TOP6NEWS - Date 7.28.05

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1-NEWS: CA AG allows 2 more m amendments to begin signature gathering
2-NEWS: UT judge approves Gaysrok license plate
3-NEWS: Child support for IVF baby in court
4-NEWS: UK new m rules will get rid of terms 'spinster' and 'bachelor'
5-NEWS: More on CA amicus opposing 'religiously based discrimination'
6-OP-ED: B. Clemenger on ssm and religious communities
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1-NEWS: CA AG allows 2 more m amendments to begin signature gat

Wyatt Buchanan Thursday, July 28, 2005
Two ballot measures seeking a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in California received approval for circulation from Attorney General Bill Lockyer Wednesday.
Both measures are backed by Gail Knight, widow of Sen. Pete Knight, who led the campaign for Proposition 22 in 2000. And both would limit marriage to one man and one woman. One also would invalidate existing domestic partnership laws, while the other would make same-sex marriage unconstitutional.

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2-NEWS: UT judge approves Gaysrok license plate

'GAYSROK' license plate Thursday, July 28, 2005; Posted: 9:29 a.m. EDT (13:29 GMT)
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) -- The state of Utah can't block a woman from using her license plate to tell the world "GAYSROK," a judge has ruled.
The state has no good reason to prevent Elizabeth Solomon from having that plate -- which can be read "Gays are OK" or "Gays Rock" -- or another one saying "GAYRYTS," according to Jane Phan, an administrative law judge with the Utah State Tax Commission.
"The narrow issue before us is whether a reasonable person would believe the terms 'gays are OK' and 'gay rights' are, themselves, offensive to good taste and decency. It is the conclusion of the commission that a reasonable person would not," Phan wrote.

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3-NEWS: Child support for IVF baby in court

Michelle Charlesworth
(New York -WABC, July 25, 2005) — A child support battle that involves a hospital and a $9 million - it may sound like a soap opera plot but this real life drama is playing out in Brooklyn. The bizarre battle involves a fertility clinic at NYU.
Eyewitness News reporter Michelle Charlesworth is live on Manhattan's east side with the story.
This is a question for men tonight: what happens to sperm in a bank when you stop paying to keep it frozen? Can your estranged wife pick up the freezing bills and use your sperm, then come after you for child support payments? That is at the center of this lawsuit against a sperm bank a wife and a notary public.

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4-NEWS: UK new m rules will get rid of terms 'spinster' and 'bachelor'

New marriage rules to split with spinster and bachelor
BY RUTH GLEDHILL, RELIGION CORRESPONDENT, FOR TIMES ONLINE
The Government is to abolish the traditional terms "spinster" and "bachelor" in new reforms to marriage laws that will coincide with the introduction of gay weddings this year, Times Online has learnt.
Len Cook, the Registrar General, has decreed that marriage registers and certificates will no longer refer to newly-married couples in the late Middle English terminology. Instead, everyone tying the knot, whether gay or straight, will be designated as "single".
Divorced men and women are already denoted as such in marriage registers and on certificates. But those who have never been married are described as spinster and bachelor.

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5-NEWS: More on CA amicus opposing 'religiously based discrimination'

‘Refusing Gays Health Care Unethical Groups Tell Court by Matt Johns 365Gay.com Los Angeles Bureau
Posted: July 27, 2005  5:00 pm ET
San Diego, California) Community and health care groups are countering assertions by the California Medical Association and the Christian Medical and Dental Associations that doctors and medical clinics have the moral right to refuse treatment to gays and lesbians.
In a friend-of-the-court brief to the California Court of Appeal in San Diego a wide array of groups say it is unethical to pick and choose who receives medical services.
The case before the court involves fertility doctors who refused on religious grounds to inseminate their patient, Guadelupe "Lupita" Benitez, who is a lesbian. "We think it's important for the community to recognize that the positions of the CMA and the CMDA in this case do not reflect generally accepted principles of ethics in the practice of medicine," said Joel Ginsberg, Executive Director of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, one of the organizations which filed the amicus brief.

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6-NEWS: B. Clemenger on ssm and religious communities

Canada, July 27, 2005 Same-sex Marriage Is Law: Here's Where We Stand "We are a people of faith, not a people of fear." The president of the EFC—an association of 40 Canadian denominations—speaks to Canadian Christians who support traditional marriage.
By Bruce Clemenger
Bill C-38 is now law. Janet Epp Buckingham has offered her weblog this week to Bruce Clemenger, president of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC), an association of 40 Canadian member denominations and thousands of independent churches and Christian organizations. He speaks here on behalf of the EFC's membership to supporters of the traditional definition of marriage.
Bill C-38 has become law in Canada.
We have not engaged in fear mongering but have realistically tried to assess potential future religious freedom implications … As Canadians, it is a time to lament this fundamental change in the public meaning of marriage. We have all lost an important shared understanding of marriage as the exclusive and enduring union of one man and one woman.

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