated national debate over the issue of same-sex marriage, would stop gay and lesbian weddings if a court ruled the city was breaking state law, the city mayor said on Saturday.


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Hurdles face gay-marriage ban in state legislatures, which get final say on amendment
ROBERT TANNER, AP National Writer
Sunday, February 29, 2004
Whether to amend the U.S. Constitution to outlaw gay marriages is a question that's provoking arguments across the country. But it's one the public will never vote on directly. The idea -- proposed last week by President Bush -- would ultimately be decided by state legislators in at least 38 states, assuming it gets enough support in Congress first.