TOP6NEWS - Date 11.1.04

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1-NEWS:  One more report on marriage amendments

2-NEWS:  Not many same sex couples getting married in MA

3-NEWS:  EU nominee drops bid for Justice ministership

4-OP-ED:  The point of marriage amendment is to limit judge's power

5-OP-ED:  New Yorker article: Department of ambivalence

6-OP-ED:  EJ Graff: SSM is coming, despite marriage amendments

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1-NEWS:  One more report on marriage amendments

By DAVID CRARY
AP National Writer
11 States to Vote on Same-Sex Marriage
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2-NEWS:  Not many same sex couples getting marriage in MA

Few same-sex couples saying 'I do'
By Benjamin Gedan, Globe Correspondent
Far fewer same-sex couples are getting married in Somerville, just five months after the city sparked a national controversy by defying the governor and marrying out-of-state same-sex couples.
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3-NEWS:  EU nominee drops bid for Justice ministership
Items compiled from Tribune news services
Published October 31, 2004
Under attack for calling homosexuality sinful, Christian Democrat and papal confidant Rocco Buttiglione said Saturday that he was abandoning efforts to become European Union justice commissioner, a bid that had kept the new EU Commission from taking office.
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4-OP-ED:  The point of marriage amendment is to limit judge's power

By ROSE RUSSELL
Toledo Blade

Published: Saturday, October 30, 2004
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5-OP-ED:  New Yorker article: Department of ambivalence

DEPT. OF AMBIVALENCE:  THE STRUGGLE
Issue of 2004-11-08  Posted 2004-11-01

It was hard to find anyone at the recent anti-gay-marriage rally in Washington, D.C., who had a bad word to say about gays. Chandra Judy, who had come to the "Mayday for Marriage" rally on the Mall with her husband, Manford, and their ten-month-old baby, Eloise, "really wanted to say," for instance, "that this was not about gay-bashing."

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6-OP-ED:  EJ Graff: Same Sex Marriage is coming, despite marriage amendments

THE NEW REPUBLIC ONLINE
Only at TNR Online  DAILY EXPRESS
by E.J. Graff
Post date: 10.29.04

This Tuesday, eleven states will pass constitutional amendments banning recognition of same-sex marriage--and most will do so with numbers topping 60, 70, and even 80 percent in favor.

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