TOP6NEWS - Date 12.9.04

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1-NEWS:  Canadian Supreme Court approves ssm bill, back to Parliament
2-NEWS:  New Zealand Parliament passes CUs

3-NEWS: A couple with a MA marriage moves to NC

4-NEWS:  UT judge: girl better off with two mothers

5-NEWS: Debate over gay groups pace becoming more public

6-OP-ED: S. Kurtz: The future of the Left

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1-NEWS: Canadian Supreme Court approves ssm bill, back to Parliament

By KIRK MAKIN

Globe and Mail Update

A federal proposal to extend marriage rights to gays and lesbians would be constitutional, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday in a unanimous opinion.  The court, however, called a federal bluff by refusing to answer whether the current common-law definition of marriage, which excludes same-sex couples, is constitutional.

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2-NEWS: New Zealand Parliament passes CUs

By NICK VENTER AND MAGGIE TAIT Manawatu Standard (NZ)

Jubilant supporters of the Civil Union Bill hugged, kissed and cheered as emotion overflowed inside and outside Parliament's debating chamber yesterday.

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3-NEWS: A couple with a MA marriage moves to NC Married in Mass., single in N.C.

CRISTINA BOLLING, Charlotte Observer Staff Writer

Karen Kitchens-Law and Mary Stuart Law were sitting in their lawyer's office in July, closing on their $343,000 home in University City, when they came across a question in the paperwork:

Are you married?

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4-NEWS: UT judge: girl better off with two mothers

By Elizabeth Neff The Salt Lake Tribune

After considering Utah law and the best interests of a 3-year-old girl, 3rd District Judge Timothy Hanson has decided the child is better off with two mothers.
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5-NEWS: Debate over gay groups pace becoming more public

Groups Debate Slower Strategy on Gay Rights By JOHN M. BRODER NY Times

Leaders of the gay rights movement are embroiled in a bitter and increasingly public debate over whether they should moderate their goals in the wake of bruising losses in November when 11 states approved constitutional amendments prohibiting same-sex marriages.

HRC did not like this article. See press release

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6-OP-ED: S. Kurtz: The future of the Left

Stanley Kurtz

In an important article, Peter Beinart, editor of The New Republic, has called for a new, more hawkish, liberalism. A liberalism incapable of confronting the threat from al Qaeda with the very same passion it devotes to the quest for gay marriage or universal health care is a liberalism doomed to failure, says Beinart.

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