Benefits for Domestic Partners Affect Many


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Is gay the new black?
By c.e. adams
Is permitting gay marriage such a threat to American society that it needs a constitutional restriction? Or have gays just replaced blacks as the minority community that is openly discriminated against?


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Newsom to Bush: “Keep your hands off the Constitution”
Interview by Jeremy Quittner
Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco who single-handedly began the current nationwide wave of same-sex marriages, has a few words for President Bush—including “cowardly” and “shameful.” In this Advocate.com exclusive interview, Newsom talks about his motives, his heroes, and how history will see things.


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Paper removes reporter, photographer from gay marriage story
BETH FOUHY
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO -The San Francisco Chronicle removed its lead City Hall reporter and photographer from covering the city's same-sex marriage controversy after the longtime lesbian partners were wed last week.


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Senate passes resolution to define marriage in state constitution
SHELIA HARDWELL BYRD
Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. - The Senate on Monday unanimously passed a proposed state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriages.