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' -Æ S h ea Steel I )avvme G rub stem Realtor larari of lìcer s h east e e I (" rem ax.net á0.v282-4tim> Kxt I 12 <Javvnic(° rosee i U n i t e V , corn » .‘>0.>-76M—f248 Kxt I0<i Rose I I ;« « « « ' n an interview March 24 with Fox News host Neil Cavuto, the U .S. House of Representa tive’s top Democrat said she believes same-sex couples should have the right to marry. House Dem ocratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of C alifornia said that she was focused on defeating the Federal Marriage Amendment IrAl \ iQK] and that she wt ruld not BO pP® ] allow Republicans to distract her efforts by . . _ . . c I _ Nancy Pelosi forcing false arguments 1 on civil marriage. “The most powerful Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives has just come out for full marriage equality,” said Dave Noble, National Stonewall Democrats executive director. “In con trast, the most powerful Republican, Tom DeLay, is attempting to use to use the issue of marriage to tear Americans apart. The difference in leadership, and between our two parties, is strikingly clear.” Pelosi was asked if she supported the rights of same-sex couples to marry. “Yes,” she replied. “And I don’t think that they should be discriminated in the Constitution and my goal is to defeat that res olution, and I’m not going to be sidetracked.” Pelosi added that she supports the granting of same-sex marriage licenses by the city of San Francisco. She said she will “use my leadership to defeat a desecration o f the Constitution that the president is putting there to diminish free dom in our country.” “W e are very happy with Congresswoman Pelosi’s endorsement o f full equality,” said Molly McKay, Marriage Equality California executive director. “W e are heartened to see our straight allies step forward on our behalf and support the fundamental right for all U .S. citizens to marry.” Call now and well give you $100 off of your closing costs, and we will also donate $100 to one of ten charities sponsored by Rose City Mortgage. % NATIONAL he College Republican National C om m it tee unleashed a vicious attack against Log C abin Republicans last month. Chairman Eric Hoplin targeted the gay G O P group’s recent criticism of President Bush’s pro posed Federal Marriage Amendment— or, in his words, “their efforts to stab the president in the back.” He claimed Log C abin seeks “to advance a single-issue agenda.” “O nce again, the current administration has decided to divide rather than unite us as promised,” said Stephanie Sanchez, College Democrats of America executive director. “It’s a shame but probably not a surprise that the C o l lege Republicans have chosen to identify with the most reactionary and least tolerant forces within the Republican Party.” T o> i= .E g E £ cs cs 3 ^ 2 ? re a g ¡ o S * a < o re a X =J CD 3 X è X Z 5 W T Ï CO ¡N ¿ 5 ° r g « .2 = o u f £ S ^ m s the U .S. military continues to wage war in Iraq and Afghanistan, discharges of gay and lesbian personnel plummeted 17 percent in fiscal year 2003, according to a new report from Servicemembers Legal Defense Network. Conduct Unbecoming, an annual review of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” finds that gay-related dis charges fell to 787 last year, down from 906 in 2002. T h e 2003 figures mark a 39 percent decrease in discharges since 2001, the year before conflicts in the Middle East began. T he number also represents the fewest gay discharges since 1995. “Gay discharge numbers have dropped every time America has entered a war, from Korea to Vietnam to the Persian G ulf to present con flicts,” the report says. It goes on to note that “more o f our allies have dropped their bans, and our Am erican troops are fighting alongside openly lesbian, gay and bisexual allied personnel in the war on terrorism.” T h e experiences o f those allied nations, the report finds, are one part of a growing move ment recognizing the detrimental impact of the military’s gay ban. “This irrational policy of exclusion has cost our nation, and our security, almost 10,000 dedicated and trained Americans over the past 10 years. T h a t’s more than two full brigades. It is also one-third of the 30,000 new recruits that the Army now says it needs to fight the war on terrorism.” T h e cost of training those discharged under the han, the report finds, is between $250 mil lion and $1.2 billion. “T h e cost of shrinking the pool of talent for our nation’s armed forces is immeasurable.” A he House o f Representatives approved March 30 by vote of 343-81 legislation that would strengthen the ability o f military recruiters to violate university nondiscrimina tion policies. T h e measure, known as the R O T C and Military Recruiter Equal Access to Campus A ct o f 2004, was introduced M arch 12 by U .S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-A la. T ice President Dick Cheney, who for weeks has insisted that his daughters’ private lives are nobody’s busi ness and have nothing to do with the presiden tial campaign, is now championing the private life of his heterosexual daughter on his official campaign Web site. T he Bush- Cheney '04 Web site advertised a public online chat March 17 with Liz Vice President Dick Cheney is charilpioning the private life of his daughter Cheney, described Liz (center, with sister Mary and mother Lynne) V O) 5? cs 3 by the site as a “Bush-Cheney surrogate” who is “the daughter of Vice President Cheney" and “mar ried and the proud mother of three daughters.” Last month Cheney was adamant that any dis cussion of his daughters was off-limits in the polit ical arena. “I really have always considered...my daughters’ lives private, and I think that’s the way it ought to remain,” he said March 2 when asked by M SN BC how he could support an anti-gay amendment to the U .S. Constitution when his own daughter Mary- is openly gay. John Aravosis, creator o f DearMary.com and national co-chairm an o f D ontA m end.com , accused the veep of hypocrisy. “Mr. Cheney is all to happy to use his daughters’ private lives as campaign fodder when it suits him, but now that he’s caught betraying one of his daughters for votes, suddenly he doesn’t want to talk about them anymore.”
