Sides clash over gay marriage amendment
By JIM THARPE
Cox News Service
ATLANTA - Conservative Christians squared off against gay rights supporters Monday at the state Capitol in vocal rallies, but by day's end it was unclear if either side had gained any ground in Georgia's cultural war over same-sex marriage.

Senate Resolution 595, which would amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage, was sent back to a legislative committee after the full House of Representatives on Monday voted 127-48 to reconsider the measure.


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Gay marriage state issue, Voinovich says
By Andrew Welsh-Huggins
Associated Press
COLUMBUS

- U.S. Sen. George Voinovich, concerned about the ``divisiveness and rancor'' of a debate over amending the constitution, said Monday that banning gay marriage should be left up to the states for now.


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If you live in Georgia... call do not let them pass the vote

Legislature to debate gay marriage again
By Kristen Wyatt
ATLANTA — Georgia House members will debate a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage — again — after voting Monday to reconsider their rejection of the amendment last week.
The House voted 127-48 to have another vote on the same-sex marriage ban. Last week, the Democrat-controlled chamber was three votes short of the two-thirds majority required to change the constitution.

The reconsideration vote sets up another debate on the matter and was cheered by Christian conservatives, thousands of whom rallied earlier in the day for a new vote.
‘‘I’m just hoping and praying they’ll take this second chance and do the right thing,’’ said Sadie Fields, head of the Christian Coalition in Georgia.


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If you live in Mississippi, call you state senator and defeat the *gay marriage ban*

House nudges gay marriage toward ballot
* Resolution would lead to Nov. vote on amendment
By Andy Kanengiser
Mississippi voters should be asked to define marriage as the union between a man and woman and make it part of the state constitution, the House agreed Monday.

The House voted 97 to 17 for House Concurrent Resolution 56, which would place the issue on the ballot in November


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Supes to speak against gay marriage ban
By Tim Hay, STAFF WRITER
REDWOOD CITY -- County Supervisor Rich Gordon and his partner of 21 years, Dennis McShane, would like to get married and enjoy the same benefits heterosexual couples have. "But there's part of me that that wants to wait until I can do it here," Gordon said Monday.

That may be a while, because San Mateo County is not following San Francisco's aggressive lead in challenging a state law that defines marriage as between a man and a woman.
Though Gordon's colleagues on the Board of Supervisors will vote today to oppose a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, they are taking a wait-and-see approach to supporting marriage licenses or otherwise rocking the boat.


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and if you do not think this is a cultural war... think again...

SF Mayor Under Police Guard 
(San Francisco, California)San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is under 24 hour police protection following a number of death threats in recent days.


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this is not only hateful but ignorant of who is infected with AIDS..

Controversial Church Sign Condemns 'Homosexual Life'
Pastor's Sign Calls AIDS Punishment For Homosexuality
ELYTON, Ala. --
The controversial sign at New Era Baptist Church in Elyton reads, "AIDS is God's curse on a homosexual life," and despite much protest, the pastor who put the sign up says it won't come down.


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SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
Counties wait for courts
Clerks under oath to uphold law

Gay activists pushing other Bay Area counties to expand the same-sex marriage license rebellion beyond San Francisco have been met by officials who -- while sympathetic -- say their hands are tied unless the California Supreme Court changes state law banning gay marriage.

But elected county leaders aren't sitting in silence about their opposition to President Bush's proposed constitutional amendment banning same- sex marriage.

The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors is expected to pass a resolution today slamming the amendment, saying that altering the Constitution is a serious action that "should not be taken for political, trivial or mean-spirited reasons.'


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STATE SUPREME COURT
Group asks to join Lockyer's petition to halt same-sex marriages
Harriet Chiang, Chronicle Staff Writer
An anti-gay-marriage group asked Monday to intervene in California Attorney General Bill Lockyer's effort to have the California Supreme Court stop San Francisco's same-sex nuptials, saying it questions whether Lockyer would vigorously defend state laws defining marriage as between a man and a woman.


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TWO CENTS
Bay Area residents speak out on same-sex marriage
Bay Area residents speak out on same-sex marriage.
We have been together since 1986, taking advantage of every opportunity to document our desire to be treated as a married couple. We have been registered as domestic partners in San Francisco and the state of California.

On Feb. 12, when it appeared that there might be an opportunity to be legally married, we went to City Hall with hope. We were not disappointed, as we were among the first couples to be married. We returned from City Hall with incredible joy and a marriage license.


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Spitzer comes out for gays
By JOE MAHONEY
State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer ALBANY - State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer declared yesterday that same-sex couples should be allowed to wed - openly defying Gov. Pataki's stance on the controversial issue.

"I have no problem with gay marriage," Spitzer told the Daily News. "I think the law has moved to a point where people are comfortable that [marriage] can be extended to people of the same sex,"


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Dennis Duggan Time to take a stand on same-sex marriages
March 2, 2004
First there was San Francisco, then New Paltz and now, perhaps New York City, where City Council Speaker Gifford Miller is challenging one and all on same-sex marriage, an issue that has a lot of pols twisting in the wind.
"There are moments in history where people either have to stand up or decide that they will not," said Miller, who is standing up for same-sex marriages.