[Seattle-editorial] Article: An Aisle Seat - Same SexPartnerships and America

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Go for it.  Who is going to put it up? Kristen, at some point we should meet face to fact to show how to propose feature proposals -- or maybe you can figure it out via reading past emails. For now someone else can do those details.  I can't -- too much carpel tunnel right now -- I have to sign off and do other work. Gawd, I feel like I'm gagged!

Best, Judy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gentry Lange [mailto:g at art13.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 04:44 PM
> To: 'nathaniel t', sheelanagig at juno.com, seattle-editorial at indymedia.org
> Subject: RE: [Seattle-editorial] Article: An Aisle Seat - Same SexPartnerships	and America
> 
> I agree. 1st paragraph with a link would get my approval. And it's great to
> have a new writer!
> 
> Gentry
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:seattle-editorial-bounces at lists.indymedia.org]On Behalf Of
> nathaniel t
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> SexPartnerships and America
> 
> 
> 
> I think the first paragraph of this article, linked to the full text on the
> newswire, would make a perfectly good feature as-is.  My two cents.
> 
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: sheelanagig at juno.com
> To: seattle-editorial at indymedia.org, sheelanagig at Juno.com
> Subject: [Seattle-editorial] Article: An Aisle Seat - Same Sex Partnerships
> and America
> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 07:19:25 -0700
> 
> A localized version of this article is in the Oct 2003 issue of The
> Manifesto News, (www.manifestonews.org), out of Monterey/Santa Cruz, Ca.,
> but it is a relevant issue to Seattle, with our large out gay community,
> and also with Vancouver right over the border, letting gay couples get
> legally married, whic America is battling now! So what I need to know is
> should I just be submitting these articles to the freewire post, or it a
> good idea to float some of these by you for features? Should I be posting
> them to freewire AND sending them to this list? It is still all fuzzy to
> me how it works...Again, I have put this into html form. If it best I do
> *not* do that, tell me that too.
> 
> kirsten
> 
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> 
> <P>An Aisle Seat—Same-Sex Partnerships and America
> <BR>By Kirsten Anderberg Copyright 2003
> 
> <P>What are the differences between registered same-sex domestic
> partnerships, and legally married couples, in California? The major areas
> of inequity, and concern, to same-sex partners include those of child
> custody and child/spousal support, rights to make funeral arrangements,
> community property rights, mutual responsibility for debts. And those
> civil rights will finally be accessible to registered same-sex domestic
> partners now that Measure AB 205 (Goldberg, Los Angeles) passed in the
> California legislature (<a
> href="http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/bilinfo.html">www.leginfo.ca.gov/bilinfo.
> html</A>).
> 
> <P>Measure AB 205, the Domestic Partnership Rights and Responsibilities
> Act of 2003, was first proposed by Equality California, (<a
> href="http://www.eqca.org"www.eqca.org</A>), a grassroots organization
> with offices in Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Equality
> California says that one in every six same-sex couples reside in
> California, and promoted this as an issue of importance to the populace
> and legislature of California. But this legislation will also be a
> landmark regarding equal rights for same-sex couples in the US. The
> Massachusetts Supreme Court is also handing down a decision on Same Sex
> Marriage very shortly. This is quickly spreading to become a national
> issue, and California is leading the way. Since the inception of the
> same-sex and senior opposite-sex couples registry in California three
> years ago, 20,000 couples have registered. AB 205 will give that registry
> some backbone. Unfortunately, these changes will only affect California
> state benefits. Federal benefits for same-sex partners are still not
> recognized.
> 
> <P>At the heart of this "marriage rights versus same-sex domestic
> partnership rights" controversy, is whether same-sex couples want
> religious or civil confirmation of their partnerships. Many argue that
> marriage is a religious sacrament and that gay marriages cannot have
> religious context. Others argue same-sex partners aren’t seeking
> religious confirmation of their partnership, but rather the same civil
> rights, the same legal rights, as married couples.
> 
> <P>Marriage Equality California (MECA), (<a
> href="http://www.marriageequalityca.org">www.marriageequalityca.org</A>),
> has joined the organizations at the forefront of activism, to push for
> fairness and equality regarding same-sex partnerships in California.
> Santa Cruz and Monterey both launched chapters of MECA in August.
> According to Owen Wolf, co-chair of Santa Cruz MECA
> (santacruz at marriageequalityca.org), their goal is to converse one on one,
> and explain the harm that the "lack of a legally recognized contract
> between two adults of the same sex who wish to form a long lasting,
> loving relationship does to same sex couples and their families." This is
> a growing national issue, and one that we will see challenging America's
> "family values" and entrenched homophobia. As a matter of fact, a gay
> couple, who are recognized as married in Canada, were just denied entry
> into the United States, in September 2003, because they filled out their
> forms for entry into the United States as a "family." We are going to
> hear more and more about this issue, as people have outgrown the archaic
> laws in this area.
> 
> 
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