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17.1999 18 Corner of Sandy Blvd. & NE 64th 3106 NE 64th Portland, OR 97213 registered voters are required to get the initia n Orange County school board unani tive on the ballot. The brothers are aiming for a mously rejected a gay student’s proposal to million to be sure they have enough valid signa tures. form a Gay-Straight Alliance at El Modena High School. The Orange Unified School District board Boy Scouts troop that was to have been nixed the idea sponsored by the United Church of Christ with a 7-0 vote in Petaluma has been rejected by the Boy on Dec. 7. Scouts’ Redwood Empire Council. “This club Lynda Hyland Burris, church pastor, believes has a name and the troop was rejected because the proposed a purpose that is scoutmaster supports an end to the organiza unacceptable,” tion’s ban on gay scouts. said board mem According ber Kathy Ward, to media reading from a reports, the resolution turning down the plan. According to The Associated Press, an esti proposed troop leader is Scott mated 300 people turned out for the meeting. vice During the meeting someone reportedly shoved Cozza, of the student who proposed the club, 15-year-old president Scouting for Anthony Colin. “That happens at a board meeting, and they All, a group don’t think we need a club about tolerance? Get that advocates acceptance of real,” Colin said after the vote. “We expected gays in scout the worst and that’s what we got.” Colin and student Heather Zetin filed a law ing. suit in November after the board put off making The proposed troop, which already had *a decision for a second time. Board members seven boys signed up, had hoped to include boys eventually decided to vote on the issue. from a nearby homeless shelter. 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A group calling itself Californians for Same- COLORADO Sex Marriage has begun a petition drive y a unanimous vote, the Denver City with the hope of collecting a million signatures Council approved a registry for committed to place an initiative to legalize same-sex mar unmarried couples, both gay and straight. riages on the November 2000 ballot. According to a Nov. 30 Denver Post report, The group was started by Tom Henning of Denver is the second city in Colorado to offer a San Francisco and his brother John, who lives in registry for domestic partners. (Boulder is the Los Angeles. The Hennings say they expect other city.) most of their support to come from hetero To qualify, both members of a couple sexuals and churches, according to a Nov. must be unmarried and at least 18 years 26 Reuters story. old. They must share the same house “We believe young heterosexuals hold and cannot be blood relatives. Cou under 35 will be the key to our suc ples must notify the clerk’s office if cess,” Tom Henning said. “We have the partnership ends. seen very good signs from that group. Denver residents will Their attitude seems to be, ‘Love is love, now be able to why not?’” certify their He added: “We think we can get the support relationships in of churches because this is a humanitarian order to qualify for appeal. We are not asking that gays and lesbians domestic partner benefits should be entitled to be married in church, only offered by some businesses and gov that their civil marriages be recognized by the ernment entities. state, so that they can receive the same benefits In addition to benefiting same-sex couples, as heterosexual couples.” the registry will also serve couples who choose The initiative seeks to amend the state con not to marry because they would lose Social stitution. An estimated 670,000 signatures of Security or other benefits. 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