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• Churches lobby on gay unions | Churches across the country were encouraged by national evangelical Christian groups to rally their members to pray and speak up to their U.S. senators, who are scheduled to vote Thursday on the Federal Marriage Amendment (The Denver Post)
• "Activist judges" difficult to define | As the debate on a gay-marriage ban heats up, legal experts say the term is, at best, imprecise and, at worst, used by people who simply disagree with a ruling (The Denver Post)
• Saying 'I do' to marriage | In the face of this challenge, it's not only reasonable but obligatory that marriage be preferred and defended in the law — and protected in the Constitution (Edwin Meese III/Matthew Spalding, The Washington Times)

Bush & same-sex marriage:

• Bush leads support against gay marriage | President Bush says legalizing gay marriage would redefine the most fundamental institution of civilization and that a constitutional amendment is needed to protect it (Associated Press)
• Urged by right, Bush takes on gay marriages | President Bush is escalating his support for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, underscoring a critical difference between himself and Senator John Kerry (The New York Times)
• Initiatives to ban gay marriage could help Bush in key states | Strategists hope ballot measures in electoral battlegrounds will boost conservative turnout (Los Angeles Times)
• Bush urges passage of gay marriage ban | President Bush urged Congress yesterday to pass a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, saying the legislation under debate this week in the Senate is the only way to stop judges in states such as Massachusetts from trying to ''change the meaning of marriage" (The Boston Globe)
• Initiatives to ban gay marriage could help Bush in key states | Strategists hope ballot measures in electoral battlegrounds will boost conservative turnout (Los Angeles Times)
• Bush pushes for ban on gay marriage | Vote on constitutional amendment could come this week (The Washington Post)
• Bush mocks Kerry VP pick, chides Democratic duo on values | President made a point of limiting his criticism to gay marriage, not homosexuality itself (The Boston Globe)
• Bush ads rip Kerry stands on abortion, gay 'marriage' | President Bush, who has not made a major issue of abortion during his first term, is aggressively using the issue against Sen. John Kerry, who supports abortion rights despite his assertion that life begins at conception (The Washington Times)

Kerry & same-sex marriage:

• Kerry heads off platform squabble | Platform opposes the Federal Marriage Amendment, but delegates agree to forgo amendment on a broader call for same-sex unions (The Washington Times)
• As liberals' champion, Kerry not the real deal | Real-life liberals have watched their supposedly liberal standard-bearer come out against gay marriage, declare that life begins at conception, join Bush in endorsing Israel's refusal even to negotiate over a Palestinian right of return, and slash back his promises on college aid and national service (Peter S. Canellos, The Boston Globe)

Same-sex marriage and divorce:

• Ore. court orders gay marriages recorded | Oregon became the second state to register same-sex marriage licenses Friday after a state appeals court upheld a lower court order directing officials to record more than 3,000 marriage licenses issued to gay couples in Multnomah County (Associated Press)
• Compassion trumps bureaucracy | Gay couples are bound to savor the day, even though the decision is not final (Editorial, The Oregonian)

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July (Web-only) 2004, Vol. 48