TOP6NEWS - Date 11.22.04

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1-NEWS:  NEWS: ACLU Drops Gay Marriage Case in Oregon

2-NEWS:  New Front In FL/VA Gay Adoption War

3-NEWS:  Conservatives urge closer look at marriage

4-NEWS:  Cardinal Ratzinger Issues statement on SSM

5-NEWS:  Oregon lawmaker who supported FMA pushes civil unions bill

6-OP-ED:  Who Guarantees What?

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1-NEWS:  ACLU Drops Gay Marriage Case in Oregon

Reuters, Nov. 19, 2004
PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - After Oregonians voted to ban same-sex
marriages earlier this month, a gay rights advocate has given up its
fight to take its case to the state's supreme court, activists said on
Friday.
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2-NEWS:  New Front In FL/VA Gay Adoption War

New Front In Fla. Gay Adoption War
by Fidel Ortega 365Gay.com Miami Bureau
LGBT civil rights group have opened a new front in the war to win adoption rights for gays and lesbians in Florida.
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3-NEWS:  Conservatives urge closer look at marriage
By David Crary, AP National Writer
NEW YORK -- "Protection of marriage" is now the watchword for many
activists fighting to prevent gays and lesbians from marrying. Some
conservatives, however, say marriage in America began unraveling long
before the latest gay-rights push and are pleading for a fresh,
soul-searching look at the institution.
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4-NEWS:  Cardinal Ratzinger Issues statement on SSM

Catholic News Service, November 19, 2004
Gay marriage proposals destructive to society, Vatican official says By John Thavis
Instituting forms of gay marriage does not help homosexuals and is "destructive for the family and for society," Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said.
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5-NEWS:  Oregon lawmaker who supported FMA pushes civil unions bill
The Advocate

Just a few weeks ago, Oregon state senator Ben Westlund voted yes on
Measure 36 to ban same-sex marriages in Oregon. Now, the central Oregon
lawmaker is hard at work drafting a civil unions bill for the
2005 legislature to give gay and lesbian couples some of the rights
bestowed on married couples. "It's just the right thing to do," the
Tumalo Republican says. "Nothing in Measure 36 prevents the legislature
from affording equal rights and privileges to same-sex couples."
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6-OP-ED:  WHO GUARANTEES WHAT?
James J. Kilpatrick
UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE, November 20, 2004
At its closed-door conference next Wednesday, the Supreme Court will
decide whether to hear the great gay marriage case from Massachusetts.
My guess is that the justices will vote "no" and then go home for
Thanksgiving. I have guessed wrong a good many times before.

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