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The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/nyregion/02bruno.html?pagewanted=print

May 2, 2007
Bruno Opposes Bill to Legalize Gay Marriage
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE

ALBANY, May 1 - The Republican majority leader of the State Senate, Joseph L. Bruno, said on Tuesday that he would not support Gov. Eliot Spitzer's proposed legislation to legalize same-sex marriage in New York.

His remarks came as thousands of gay rights supporters marched to the State Capitol to voice their support for the proposal and praise Governor Spitzer, who introduced the bill on Friday even as he conceded that it was unlikely to become law anytime soon. Mr. Bruno has indicated his opposition to the bill in the past; his counterpart in the Assembly, Speaker Sheldon Silver, has taken no position on it.

Asked if gay rights advocates should expect him to support a measure legalizing same-sex marriage, Mr. Bruno said, "I think they ought to discuss that with the governor, since that is a priority of the governor, and not a priority in the Senate."

He added that the Senate Republicans were focused on property tax rebates and instituting the death penalty in New York for killers of law enforcement fficers. Asked if he would support changing the law to allow for same-sex couples to marry, he said, "No, I would not."

At least 61 members of the Assembly and 18 of the Senate have supported same-sex marriage bills in past years, though supporters in the Legislature say they expect more to back the governor's version.



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The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-People-Isaiah-Washington.html?pagewanted=print

May 2, 2007
Washington to Do Ad for Gay Rights Group

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 9:08 p.m. ET

NEW YORK (AP) -- Isaiah Washington, who came under fire after using an anti-gay slur, will appear in a public service announcement on behalf of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network.

''We're gonna have -- I want to say at least two versions of it at this point. We may broaden our message a little,'' the actor's publicist, Howard Bragman, told The Associated Press in a phone interview Wednesday.

Washington ran into trouble at the Golden Globe Awards in January after he used an anti-gay slur during a backstage press conference while denying he'd used it previously against ''Grey's Anatomy'' castmate T.R. Knight.

People magazine reported last October that Washington had allegedly used the slur during an on-set dustup with co-star Patrick Dempsey.

Knight said soon after the incident that he was gay.



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The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-People-Isaiah-Washington.html?pagewanted=print

May 2, 2007
Evangelicals Start Adoption Push

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 4:34 p.m. ET

DENVER (AP) -- Prominent evangelical Christians are urging churchgoers to strongly consider adoption or foster care, not just out of kindness or biblical calling but also to answer criticism that their movement, while condemning abortion and same-sex adoption, doesn't do enough for children without parents.

With backing from Focus on the Family and best-selling author Rick Warren, the effort to promote ''orphan care'' among the nation's estimated 65 million evangelicals could drastically reduce foster care rolls if successful.

Yet sensitive issues lie ahead: about evangelizing, religious attitudes on corporal punishment, gay and lesbian foster children, racially mixed families, and resolving long-standing tensions between religious groups and the government.

Warren and others are scheduled to speak at a summit May 9-11 at Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs that aims to elevate the initiative, which quietly began last fall, onto the national stage.

''In some people's minds, the church has been very pro-life up until the point of birth,'' said Michael Monroe, who co-founded an adoption and foster care ministry at Irving Bible Church outside Dallas. ''I don't know if that's a completely fair observation. But a lot of people are saying it's not enough to be pro-life, we need to be pro-children, as well.''



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The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Oregon-Gay-Rights.html?pagewanted=print

May 2, 2007
Ore. Lawmakers OK Domestic Partnerships
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 11:43 p.m. ET

SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- A bill giving Oregon's gay and lesbian couples the benefits of marriage through domestic partnerships won final legislative approval Wednesday.

The Senate endorsed the measure 21-9, sending it to Gov. Ted Kulongoski. The overnor is a gay-rights supporter who says he will sign that bill along with another one passed earlier to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation.

The domestic partnership bill would enable same-sex couples to enter into ontractual relationships that grant them the same benefits that state law offers to married couples.

The measure won unanimous endorsement from the Senate's majority Democrats, with two Republicans joining them.

When Kulongoski signs the measure, Oregon will join Vermont, Connecticut, alifornia, New Jersey, Maine and Washington state in offering civil unions or domestic partnerships to same-sex couples.



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The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/03/nyregion/03mayor.html?pagewanted=print

May 3, 2007
Boldness That Won Him Wide Attention Costs a Brash Young Mayor His Re-election Bid
By ERIN QUINN

NEW PALTZ, N.Y., May 2 - Jason West first shocked this funky village of 6,000 residents in 2003, when as a 26-year-old house painter, puppeteer and nvironmentalist he was elected mayor after two establishment candidates split the vote. He became the first Green Party member to be a mayor in New York State.

