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LOCAL
Gay Democratic and
Republican clubs say
the Nov. 2 elections
redefined their agen-
das. PAGE 6
NATIONAL
One year after the
ruling in Massachu-
setts, gays are losing
the battle for mar-
riage. PAGE 23.
NOVEMBER I 19 I 2004
THE PREMIER SOURCE FOR GLBT DALLAS/FORT WORTH
Texas Gov. Rick Perry said an amendment ban effectively banning
same-sex marriage in the state is an issue for legislators.
Governor mum on constitutional amendment
He won’t say whether he favors constitutionally outlawing same-sex
marriage; gay leaders hope Perry’s silence signals greater tolerance
By David Webb Staff Writer
Texas Gov. Rick Perry this week side-
stepped a question about whether he would
support a conservative lawmaker’s efforts to
place a constitutional amendment banning
same-sex marriage on the 2005 state ballot.
At a press conference after a luncheon
speech before the Greater Dallas Chamber of
Commerce, Perry walked away from the
podium when he was asked about the pro-
posed state amendment. Although he had
agreed to accept one more question, Peny
headed for the back door of the meeting room
when he heard the nature of the inquiry.
As he walked to the door Perry said, “The
Defense of Marriage Act was passed, and 1
signed it into law in the state of Texas last leg-
islative session.”
Perry, who came to Dallas to gather sup-
port for his school reform plan, added that as
governor he would not be required to veto or
approve a constitutional amendment.
“That’s a better question for the members
of the Texas Legislature,” said Perry, whose
press office has repeatedly ignored requests
by Dallas Voice for interviews with the gov-
ernor over the past three years. Before the
U.S. Supreme Court shuck down the state’s
sodomy law, the governor told reporters that
he considered the law “appropriate.”
At this week’s press conference, Perry con-
tinued to respond to specific questions about
the proposed amendment by referring to the
Defense of Marriage Act.
“We have a law that addresses that directly
in the state of Texas,” Perry said. “It clearly
lays out that marriage in Texas is between a
man and a woman.”
The Defense of Marriage Act was passed
Carla Halbrook, left, a director of Log Cabin
Republicans in Washington, said she was surprised
that Gov. Rick Perry apparently has not formulated a
position on a Texas constitutional amendment ban-
ning gay marriage. But Randall Ellis, right, executive
director of Lesbian Gay Rights Lobby of Texas, cau-
tioned, “I don’t expect him to turn into a huge ally
overnight."
by state lawmakers last year and was prompt-
ly signed by Perry.
When he was asked about President Bush’s
surprise expression, a week before Election
Day, in favor of civil unions if a state chose to
See PERRY on PAGE 14
Lawyer cites Utah’s Amendment 3
in lawsuit involving protective order
Measure adds same-sex marriage ban to state constitution, but lawyers
are exploring ways to use it in cases involving opposite-sex couples
Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY — An attorney has cited
Utah’s new amendment restricting marriage to
heterosexual couples in arguing against enforce-
ment of a court protective order.
Amendment 3 will take effect on Jan. 1, 2004.
But lawyers are exploring ways to employ its
prohibition of legal recognition for any domestic
union that is substantially equivalent to a mar-
riage.
Salt Lake attorney Mary Corporon recently
filed a motion contending that Amendment 3
makes it unconstitutional to enforce a court pro-
tective order against her client that his former
live-in girlfriend got from a judge.
Corporon’s client was charged with violating
the order that was to keep him away from the
girlfriend and the apartment they formerly
shared.
“If you have two people who occupy the same
space together, a man and a woman in a roman-
tic relationship, and the court steps in and says,
‘One of you gets to occupy the space you have
and the other doesn’t,’ that begins to look like a
marriage breaking up and the temporary protec-
tive orders issued in divorces,” Corporon said.
Attorney Monte Stewart, co-chairman of
Utahns for a Better Tomorrow, which supported
the amendment, said such arguments ultimately
will fail.
“Lawyers representing clients, especially in
criminal cases, are obligated to throw up just
about everything and anything they can think
of,” Stewart said. “That’s just the nature of the
system.
“As they throw these arguments up, one by
one, they will be rejected.”
The former top jurist for Utah was not sur-
prised. But former Utah Supreme Court Chief
Justice Michael Zimmerman said it is no surprise
See AMENDMENT on PAGE 25
Unfazed
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Margaret
Marshall became a target for conservatives angry at activist judges
BOSTON — In the year since the
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued
its landmark ruling legalizing same-sex mar-
riages, its critics have been fond of lambasting
it as the work of “activist judges” who circum-
vented the law to pursue a liberal social agen-
da.
The fallout was especially pronounced in the
presidential election that pitted a Massachusetts
senator against a Republican president who,
fresh from his victory for a second term, has
vowed to push through a federal constitutional
amendment that would have the effect of ban-
ning gay marriage.
The Nov. 18, 2003, ruling changed countless
lives of gay and lesbian couples and played a
prominent role in this year’s elections — yet
the author of the landmark decision is unfazed.
“1 think you simply do the best that you can,
you decide the case and you move onto the next
case,” Chief Justice Margaret Marshall told
The Associated
Press on
Monday, three
days before the
first anniver-
sary of the his-
toric decision.
Marshall
would not
comment
directly on the
high court’s
controversial
ruling in what
is formally known as Goodridge v. Department
of Public Health, the lawsuit filed by seven gay
couples who wanted the right to marry. Two of
the couples are Connecticut residents.
But she, perhaps more than her six fellow
justices, became a symbol of what conserva-
See MARSHALL on PAGE 24
By Denise Lavoie Associated Press
Massachusetts Chief Justice
Margaret Marshall
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