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...last sentence was Kerry’s lone, particularly oblique reference to the Constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage proposed by Congressional Republicans and supported by President Bush. But even this came as something of a surprise in a week where the issue was largely invisible in major speeches...
...projects for GLAAD is to complete their Announcing Equality campaign, which is aimed at creating a directory of newspapers nationwide that print same-sex wedding announcements. It aims to represent a way for BGLT people to share their unions—and for people to know more about the families that share their community. My job is to call up papers from Arkansas to California and ask about their policies. At first, I was skeptical calling papers in some of the states. It didn’t seem to make much sense to try and explain why it was important...
...won’t take long before same-sex wedding announcements start appearing all over the country, even in the communities of “traditional values.” When they do, it will become harder and harder for anti-gay activists to spew their hateful rhetoric against the happily married Mr. and Mr. Smith that live next door and take their daughter to the same dance class...
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist plans to call a vote the week of July 12 on a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. The measure is almost certain to fail. Still, Frist wants to force Democrats--most of whom oppose the amendment, as does the party's presumptive nominee for President, John Kerry--to put their opposition on record in the hope that the issue will hurt them this fall. But some Republican opponents of the amendment are complaining that Frist's ploy will put them on the spot as well. Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee tells TIME...
...person who is not a social conservative, don’t feel at home in this club if we’re going to be going out there and expressing our support for the [constitutional ban on same-sex marriage], for policies where the government attempts to impose moral order on the public,” he says. “I don’t think the club has to be an organization that takes stances on issues that are divisive among Republicans at Harvard. I don’t think that’s particularly productive...