Then, in February 2004, Mr. West stunned his neighbors - and the nation - when he defied state law and performed marriages for 25 same-sex couples in the Village Hall parking lot, a move that helped win him a spot among People magazine's 50 hottest bachelors as well as a book deal.

This eclectic college town about 90 miles north of New York City was thrown off balance again on Wednesday morning, when it awoke to find that the celebrity mayor had been soundly defeated by a former political ally, Terry Dungan. Mr. Dungan, 60, is a retired art teacher, sailboat racer and active Democrat who has been on the village board for two years.

"My husband and I were very disappointed to learn that he had lost," said Jenn Barresi, 35, a nurse and lifelong villager. "We really liked the forward environmental thinking that he brought to our village during the past four years as well as the social change that he was a catalyst for."

While Mr. West quickly became known beyond New Paltz's borders for his stance on gay marriage, his main focus locally was the environment. He made the municipal sewer system more sustainable, put solar panels on top of the public works garage and was working on plans for a biodiesel plant in the village. He also proposed a law to ban chain stores from the village.



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The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/03/nyregion/03mcgreevey.html?pagewanted=print

May 3, 2007
McGreevey Wants to Become a Priest, Report Says
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEWARK, May 2 (AP) - James E. McGreevey, who resigned as New Jersey governor in 2004 after saying that he had had an extramarital affair with a man, has become an Episcopalian and wants to be ordained as a priest in that faith, according to a published report.

The former governor, who was raised as a Roman Catholic, was officially received into the Episcopal faith on Sunday at St. Bartholomew's Church in Manhattan, said the Rev. Kevin D. Bean, the church's vicar.

Mr. McGreevey has entered the church's "discernment" phase, which usually precedes any seminary work, Father Bean told The Star-Ledger of Newark in a report posted Wednesday on its Web site.

Mr. McGreevey declined to comment when reached on Wednesday night.

Bruce Parker, a spokesman for the General Theological Seminary in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, said Mr. McGreevey had been accepted as a student Mr. Parker added that he did not know if the former governor wanted to become a priest.



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The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/03/us/03brfs-oregon.html?pagewanted=print

May 3, 2007
Oregon Same-Sex Benefits Receive Final Legislative Approval
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A bill giving gay couples in Oregon the benefits of marriage through domestic partnerships won final legislative approval. The Senate endorsed the measure 21 to 9, sending it to Gov. Theodore R. Kulongoski. The governor, a Democrat, says he will sign that bill along with another one passed earlier to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation. The domestic partnerships measure covers benefits relating to inheritance rights, child-rearing and custody, joint tax filings, joint health, auto and omeowners insurance policies and visitation rights at hospitals.



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The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/03/us/politics/03giuliani.html?pagewanted=print

May 3, 2007
In G.O.P. Debate Today, Which Tack for Giuliani?
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE

Which Rudolph W. Giuliani will show up tonight in California for the debate among 10 Republican presidential candidates? The hard-hitting prosecutor? Or Mr. Nice Guy?

Mr. Giuliani has played both in his short debate history. Now, with polls showing him as the front-runner of the Republican field, his performance may well be the most-watched tonight. But it has been a decade since Mr. Giuliani last debated as a political candidate, and his two closest challengers, Senator John McCain of Arizona and former Gov. Mitt Romney of assachusetts, have more recent experience.

Mr. McCain has actually been in a presidential debate. That was in the 2000 rimaries against George W. Bush. Mr. McCain, who was reluctant to participate, joined in at the last minute by satellite hookup. It was not a high point for either candidate as they sniped at each other over religion and politics.

Mr. Romney has participated in debates in his races for the Senate in 1994 and for governor in 2002. His 1994 debate, against Senator Edward M. Kennedy, a Democrat, has become a big hit on YouTube.com because it shows him supporting abortion rights and gay rights, which are positions he does not hold now.

Mr. Giuliani's debate history is encapsulated in a relatively brief period, from 1989 to 1997, all when he was running for mayor of New York.



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The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Gay-Governor-Seminary.html?pagewanted=print

May 3, 2007
McGreevey to Enter Episcopal Seminary
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 2:14 a.m. ET

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- The nation's first openly gay governor has become an piscopalian and been accepted into a seminary, according to a published report.

