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• New York court backs gay marriage | A New York court has ruled in favor of gay marriages saying that failure to do so would breach the equal rights laws written into the state's constitution (BBC, video)
  
  
• Mayor cleared of gay-marriage charges | A judge Thursday dismissed criminal charges against a small-town mayor for marrying gay couples, saying the state failed to show it has a legitimate interest in banning same-sex weddings (Associated Press)
  
  
• No charges for mayor over gay marriages | New Paltz official performed 25 gay marriages in February, contrary to NY's domestic relations law (Newsday)
  
  
• New Paltz news | Real criminals love it when our prosecutors get distracted with "crimes" of the heart (Editorial, The Journal News, White Plains, N.Y.)
  
  
• N.Y. judge bars mayor from marrying gays | A mayor who performed rapid-fire marriages for 25 gay couples was barred Monday from marrying same-sex couples, after a New York judge ruled that it was up to the Legislature or the courts to decide the issue (Associated Press)
  
  

Homosexuals in Canada:

• Just 1% of Canadians say they're homosexual | Are there 320,000 gay people in the country? Or is it at least 1.6 million, or perhaps closer to 3.2 million? (The Globe and Mail, Toronto)
  
  
• Gay activists dispute Statscan survey | For the first time in its history, Statistics Canada has released a survey on the sexual orientation of Canadians, but some members of the gay community contend that the numbers are dramatically lower than the truth (Canadian Press)
  
  
• Gays, lesbians and the numbers game | The absence of political clout should not deprive gays and lesbians of defenders where it counts most -- among the lawmakers in Parliament (Editorial, The Globe and Mail, Toronto)
  
  

AIDS:

• Answering the call in the global fight against AIDS | Awareness leads to action for an evangelical church in Paramount, which has adopted an African village hit hard by the disease (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Silence on AIDS shames black church | The black church stands as the cornerstone of the African-American community, but there is one pressing social issue it has turned a tin ear to—AIDS (Rick Badie, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• U.S. right squeezes lifesaving aid to Africans | In Ghana, the trickle-down effect of the gag rule has been widespread. And because Ghanaians — Christian and Muslim — are a religious people, the effect has been to undermine many programs that conservatives could support (Barbara Crossette, Los Angeles Times)
  
  

Sudan:

• White House reconsiders its policy on crisis in Sudan | Bush officials say they are considering whether what is happening in Darfur amounts to genocide (The New York Times)
  
  
• Dare we call it genocide? | If the mass murder and rape in the Darfur region of Sudan isn't genocide, then that word has no meaning (Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times)
  
  

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