Gay marriage debacle leads to death threats
Ben Townley, Gay.com UK
The ongoing row over same-sex marriage in the USA has resulted in death threats being made against legal authorities, it has been revealed.


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Why discriminate
3/10/2004
Boston
OPPONENTS OF gay marriage face a tough task when the state constitutional convention reconvenes tomorrow.


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Gay-marriage lobbying builds
Activists on both sides converge on State House for crucial session
By Yvonne Abraham, Globe Staff, 3/10/2004
On the Grand Staircase in the State House yesterday, dozens of children and their gay and lesbian parents sat together, listening to speeches at a rally for same-sex marriage, applauding loudly. Their opponents traveled from office to office, trying to sway legislators in favor of a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage with legal arguments about its effect on religious freedom.

Legislators found a letter from NAACP president Julian Bond in their mailboxes, calling a federal amendment to ban gay marriage "an attempt to write bigotry into the Constitution" and arguing that efforts in Massachusetts presented the same threat. In homes across the state, television advertisements urged voters to tell their legislators: "Civil unions are not equal. Don't put discrimination in our constitution." On radios, a spot featuring a prominent black minister told listeners: "Same-sex marriage is no civil rights issue. . . . Same-sex unions are really about special rights for a special interest group."


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if you live in boston, call them... do not let them send it to a vote.

The people's right to decide?
By Scot Lehigh, 3/10/2004
IT HAS BECOME a common refrain on Beacon Hill: On the matter of gay marriage, the people must decide. That's the adjuration from both Governor Mitt Romney and Speaker Thomas Finneran.
"The people are fair and tolerant," Romney said recently. "Let the people decide." Echoed Finneran: "We have to put something that's coherent on the ballot for consideration of the people of Massachusetts." If tomorrow's debate is anything like last month's, gay marriage opponents will adopt that refrain as their demand. And "let the people vote" as their chant.


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Appeal challenges sodomy laws
By Elizabeth Neff
The Salt Lake Tribune
    After the U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws banning consensual sodomy last year, prosecutors acknowledged Utah's statute can't be enforced.

    Yet state legislators have made no attempts to take the sodomy laws off the books, although they rushed this year to ensure the same Supreme Court opinion would not lead to gay marriage in Utah.


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Same-sex marriages hit snag
USA Today
BOSTON --
An obscure 1913 law may trip up a wedding march of gay couples from around the country who hoped to come to Massachusetts and get hitched in May.


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this is very scary-.. black list all over..its time to come out of the closet and form coalitions..

The Christian Civic League of Maine is asking supporters for "tips, rumors, speculation and facts" about the sexual orientation of the state's political leaders so it can post the information on its Internet site.