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Santa Cruz County To Consider Gay Marriage
Supervisor Wants County To Issue Licenses To Same-Sex Couples
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- Santa Cruz County may join San Francisco in its fight to make gay marriage legal.

The issue is on the agenda for the Board of Supervisors when they meet next week.
Supervisor Mardi Wormhoudt said will ask her colleagues to authorize her to write a letter asking County Clerk Richard Bedal to change his position on gay marriage and issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Wormhoudt also wants to direct legal staff to research ways to join in San Francisco's lawsuit against the state seeking to legalize same-sex marriages. Finally, she wants the county to pass a resolution opposing a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages.
It's a position that's expected to meet stiff opposition in the community.


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Administration Proposes Same-Sex-School Option
    By Diana Jean Schemo
    The New York Times
    Thursday 04 March 2004
     WASHINGTON, March 3 — The Bush administration has proposed regulations giving public school districts new freedom to create same-sex classes and schools, as long as "substantially equal" opportunities are also provided for the excluded sex.


     Supporters and critics alike said the proposed changes represented a major reinterpretation of antidiscrimination laws, some 50 years after the Supreme Court discredited racial segregation in "separate but equal" schools as inherently unequal, and 30 years after Title IX extended the concept to sex.