Institute of Hate
Right-wingers are targeting liberal pastors -- including at least one in S.F. -- who favor gay marriage
The Rev. Karen Oliveto, the personable pastor of Bethany United Methodist Church in Noe Valley, is the last person one might imagine to be the subject of scrutiny from a former CIA analyst employed by a pressure group co-founded by a one-time collaborator of Col. Oliver North.

In most ways Oliveto is like any other Methodist minister: She organizes church suppers, gives Communion, leads funerals, baptizes children, preaches the Christian gospel, and performs weddings -- she joined eight couples in the first 2 1/2 weeks of this month. But because those weddings were for same-sex partners,...(more)



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New York Gay Weddings To Continue

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Pope urges authorities to stop gay marriages


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Just-Married Gay Couples Ask What's Wrong
Just-Married Gay Couples Wonder What's Wrong With Desire to Be Functioning Families


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Pataki, Bloomberg Cautious On Gay Weddings
(ALBANY) While President Bush's call for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution banning gay marriage may help solidify his conservative base, it has caused political headaches for New York Republicans. Both Gov. George Pataki and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, while not openly criticizing the president, have said they don't see any need for such an amendment. "I believe it is up to the states, not to the federal government ... I don't think we need a constitutional amendment," the mayor said at a press conference Wednesday.


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Gay Marriages - God's Rules and Caesar's
Pacific News Service
by Peter Y. Sussman
President Bush is violating his contract with the people by insisting that his religious view on marriage be included in the secular Constitution.
White House press secretary Scott McClellan said it exactly right when he told the media that President Bush "has always strongly believed that marriage is a sacred institution between a man and a woman."