TOP6NEWS - Date 10.27.04
1-NEWS: Bush's comments on CUs upset pro-family groups
2-NEWS: GA Supreme Court keeps marriage amendment on ballot
3-NEWS: SF judge sets Prop 22 constitutionality hearing Dec. 22
4-NEWS: Gays hope to swing close elections
5-NEWS: EU president withdraws team, delays vote
6-NEWS: Lambda filed asylum appeal for gay Mexican
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1-NEWS: Bush's comments on CUs upset pro-family groups
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 26, 2004
Some conservative groups expressed dismay Tuesday over President Bush's tolerance of state-sanctioned civil unions between gay people -- laws that would grant same-sex partners most or all the rights available to married couples.
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2-NEWS: GA Supreme Court keeps marriage amendment on ballot
By SONJI JACOBS, BILL RANKIN
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Georgians can vote next week on whether to ban same-sex marriage.
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3-NEWS: SF judge sets Prop 22 constitutionality hearing Dec. 22
Judge sets hearing on same-sex marriage ban
By: Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
A San Francisco judge Tuesday scheduled a hearing for Dec. 22 to try to determine whether California's ban on same-sex marriage is constitutional.
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4-NEWS: Gays hope to swing close elections
Gays hope to sway close elections
By Cheryl Wetzstein
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Homosexual voters are expected to flock to the polls on Tuesday in a bid to tip as many close elections as they can to the Democrats, with presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry likely to get 90 percent of their vote.
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5-NEWS: EU president withdraws team, delays vote
CONSTANT BRAND, Associated Press Writer
Incoming European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso withdrew his embattled 24-member executive team from consideration by the European Parliament on Wednesday, realizing he faced an unprecedented rejection.
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6-NEWS: Lambda filed asylum appeal for gay Mexican
By: Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
A gay rights group challenged on Tuesday an immigration judge's decision that a gay Mexican man, who fled after being beaten and threatened by police, is not entitled to political asylum because his sexual orientation is not obvious and he could avoid harm by pretending to be straight.
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