It's all in the timing.I really enjoy reading your magazine; however, your January January: see month. 18 issue has an error. The time line ["Big Gay Year"] features a lesbian couple getting married March 8 in Asbury Park Asbury Park, city (1990 pop. 16,799), Monmouth co., E N.J. An Atlantic resort noted for its beach, boardwalk, and convention hall, it has declined since the 1960s. The burning liner Morro Castle grounded off the beach here in Sept. , N.J. There is only one gay couple who were and are married in Asbury Park and the entire state of New Jersey. They are Ric Best and Louis Navarrete, married March 8. Ed Johnson, Asbury Park, N.J. [Editor's note Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : Donna Harrison and Kathy Ragauckas were applying for a marriage license at City Hall in Asbury Park on March 9 in our photo. The Advocate regrets the error.] The July 14 entry in your time line read, "AS expected, the antigay Federal Marriage Amendment The Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA) (also known as the Marriage Protection Amendment) is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution which would define marriage in the United States as a union of one man and one woman. fails on a procedural vote in the U.S. Senate, providing what is widely considered to be an embarrassing defeat for President Bush and Republican leaders in Congress." I could not disagree more. I don't think the introduction of the bill was ever about its actual passage. I think it was all politics. Every one of the 50 senators who voted against the measure will face a campaign commercial from their opponents in the next primary or general election. Getting to label these politicians as antifamily or antivalues is what the bill was really about. A. Sheppard, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , N.Y. |
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