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• Acceptance of gay marriage growing in state | Half of voters still against it—but even more oppose constitutional ban (San Francisco Chronicle)
  
  
• Winter of love | Cautious Democrats worry that San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's historic affirmation of gay marriage will help Bush win reelection. But as the right squabbles over the issue, his party may well thank him in November (Joan Walsh, Salon.com)
  
  
• Prudent path | How we decide the question of gay marriage — and it will be decided, one way or the other — will shape the future of our society and the course of constitutional government in the United States (Matthew Spalding, The Washington Times)
  
  
• Suit targets a county clerk, citing need to avoid chaos | Conservative legal firms yesterday filed a lawsuit in California Supreme Court seeking to stop San Francisco's county clerk from issuing any more "marriage" licenses to same-sex couples (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Gay marriage legislation splits crowd in Annapolis | Testimony in House committee reveals division on proposals (The Washington Post)
  
  
• In Africa, homophobia goes beyond church | Obarou Adjarhu carries a Bible under one arm, and he knows what it says. It says homosexuality is a sin, according to Adjarhu's reading. Today. Tomorrow. And as far as the 32-year-old Nigerian businessman is concerned, forever. (Elizabeth Bryant, UPI)
  
  
• From two couples, a couple of views | For one couple in Parker, marriage is holy only if it unites a man and a woman. For a couple in Denver, marriage is as sacred as the people in it - regardless of their gender (The Denver Post)
  
  
• Conservatives take aim at gay rights legislation | Mark Burton sees same-sex marriage licenses issued in Sandoval County last week as a potent blessing in disguise (Albequerque Tribune)
  
  

Federal Marriage Amendment:

• Gay-marriage amendment unlikely to pass this year | Many say GOP moderates shying away from it (USA Today)
  
  
• GOPers: Nup ban a no-go | Say votes for W plan aren't there (New York Daily News)
  
  
• Amendment is wrong way to resolve social controversy | A constitutional amendment is the wrong way to address an issue where a national consensus is lacking and states still are grappling with the issue in their own ways (USA Today)
  
  
• Bush's war over gay marriage | The president finally caves to the Christian right and backs a constitutional amendment, the better to beat up John Kerry. But will his newly emboldened right-wing allies go too far? (Salon.com)
  
  
• President versus precedent | Bush's reckless bid for an amendment defies an Oval Office tradition (Cass R. Sunstein, Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Gay conservatives fight Bush on wedding vow | A key GOP group plans a campaign against the proposed constitutional amendment in several states crucial to the president's reelection (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Debating marriage | It will take time, talk and a lot of testing of theories to resolve the country's ambivalence about how unions between gay couples are recognized. President Bush's vote-happy call for a constitutional amendment has little to contribute to the discussion (Editorial, Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
  
  
• The politics of gay marriage | With the Kerry-Edwards battle for the Democratic nomination drawing headlines and motivating anti-Bush voters, President Bush's announcement that he favors a constitutional ban on gay marriage makes political if not numerical or moral sense (Editorial, Los Angeles Times)
  
  

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February (Web-only) 2004, Vol. 48