TOP6NEWS - Date 12.6.04

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1-NEWS:  Another 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell suit filed
2-NEWS:  Lewis in court on Tuesday

3-NEWS: ME House Speaker wants legislature to consider CUs

4-NEWS:  CA briefs filed: M is for children

5-OP-ED: M. Coles: Don't just sue-do something useful

6-OP-ED: M. Cuomo: 'Sacred' shouldn't override science

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1-NEWS:  Another 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell suit filed

'Don't ask, don't tell' draws fire
By Nancy Zuckerbrod
The Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy is being challenged by 12 former service members who were separated from the military because of their homosexuality.  They planned to file a federal lawsuit today in Boston that would cite last year's landmark Supreme Court ruling that overturned state laws making gay sex a crime as grounds for overturning the policy.

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2-NEWS: Lewis in court on Tuesday
BY ROBERT SCHWANEBERG, Star-Ledger Staff
It is early evening in the Nicholson-McFadden household and soup simmers on the stove as 22-month-old Maya nestles in her mother's lap, watching an Elmo videotape.

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3-NEWS: ME House Speaker wants legislature to consider CUs

By SUSAN M. COVER, Staff Writer 
House Speaker John Richardson said Friday that he'd like the Legislature to consider allowing gays and lesbians to enter into civil unions.

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4-NEWS: CA briefs filed: Marriage is for children

Calif. proponents: Gay marriage harms children
By Associated Press 
Proponents of gay marriage told a judge that arguments over whether marriage is designed to foster procreation and whether gays make good parents are irrelevant to their case.
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5-NEWS:  M. Coles: Don't just sue-do something useful

December 1, 2004
The Constitutional Amendments:
Don’t Just Don’t Sue  –  Do Something Useful
On election day 2004, 11 states added new sections to exclude same-sex couples from marriage.  Two others did the same thing at the end of the summer.  Add those to the four states that passed amendments in the last six years, and now a third of the states constitutionally exclude same-sex couples from marriage.

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6-OP-ED: M. Cuomo: 'Sacred' shouldn't override science

'Sacred' shouldn't override science
By Mario M. Cuomo
The brilliance of the Founding Fathers has been confirmed by the astonishing success of their experiment in republican democracy, but they by no means created a nation free of the tensions and challenges produced by diversity. The 13 states that linked themselves in a new union maintained a high degree of individuality, as did the varied populations in each of them.

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