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TOP6NEWS - Date 10.25.04

1-NEWS: Nova Scotia declares gay couple 'husband and wife'

2-NEWS: J. Stacey to PFLAG: children of gays are fine

3-NEWS: TimeEurope: The fight over gay fights

4-OP-ED: J. Bell, F. Cannon: President Kerry means only a matter of time before same sex marriage

5-OP-ED: N. Kristof: God and sex

6-FEATURE: NY Times profiles daughter of lesbians

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1-NEWS: Nova Scotia declares gay couple 'husband and wife'

N.S. law declares gay couple 'husband and wife'
CTV.ca News Staff
Two gay men in Nova Scotia are celebrating their recent marriage -- but not a loophole in the law that pronounced them "man and wife."

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2-NEWS: J. Stacey to PFLAG: children of gays are fine

Gays' offspring do fine, expert says
Support group hears findings at S.L. convention
By Elaine Jarvik
Deseret Morning News
The research - all the research - shows that the children of gay and lesbian parents turn out fine, says sociologist Judith Stacey.
Stacey, the co-author of a controversial mega-analysis of gay parenting research, spoke Friday to the national convention of PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), which is meeting this weekend at the Little America Hotel. "It's amazingly brave and impressive of you to be holding your national conference in this place at this time," Stacey told the 400 attendees, referring to Utah's pending vote on a state amendment to outlaw same-sex marriages.
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3-NEWS: TimeEurope: The fight over gay fights

The Fight Over Gay Fights
By James Graff
Sunday, Oct. 24, 2004
Rocco Buttiglione could hardly have anticipated the firestorm he was about to unleash. Appearing earlier this month at what should have been a routine hearing before a European Parliament committee, the E.U. Commissioner - designate for Justice, Freedom and Security was asked about discrimination against homosexuals.

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4-OP-ED: J. Bell, F. Cannon: President Kerry means only a matter of time before same sex marriage

Courting the Gay Vote
From the November 1 / November 8, 2004 issue: What John Kerry told the Advocate.
By Jeffrey Bell & Frank Cannon
If President Bush is reelected, it's a good bet that the bloodiest fight of his fifth year in office will have nothing to do with the war or the economy. It will be over the filling of one or more vacancies on the Supreme Court.
If Sen. John Kerry is elected, suspense will quickly drain away from the future of the court. This is true even if the court's nine members, eight of them now 65 or older, confound expectations by staying where they are for another year or two. Because even without turnover, at least five members of the present court will undoubtedly interpret the election of John Kerry as a mandate to complete the social revolution they and other judges have begun.
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5-OP-ED: N. Kristof: God and sex
By Nicholas D. Kristof
NY Times
Published: October 23, 2004
So when God made homosexuals who fall deeply, achingly in love with each other, did he goof?
That seems implicit in the measures opposing gay marriage on the ballots of 11 states. All may pass; Oregon is the only state where the outcome seems uncertain.

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6-FEATURE: NY Times profiles daughter of lesbians

Growing Up With Mom and Mom
By SUSAN DOMINUS
NY Times
Ry Russo-Young, a 22-year-old filmmaker and performer, has a lot to explain, starting with her name. It's Ry, just Ry, not short for Ryan, or a misspelling of Ray, or a nickname someone gave her as a child or a pretension she took on in her teens. Ry is simply a name that her mothers liked the sound of when they named her, an act of creativity as novel and yet, to their minds, as natural as the conception of Ry herself, a feat that involved the sperm of a gay man, the egg of a lesbian in love and one very clean glass syringe.

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