Travaglini Sees Enough Support For Marriage Plan
Lawmakers Voted Down Three Proposals Last Month
POSTED: 3:45 pm EST March 8, 2004
BOSTON -- A majority of lawmakers would approve a compromise gay marriage constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union of a man and woman but providing civil union benefits to same-sex couples if a vote was taken today, Senate President Robert Travaglini said Monday.


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11 Arrested At Anti-Gay Marriage Rally   
Posted: March 8, 2004 2:23 p.m. ET
(Asheville, North Carolina)Eleven gay and lesbian protestors were arrested on the weekend during a rally in Asheville, North Carolina to promote traditional marriage.  The event, called a Rally For Family Values and the Sanctity of Marriage Between a Man and a Woman, had a permit to use City-County Plaza, but before it began about 150 gays and lesbians took over the plaza for their own pro same-sex marriage demonstration.


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Poll: No bounce for Bush
WASHINGTON (USATODAY.com) — President Bush got no bounce from his first foray last week onto the campaign trail against Democrat John Kerry, a new USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll shows.
Despite a series of speeches in which he attacked the Massachusetts senator's record and warned that the country would not be safe under his leadership, the poll shows that if the election were today, Kerry would beat Bush, by eight percentage points — 52% to 44% — among likely voters


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Unitarians embrace civil marriage rights
Marysville church seeks equal rights for all regardless of sexual orientation


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Ashcroft's new Internet antiporn gambit
March 8, 2004, 4:00 AM PT
By Declan McCullagh
When John Ashcroft testified before Congress during his confirmation hearings, he left no doubt that he believed the Internet was replete with pornographers who needed to be imprisoned, preferably for a very long time.