Former Gov. James E. McGreevey, who was raised as a Roman Catholic, was officially received into the Episcopal religion on Sunday at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York, said the Rev. Kevin Bean, vicar at the church.

McGreevey has entered the church's ''discernment'' phase, which usually precedes seminary work, Bean told The Star-Ledger of Newark in a report posted Wednesday on its Web site.

It's unclear whether McGreevey hopes to become a priest. He did not return several messages left Wednesday by The Associated Press.

McGreevey, 49, shocked the nation in August 2004 by proclaiming himself ''a gay American'' who had an extramarital affair with a male aide, and said he would resign that November. The aide denies having an affair and claims he was sexually harassed by the former governor.



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The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Republicans-Debate.html?pagewanted=print

May 3, 2007
Republican Candidates to Debate Tonight
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 10:11 a.m. ET

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) -- The Republicans get their chance tonight. Ten GOP candidates for president will square off in a 90-minute debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif.The debate is being sponsored by MSNBC and The Politico.

''This is batting practice,'' said Rich Galen, a GOP strategist who offered the trio a bit of advice: ''Don't get hurt.''

The three heavyweights are expected to play up their accomplishments and outline their visions for the future.

Lesser-known candidates like Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas and former governors Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin and Jim Gilmore of Virginia are simply looking for respect.



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The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Women-Ivies.html?pagewanted=print

May 3, 2007
Ivy League's Female Presidents Gather
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 6:59 a.m. ET

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- Ruth Simmons says she once wrote the best essay in her literature class only to have one of her Harvard University professors shun her because she was black, or a woman, or both.

More than three decades after that graduate school indignity, Simmons returned to the Harvard campus Wednesday, though much has changed. She is now Brown University's first female president, and represents part of a landmark change going on at the top of the Ivy League.

When Drew Gilpin Faust, the dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, takes over at Harvard on July 1, half of the venerable league's eight schools will be led by women.

Simmons said the four women, including University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann and Princeton President Shirley Tilghman, have carved a path that will grow among the Ivies and beyond.

''When it starts to become the issue of being the last Ivy League school to have a woman president -- who wants to do that?'' Simmons said at a forum sponsored by Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.''This is a league and this is a league based on competition.''



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The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-usa-politics-republicans.html?pagewanted=print

May 3, 2007
Republicans Prepare for Their First 2008 Debate
By REUTERS
Filed at 7:54 a.m. ET

SIMI VALLEY, California (Reuters) - Ten Republican White House contenders, led by early favorites Rudolph Giuliani and John McCain, will crowd the stage on Thursday for their first debate in an already heated 2008 presidential campaign.

A week after the Democratic candidates held their opening debate but more than 18 months before the November 2008 election, the Republicans take their turn in the political spotlight at the presidential library of conservative hero Ronald Reagan outside Los Angeles.

Giuliani, the former mayor of New York who has led Republicans in national polls for months, and McCain, an Arizona senator who was an early favorite but has struggled of late, are well-known political commodities.

But the rest of a largely unknown Republican field will be looking to introduce themselves to primary voters and make a good first impression.

For candidates like former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, whose strong fund-raising and establishment support have put him in the race's top tier even as he lingers in single digits in the polls, the debate offers an early pportunity.



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The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/01/AR2007050101046_pf.html
Man Guilty in Slaying of Gay Ala. Teen

The Associated Press
Tuesday, May 1, 2007; 2:18 PM

BAY MINETTE, Ala. -- One of three defendants accused of killing a teenager because he was gay has pleaded guilty to capital murder, prosecutors said.

As required by state law, jurors will still hear testimony in an abbreviated trial and a judge can sentence Christopher Gaines, 22, to death or life in prison without parole.

Gaines likely will get life in prison because of the plea deal he entered on Monday, prosecutors said.

Authorities have said Gaines and two others attacked Scotty Joe Weaver at his trailer in 2004.

Prosecutors said they beat, strangled and cut the 18-year-old before setting his body afire, and the extent of Weaver's injuries pointed to the attackers' distaste for his sexual orientation.



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washingtonpost.com

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/02/AR2007050201533_pf.html

Evangelicals Start Adoption Push

By ERIC GORSKI
The Associated Press
Wednesday, May 2, 2007; 2:55 PM

DENVER -- Prominent evangelical Christians are urging churchgoers to strongly consider adoption or foster care, not just out of kindness or biblical calling but also to answer criticism that their movement, while condemning abortion and same-sex adoption, doesn't do enough for children without parents.

