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I take no comfort in the Wisconsin Legislative Council's opinion that the registry probably can withstand legal challenges like the one filed a couple of weeks ago. The opinion just affirms the registry's weakness.
Prominent in the fight against the ban was Madi- son-based Fair Wisconsin. The group's largely posi- tive campaign was over- whelmed by the briskly efficient, scorched-earth tactics of the amendment's well-funded supporters.At an anti-gay-marriage event 1 covered in 2006, the Wisconsin Family Council's Julaine Appling raised the ugly specter of pedophilia, and statements on her group's website still associate homosexuality with child sexual abuse. When I interviewed Stoughton evangelical pastor Ron Dobie for that same 2006 article, he told me that if gay marriage is allowed, "We don't have any basis to say.. .bestiality is wrong."See the full content of this document
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A Big Gay Thanks but No Thanks
In Wisconsin, same-sex couples began registering as domestic partners on Aug. 3. I wish them all happiness.
But my boyfriend of nine years and I won't be joining them.The new state p...See the full content of this document
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