TOP6NEWS - Date 11.15.04
1-NEWS: CA DP law will be challenged
2-NEWS: FMA may come back to Senate floor
3-NEWS: UT m amendment used for other purposes
4-NEWS: One year anniversary of Goodridge finds mixed results
5-NEWS: Transsexual jailed for lying about gender, wants to m as woman
6-NEWS: ABC news says M. Shepard may not have been a hate crime
________________________________________________________
1-NEWS: CA DP law will be challenged
The Desert Sun, CA, November 13th, 2004
By Jake Henshaw
Activists trying to overturn state laws granting major legal rights and obligations to domestic partners Friday announced a new two-track legal and political strategy.
The challengers said they will appeal a trial court decision that upheld the law, which primarily takes effect Jan. 1, and will try to recall the judge who rendered the trial court decision.
Full Article
BACK TO TOP
________________________________________________________
2-NEWS: FMA may come back to Senate floor
By Anne E. Kornblut, Globe Staff
Emboldened by the 11-state sweep of bans on same-sex marriage Nov. 2, conservative leaders intend to fuel the debate further when they return with an expanded majority to the next Congress, and press vulnerable Democrats into an awkward corner over the divisive issue.
There is little chance a federal constitutional amendment will pass the House or Senate with the necessary two-thirds' majority, but advocates expect it to be reintroduced in both chambers, prompting a vote that would placate conservatives and could then be used against Democrats up for reelection in 2006.
Full Article
BACK TO TOP
________________________________________________________
3-NEWS: UT m amendment used for other purposes
Deseret Morning News, UT
By Deborah Bulkeley and Linda Thomson
Legal questions are starting to emerge - along with serious uncertainties about personal relationships - now that voters have supported amending the Utah Constitution to say that marriage exists only between a man and a woman.
Newly passed Amendment 3 takes effect Jan. 1, but already Utah lawyers are exploring ways to employ this legal standard - based on its second sentence, which prevents the legal recognition of any domestic union that is the same, or substantially equivalent, to a marriage.
Full Article
BACK TO TOP
________________________________________________________
4-NEWS: One year anniversary of Goodridge finds mixed results
By By KAREN TESTA / Associated Press Writer
Saturday, November 13, 2004
One year ago, the fight for gay marriage rights appeared to be gaining ground. Though dozens of states had passed defense of marriage laws, advocates took heart in state-sanctioned civil unions in Vermont, expanded domestic partnership benefits in California, and a Supreme Court decision striking down the Texas sodomy law.
Full Article
BACK TO TOP
________________________________________________________
5-NEWS: Transsexual jailed for lying about gender, wants to marry as woman
CourtTV
By Jessica Su, Court TV
She was born a man, became a woman, was betrothed to a man, and then was thrown in jail for it.
Now, instead of paying a $500 fine on charges she lied about her gender, Sandy Gast is waging a legal battle for transsexual rights in Kansas.
Full Article
BACK TO TOP
________________________________________________________
6-NEWS: ABC news says M. Shepard may not have been a hate crime
by Doug Windsor 365Gay.com New York Bureau
ABC news is preparing an investigative report that claims Matthew Shepard may not have been the victim of a hate crime, but rather a robbery that went terribly wrong.
The report is scheduled to air on 20/20 on Nov. 26. The network has not provided advance copies to the media.
Full Article
BACK TO TOP