With backing from Focus on the Family and best-selling author Rick Warren, the effort to promote "orphan care" among the nation's estimated 65 million vangelicals could drastically reduce foster care rolls if successful.Yet sensitive issues lie ahead: about evangelizing, religious attitudes on corporal punishment, gay and lesbian foster children, racially mixed families, and resolving long-standing tensions between religious groups and the government.

Warren and others are scheduled to speak at a summit May 9-11 at Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs that aims to elevate the initiative, which quietly began last fall, onto the national stage.

"In some people's minds, the church has been very pro-life up until the point of birth," said Michael Monroe, who co-founded an adoption and foster care ministry at Irving Bible Church outside Dallas. "I don't know if that's a completely fair observation. But a lot of people are saying it's not enough to be pro-life, we need to be pro-children, as well."



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The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/02/AR2007050201719_pf.html

Ore. Lawmakers OK Domestic Partnerships

By BRAD CAIN
The Associated Press
Wednesday, May 2, 2007; 8:36 PM

SALEM, Ore. -- A bill giving Oregon's gay and lesbian couples the benefits of marriage through domestic partnerships won final legislative approval Wednesday.

The Senate endorsed the measure 21-9, sending it to Gov. Ted Kulongoski. The overnor is a gay-rights supporter who says he will sign that bill along with another one passed earlier to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation.

The domestic partnership bill would enable same-sex couples to enter into ontractual relationships that grant them the same benefits that state law offers to married couples.

The measure won unanimous endorsement from the Senate's majority Democrats, with two Republicans joining them.

When Kulongoski signs the measure, Oregon will join Vermont, Connecticut, alifornia, New Jersey, Maine and Washington state in offering civil unions or domestic partnerships to same-sex couples.



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The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/03/AR2007050300159_pf.html

Republican Candidates to Debate Tonight

The Associated Press
Thursday, May 3, 2007; 10:11 AM

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. -- The Republicans get their chance tonight. Ten GOP candidates for president will square off in a 90-minute debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif.

The debate is being sponsored by MSNBC and The Politico.

"This is batting practice," said Rich Galen, a GOP strategist who offered the trio a bit of advice: "Don't get hurt."

The three heavyweights are expected to play up their accomplishments and outline their visions for the future.

Lesser-known candidates like Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas and former governors Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin and Jim Gilmore of Virginia are simply looking for respect.



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The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/03/AR2007050300467_pf.html

Republicans prepare for their first 2008 debate

By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent
Reuters
Thursday, May 3, 2007; 7:54 AM

SIMI VALLEY, California (Reuters) - Ten Republican White House contenders, led by early favorites Rudolph Giuliani and John McCain, will crowd the stage on Thursday for their first debate in an already heated 2008 presidential campaign.

A week after the Democratic candidates held their opening debate but more than 18 months before the November 2008 election, the Republicans take their turn in the political spotlight at the presidential library of conservative hero Ronald Reagan outside Los Angeles.

Giuliani, the former mayor of New York who has led Republicans in national polls for months, and McCain, an Arizona senator who was an early favorite but has struggled of late, are well-known political commodities.

But the rest of a largely unknown Republican field will be looking to introduce themselves to primary voters and make a good first impression.

For candidates like former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, whose strong fund-raising and establishment support have put him in the race's top tier even as he lingers in single digits in the polls, the debate offers an early pportunity.



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washingtonpost.com

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/03/AR2007050300208_pf.html

Ivy League's Female Presidents Gather

By JESSE HARLAN ALDERMAN
The Associated Press
Thursday, May 3, 2007; 6:58 AM

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Ruth Simmons says she once wrote the best essay in her iterature class only to have one of her Harvard University professors shun her because she was black, or a woman, or both.

More than three decades after that graduate school indignity, Simmons returned to the Harvard campus Wednesday, though much has changed. She is now Brown University's first female president, and represents part of a landmark change going on at the top of the Ivy League.

When Drew Gilpin Faust, the dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, takes over at Harvard on July 1, half of the venerable league's eight schools will be led by women.

Simmons said the four women, including University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann and Princeton President Shirley Tilghman, have carved a path that will grow among the Ivies and beyond.

"When it starts to become the issue of being the last Ivy League school to have a woman president _ who wants to do that?" Simmons said at a forum sponsored by Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. "This is a league and this is a league based on competition."



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The Washington Post

Republican Candidates to Debate Tonight

The Associated Press
Thursday, May 3, 2007; 10:11 AM

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. -- The Republicans get their chance tonight. Ten GOP candidates for president will square off in a 90-minute debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif.

