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NATIONAL BRIEFS
From staff and wire reports
California lawmaker reintroduces bill to
legalize same-sex marriage
SACRAMENTO — California's newly
sworn Legislature on Monday picked up where
the old one left off, introducing an emotional bill
to legalize gay marriage.
Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco,
reintroduced legislation that would allow gay
couples to marry in the state of California. And
Sen. Carole Migden, D-San Francisco, intro-
duced a bill that would let unmarried, heterosex-
ual couples register as domestic partners.
Leno said he hoped the Republican Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, who vetoed a nearly
identical gay marriage bill in 2005, would
change his position on the new bill. Schwarzen-
egger has said it is up to voters or the courts, not
lawmakers, to settle the contentious issue of gay
marriage. California law does not permit gay
marriage, but gay couples who register as
domestic partners are given most of the same
rights as married couples.
A Superior Court in San Francisco ruled last
year that having separate rules for gay and
straight couples was unconstitutional. But an
appeals court reversed that decision in October,
saying it was up to the Legislature, not the courts,
to decide whether to change the traditional defi-
nition of marriage.
Man former governor describes as his lover
says McGreevey is bisexual, not gay
The man former New Jersey Gov. James E.
McGreevey identified as his gay lover said Nov.
30 he believes McGreevey is not gay.
Appearing on "Larry King Live," Golan
Cipel, an Israeli citizen hired by McGreevey first
as a campaign aide and later as his homeland
security adviser, said that McGreevey's 2004 res-
ignation speech admission that he is "a gay
American" was "part of the spin."
"I think McGreevey had no choice. There was
a sexual harassment lawsuit against bim. And he
didn't know what to do, and his advisers told
him, 'come out first,' and he would be perceived
as the victim" and thereby gain control of the
story," Cipel said. While he said McGreevey did
make sexual advances toward him on several
occasions, Cipel said the former governor also
frequently spoke about heterosexual encounters,
including sex with prostitutes on trips to
Germany and the Dominican Republic.
"I believe that Jim McGreevey is bisexual,"
Cipel said.
Episcopal Church leadership responds to
California diocese's move to separate
FRESNO, Calif. — Members of a conserva-
tive Episcopal diocese who voted to distance
themselves from the faith's national denomina-
tion received a letter Monday from church lead-
ers lamenting their decision.
The Fresno-based Diocese of San Joaquin
voted Dec. 2 to affirm its membership in the
worldwide Anglican Communion, in what dio-
cese leaders called a first step toward a formal
break with the national church over the ordina-
tion of gays and women. The Episcopal Church
is the U.S. wing of the 77 million-member
Anglican family.
"I lament the actions of the Bishop and
Convention of the Diocese of San Joaquin to
repudiate their membership in the Episcopal
Church," Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts
Schori said in a prepared statement Monday
"Our task as the Episcopal Church is God's
mission of reconciling the world, and actions
such as this distract and detract from that mis-
sion," she said.
While San Joaquin Bishop John-David
Schofield has said he remains open to proposals
that would allow the diocese "theological respect
and freedom," the diocese had no official
response to the letter, the Rev. Canon Bill
Gandenberger said.
The resolution approved by a majority of cler-
gy and lay delegates last weekend won't become
final unless it receives a two-thirds majority vote
at a diocesan convention next year.
Vermont gay newspaper closes
doors after 21 years
BURLINGTON, Vt. — Out in the Mountains,
the state's only gay newspaper, has ceased publi-
cation after 21 years. The board of directors of
the monthly paper, which served a LGBT audi-
ence, decided last month that the publication was
no longer financially viable. The last edition was
published last week. The paper has faced compe-
tition from the Internet and other newspapers.
"Part of the success of Out in the Mountains
over the last 21 years has been a voice for the
community. But today there are other newspa-
pers that are willing to cover our community and
stories about our community that they would
never have covered 10 years ago," the board
president, Brian Cote, said.
Times have changed since the state passed the
first civil union law in the country, he said.
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