Activists want to send a message to Barbara Boxer

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California voters, who have an election tomorrow, are being asked to send a message to Senator Barbara Boxer. The liberal Senator has taken a public stance against San Francisco's attempt to bring fairness to state sanctioned marriages and deemed the state law "appropriate because it gives equal rights and responsibilities to all citizens." Boxer also "agrees with the law's definition that marriage is between a man and a woman." With Boxer running unopposed in the Democratic primary, activists are pushing a write-in campaign for San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. We've received numerous emails on the subject and we're passing along the information.

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Gay marriage vote too close to call
Legislators waver under pressure
By ERNIE SUGGS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 02/28/04
Support for a proposed constitutional amendment against gay marriage shrank by several crucial votes Saturday, as African-American lawmakers around the state rallied their colleagues to oppose it.
Two African-Americans who did not vote on the proposal in the House of Representatives last week said they would vote against it when it comes up for a second vote this week. The lone black representative who backed the legislation said he may switch his vote. And a white representative who did not vote last week said she would walk away again.


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Soulforce Civil Disobedience to 'Shut Down' Church Trial of Methodist Minister Karen Dammann - 3/17
LYNCHBURG, VA - March 1 - On March 17, 2004, in Bothell WA, the United Methodist Church will hold a church trial against Rev. Karen Dammann, an openly lesbian pastor in the Seattle area, who admitted to church leaders that she is in a covenantal relationship with another woman and they are raising a child together. Rev. Dammann is being charged with violating the United Methodist Book of Discipline because she is a “self-avowed practicing homosexual.”



JOIN SOULFORCE IN BOTHELL, WASHINGTON (near Seattle)
FOR THE TRIAL OF REV. KAREN DAMMANN
Non-Violent Training – March 16, 2004
Direct Action / Civil Disobedience, March 17, 2004


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Kansas v. Matthew Limon Case Background

IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF KANSAS
STATE OF KANSAS, Appellee,v.
MATTHEW R. LIMON,


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Lies, Damn Lies and Politicians
by Rosa Maria Pegueros


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Bliss and Bigotry
by Bob Herbert