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Tuesday, March 09, 2004

Silicon Valley Capital Recognizes Gay Marriages
Tue Mar 9, 2004 09:49 PM ET
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)
- Legislators in San Jose, California, the center of Silicon Valley, agreed on Tuesday night to recognize gay marriage licenses granted by San Francisco and other cities.



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Whoopi Goldberg brings same-sex debate to TV sitcom y


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Memo says marriage laws might be unconstitutional
03/10/2004
Associated Press
In a non-binding memo to lawmakers, the Legislature's chief legal counsel said the state's marriage law could be found unconstitutional because it treats same-sex couples as unequal to heterosexuals.

Greg Chaimov said a 1998 appeals court decision defines gays and lesbians as a protected class, which means even a civil union label could be considered unconstitutional.

Chaimov said there has to be a reason to treat people differently, and he was unable to find a sufficient rationale for limiting marriage to heterosexual couples.
"Traditionally, the justification for limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples is that opposite-sex couples are capable of bearing children and are more appropriate for raising children," he said. "With changes in technology, childbearing is no longer l



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Gay marriage supporters defeat restrictions, seek registry
by Steven T. Dennis and Thomas Dennison
March 10, 2004
ANNAPOLIS -- Gay rights advocates successfully beat back attempts to tighten the state's ban on same-sex marriages and have high hopes of enacting a domestic partners registry that they hope will be a steppingstone to full marriage rights.


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The Risks of Waging 'Culture War'
by James Carroll
 POLITICIANS who spark a culture war for the sake of their own power are playing with fire, and journalists who exploit a culture war for the sake of its unleashed furies are throwing gasoline on the flames. At the beginning of the presidential election contest, that is history's warning to America.

Ever since the graphic designers of television networks began splitting the states into blue and red factions on election night, the impression of a radically divided nation has defined the conventional wisdom. Yet the conflicts of the culture war do not concern such essential questions as the war in Iraq, the war on terrorism, tax reform, trade policy, deficit spending, jobless recovery, the overburdened health care system, or the sorry state of public education. On these complex matters Americans' responses are not readily pigeon-holed, and politicians across the political spectrum are no more able to offer easy solutions to such problems than anyone else.
The nation is less divided on the momentous issues than it seems. The culture war rages less around policy than "values."


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Gay Marriage Supporters, Opponents Rally Support
State Lawmakers Set To Resume Debate Thursday
BOSTON --
A constitutional convention doesn't reconvene until Thursday, but both sides in the gay marriage debate already converged on the Statehouse Tuesday.


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Bar association against a Pa. ban on same-sex adoptions
Philadelphia Bar Association Chancellor Gabriel L.I. Bevilacqua said the bar opposes state legislation that would prohibit adoptions for same-sex couples and forbid taxpayer-funded benefits for domestic partners.


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Death Threats In Portland Over Gay Marriage
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
Posted: March 9, 2004 8:01 p.m. ET
(Portland, Oregon) Police in Portland, Oregon are investigating death threats against Multnomah County Commissioners over the county's decision to allow same-sex couples to marry. 


Commissioner Lisa Naito said Tuesday that she and some of her fellow commissioners have received a number of death threats and obscene and “hateful” correspondence since deciding to issue marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples.



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Student to sue Seton Hall for refusal to recognize gay group

As a youth in upstate New York, Anthony Romeo said he dared not disclose that he was gay. He said he chose to attend Seton Hall University in New Jersey because he believed its antibias policy would allow him to found a gay and lesbian student group. Romeo organized such a group, but his efforts to obtain full recognition from the Roman Catholic university have been rejected, leading him to prepare a lawsuit.

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