The debate is being sponsored by MSNBC and The Politico.

"This is batting practice," said Rich Galen, a GOP strategist who offered the trio a bit of advice: "Don't get hurt."

The three heavyweights are expected to play up their accomplishments and outline their visions for the future.

Lesser-known candidates like Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas and former governors Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin and Jim Gilmore of Virginia are simply looking for respect.



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365gay.com

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/05/050207evangel.htm

Evangelicals Face Heat Over Gay Adoption Opposition
by The Associated Press
Posted: May 2, 2007 - 7:00 pm ET

(Denver, Colorado) Prominent evangelical Christians are urging churchgoers to strongly consider adoption or foster care, not just out of kindness or biblical calling but also to answer criticism that their movement, while condemning abortion and same-sex adoption, doesn't do enough for children without parents.

With backing from Focus on the Family and best-selling author Rick Warren, the effort to promote "orphan care" among the nation's estimated 65 million vangelicals could drastically reduce foster care rolls if successful.

Yet sensitive issues lie ahead: about evangelizing, religious attitudes on corporal punishment, gay and lesbian foster children, racially mixed families, and resolving long-standing tensions between religious groups and the government.

Warren and others are scheduled to speak at a summit May 9-11 at Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs that aims to elevate the initiative, which quietly began last fall, onto the national stage.



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365gay.com

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/05/050307veto.htm

White House Issues Veto Threat Against Gay Hate Bill
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
Posted: May 3, 2007 - 11:00 am ET

(Washington) Just hours before the House votes on the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act the White House issued a statement saying that if the bill passes the House and Senate and goes to the President, his senior advisors would recommend that he veto it.

A statement from the Executive Office of the President said: "The Administration favors strong criminal penalties for violent crime, including crime based on personal characteristics, such as race, color, religion, or national origin.

"However, the Administration believes that H.R. 1592 is unnecessary and onstitutionally questionable."

The White House statement said that state and local criminal laws already provide penalties for the crimes defined by the bill and "there has been no persuasive demonstration of any need to federalize such a potentially large range of violent crime enforcement."

On the issue of constitutionality the White House statement said terms of the bill could be enforced only "if done in the implementation of a power granted to the Federal government, such as the power to protect Federal personnel, to regulate interstate commerce, or to enforce equal protection of the laws. [The legislation] is not by its terms limited to the exercise of such a power, and it is not at all clear that sufficient factual or legal grounds exist to uphold this provision."

"In some people's minds, the church has been very pro-life up until the point of birth," said Michael Monroe, who co-founded an adoption and foster care ministry at Irving Bible Church outside Dallas. "I don't know if that's a completely fair observation. But a lot of people are saying it's not enough to be pro-life, we need to be pro-children, as well."



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The Sun-Sentinel

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-gay-killing,0,1185905,print.story

Man Guilty in Slaying of Gay Ala. Teen
By Associated Press

May 1, 2007, 2:18 PM EDT

BAY MINETTE, Ala. -- One of three defendants accused of killing a teenager because he was gay has pleaded guilty to capital murder, prosecutors said.

As required by state law, jurors will still hear testimony in an abbreviated trial and a judge can sentence Christopher Gaines, 22, to death or life in prison without parole.

Gaines likely will get life in prison because of the plea deal he entered on Monday, prosecutors said.

Authorities have said Gaines and two others attacked Scotty Joe Weaver at his trailer in 2004.



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The Sun-Sentinel

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-gay-governor-winfrey,0,1779144,print.story

In Memoir, McGreevey's Wife Fires Back
By JANET FRANKSTON LORIN
Associated Press Writer

May 2, 2007, 9:10 AM EDT

SPRINGFIELD, N.J. -- The estranged wife of the nation's first openly gay governor says she felt forced to write her own memoir to tell her side of the story.

Dina Matos McGreevey said she still feels anger toward former New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey, who announced to the world in 2004 that he was "a gay American."

"I don't think he's still acknowledged the damage that he's done to me and to my family and that's very difficult to accept," Matos McGreevey said Wednesday on ABC's "Good Morning America."

Her book, "Silent Partner: A Memoir of My Marriage," was released Tuesday, when she appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and at a book signing at a Barnes and Noble in Springfield, N.J., where she now lives.

"Over the last 2 1/2, almost three years, I've tried to stay in the background and away from the limelight and the media," Matos McGreevey told the crowd of about 100 people, mostly women, at the book signing.


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