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Com panion Pet Clinics 8am • 6pm S a t 8am • 5pm M -Fm W est L inn Sun 11 am-4pm A merican S o M UCH H A PPEN ED PORTLAND • Formation & Dissolution T he gay SAN FRANCISCO • Domestic Partnerships mirror he U.S. Supreme Court ;xlded a fit ting capstone to a month of Gay Pride celebrations June 26 when it stmek down sodomy laws that remained on the hxrks in 1 3 states. Perhaps the most satisfying portion of Lawrence vs. Texas was its blunt and complete rejection of the 1986 court deci sion that had allowed states to regulate sodomy. “Bowers was not correct when it was decided, and it is not correct today. It by B o b R o ehr ought not to remain binding precedent. Bowers vs. Hardwick should he and now is over ruled," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority. “The petitioners are entitled to respect for their private lives. The state cannot demean their existence or control their des tiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime.” U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., generated a firestorm of controversy in April with homo phobic remarks. Anticipating the possibility of the Supreme Court striking down sodomy laws, he said: “You (then) have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything.” R uth Harlow of Lambda Legal and Paul Sm ith, the attorney The sixlomy provision of who argued the Lawrence case, outside the U .S. Supreme Article 125 of the Universal C o u rt after oral argum ents Code of Military Justice is per “The Massachusetts Constitution affirms the haps the last standing sodomy law in the U n it dignity and equality of all individuals, lt forbids ed States, and an underpinning of the anti-gay the creation of second-class citizens.. .the [state] military policy known as “don’t ask, don’t tell." has failed to identify any constitutionally ade In a case filed July 7 in the U.S. Court of quate reason for denying civil marriage to same- Federal Claims, Lt. Colonel Loren Stephen sex couples," wrote Chief Justice Margaret 11. Loomis used the Lawrence decision to appeal Marshall in the majority decision. his discharge from the military. That decision is Reviewing state marriage law and implemen expected in early 2004, though the case may he tation, the court summarized, “In short, for all decided on nonconstitutional grounds. the joy and solemnity that normally attend a marriage (the law] governing entrance to mar riage is a licensing law." Rather than throw out the marriage law as unconstitutional, it remand ed the case to the trial court and delayed its implementation for 180 days “to permit the Legislature to take such action as it may deem appropriate in light of this opinion.” Social conservatives had proposed the Federal Marriage Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as far hack as July 2001 as the only way ultimately to ban gay marriage, defining marriage specifically as “the union of a man and a woman." lt was Michael Stark (left) and Michael Leshner, introduced in the House in May 2002 bin not in the Senate until Nov. 25 of this year. the first same-sex couple to he legally “This amendment has very little to do with married in Canada . marriage as such, and everything to do with homosexuality,” opined gay conservative pundit n Canada, the O ntario Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling June 10 to legally Andrew Sullivan, writing in The New Refyuhlic Online. “If the social right wanted to shore up allow same-sex marriages, saying, “The existing marriage, they could propose an amendment common law definition of marriage violates the tightening up divorce laws...hut they haven’t.” couple’s equality rights on the basis of sexual Former U.S. Rep. Boh Barr, R-Ga., chief orientation." British Columbia became the second province to legalize same-sex marriage a author of 1996’s anti-gay Defense of Marriage month later, and Prime Minister Jean C hretien Act, opposes the am endm ent and has said, “I think that the states ought to he able to make said that his government would introduce simi that decision themselves |on gay marriage or lar national legislation in early 2004. civil unions], as long as they do it properly." All parties were anxious tor the other shoe to drop in the form of a ruling on same-sex marriage Major Democratic candidates for president have performed their own waffling act. They hy the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Gnirt. strongly denounce discrimination against gays That body has a tradition of rapidly issuing its hut just as quickly dismiss the court’s remedy opinions and most expected the decision hy early for that discrimination and, like President summer, hut the wait stretched out to Nov. 18. 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