Gay-Marriage Bans Advance in Wis., Kan.
Friday March 5, 2004 5:46 PM
By CHERIE HENDERSON
Associated Press Writer

Lawmakers in Wisconsin and Kansas pushed ahead Friday on efforts to amend their states' constitutions to ban gay marriage, two days after Utah's Legislature agreed to put the question to voters.


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Do not settle for this...the consolation prize is still second, and separate but equal...


Friday, March 05, 2004
The Advocate
Washington governor: marriage, no; civil unions, yes
Washington State governor Gary Locke says he opposes same-sex marriage but favors civil unions that would give gay couples many of the same rights and responsibilities. The Democratic governor said Wednesday he also opposes the constitutional amendment option backed by President Bush to enshrine a same-sex marriage ban in the U.S. Constitution. "I don't think we should change our federal Constitution willy-nilly," the governor said. As scores of gay couples tied the knot in Portland, Oregon's largest city, Oregon governor Ted Kulongoski cautioned that the new county policy allowing same-sex marriages may be illegal.
He stressed that Oregon's marriage statute, passed in 1863, needs to be read within its historical context.


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House To Begin Anti-Gay Amendment Hearings
by Paul Johnson
365Gay.com Newscenter
Posted: March 5, 2004 11:03 a.m. ET
(Washington, D.C.) The House Constitution subcommittee is preparing to hold hearings on legislation to amend the US Constitution to block same-sex marriage.  The announcement comes just one day after the parallel subcommittee in the Senate began its own hearings.
 
"The people and their elected representatives -- and not a handful of rogue judges and officials -- should have the right to make decisions regarding marriage policy," said House subcommittee chair Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio)


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this should be happening everywhere... day after day...

Denial of Gay Marriages in Buffalo and NY
(Buffalo, NY, March 4, 2004) - - Gay couples here in Buffalo and across New York are challenging a state law that does not allow them to get married.

News 4's Marie Rice is in our newsroom with more 1 couple's attempt to get hitched at Buffalo's City Hall this Friday morning. Gay couples around the state are showing up at clerks' offices today requesting marriage licenses. The Buffalo City Clerk's Office is denying gay couples marriage licenses saying State Law prohibits it.


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I think what is interesting is the long history of complaints from the consumptive conservative media on liberal spin, and now this headline.. you can almost see these little money grubbing christian rubbing there hands and smiling like scrooge... we won..

ps.. there is on spin on the above commentary...

Wis. Assembly OKs Outlawing Gay Marriage
By JR ROSS
Associated Press Writer
MADISON, Wis. (AP)
--The state Assembly approved a proposed amendment to the Wisconsin Constitution on Friday to prohibit same-sex marriages or civil unions.