TOP6NEWS - Date
1-NEWS: Federal suit filed in OK
2-NEWS: The marriage amendments
3-NEWS: Was ssm Kerry's undoing?
4-NEWS: Gay rights activists looking to courts
5-NEWS: Slovakia won't recognize EU gay laws
6-OP-ED: E. Wolfson's initial reaction
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1-NEWS: Federal suit filed in OK
Broken Arrow
Four women have filed a federal lawsuit challenging a constitutional amendment passed by voters this week that bans same-sex marriage.
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2-NEWS: The marriage amendments
Same-Sex Bans Fuel Conservative Agenda
By Alan Cooperman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Measures banning same-sex marriage passed by wide margins in all 11 states that had them on Tuesday's ballot, in what conservative groups described yesterday as a sweeping popular rejection of a Massachusetts court's decision to allow gay marriage in that state.
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3-NEWS: Was same sex marriage Kerry's undoing?
San Francisco Chronicle, MA
Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau
San Francisco did not vote for President Bush, but the pictures of wedded gay and lesbian couples streaming from its City Hall last February may have helped return him to the White House.
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4-NEWS: Gay rights activists looking to courts
Gay-rights activists look to the courts
By Lornet Turnbull
Seattle Times staff reporter
A year that brought gay and lesbian couples hope, when the potential for legitimate marriage seemed euphorically within reach, came to a dispiriting end for many of them Tuesday at the ballot box.
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5-NEWS: Slovakia won't recognize EU gay laws
By 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
At a meeting of European Union foreign affairs ministers in Brussels Slovakia said it would not recognize some sections of the European human rights laws, especially in the areas of gay rights.
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6-OP-ED: E. Wolfson's initial reaction
What does Tuesday's election mean for the movement toward marriage equality?
By EVAN WOLFSON , Freedom to Marry
A divided America went to the polls and it appears that George W. Bush has won this very close race.
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