A Big Gay Thanks but No Thanks

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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."

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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...

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