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 | 2008-MAR-03: USA: Focus on
the Family Action raises fear of professional decertification:
Maggie Gallagher is co-founder and president of the National Organization
for Marriage. It is a conservative religious group whose goal is "protecting
marriage and the faith communities that sustain it." The term
"protecting marriage" is frequently used by religious and social
conservatives to refer to actions taken to prevent same-sex couples from marrying. According to
Focus on the Family Action, a fundamentalist Christian group, Gallagher said that
gay activists want to change the definition of marriage because they say the
traditional definition is irrational and bigoted. Gallagher is quoted as saying: |
"What does that mean down the road, if the idea that our ideas about marriage and about sexual morality generally make us the exact equivalent of bigots? You can’t have a professional license in this country — you can’t be a physician, a social worker, a teacher, a lawyer, a psychotherapist, a marriage counselor — if you’re openly racist."
Some might try to make the case that a person who is opposed to same-sex marriage is bigoted against homosexuals and bisexuals. It is not clear to us how this makes a person bigoted on the basis of race.
| 2008-MAR-04: CA: Status of SSM:
The state supreme court holds hearings today on whether the
state constitution grants marriage equality -- i.e. equal marriage rights to
both opposite-sex and same-sex couples. The California Supreme Court will have to
decide whether clauses in the state constitution guaranteeing equal
treatment to all citizens and prohibiting discrimination on the basis of
gender, or whether the existing marriage laws and a year 2000 Proposition 22 will be the
deciding factors in granting or denying marriage equality to same-sex
couples.
Meanwhile, ProtectMarriage.com, a coalition of national, state and local groups, is conducting a petition drive as the first step towards amending the California constitution so that same-sex marriage would be made unconstitutional. They have until April to collect 1.1 million signatures in order to have the public vote in 2008-NOV. 2 |
References:
- "Anthropologists Agree on Traditional Definition of Marriage," CitizenLink.com, 2008-MAR-03, at: http://www.citizenlink.org/
- Devon William, "Marriage on trial before the California Supreme Court," CitizenLink.com, 2008-MAR-03, at: http://www.citizenlink.org/
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