No "pride" month.Washington, D.C.--In the nation's capital, President Bush refused to proclaim June, 2004, as Gay Pride month. The previous year a Department of Justice gay-activist group of employees was informed by Attorney General John Ashcroft they would not be allowed to hold any events. In the past, Gay Pride events had been hosted and paid for by the Department. At a June 18, 2004, meeting of homosexual activists, opponents of the 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. (FMA FMA Full Metal Alchemist (gaming) FMA Federal Marriage Amendment FMA Financial Market Authority (Austrian: Österreichische Finanzmarktaufsicht) FMA Financial Management Association ) revealed a strategy of using permissive clergy to argue that the amendment would interfere with freedom of religion. "Progressive" clergy of some Protestant denominations and reformed synagogues claim the FMA could prevent them from performing ceremonies for blessing same-sex unions and that this constitutes discrimination. The FMA, sponsored by Colorado Republican Senator Wayne Allard, states that marriage in the United States "shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman" and that the Constitution of the United States Constitution of the United States, document embodying the fundamental principles upon which the American republic is conducted. Drawn up at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, the Constitution was signed on Sept. or of any state shall not be construed to allow any other union than that of a man and a woman. Meeting organizers deliberately want to equate the drive to legalize le·gal·ize tr.v. le·gal·ized, le·gal·iz·ing, le·gal·iz·es To make legal or lawful; authorize or sanction by law. le homogamy ho·mog·a·my n. Reproduction within a group that perpetuates qualities or traits that distinguish the group from a larger group of which it is part. Also called inbreeding. with the civil rights movement of the 1960s (Culture and Cosmos, June 22, 2004). |
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