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Gay-rights supporters have big plans for GOP convention
April 19, 2004
NEW YORK -- President Bush's efforts to ban gay marriage are driving gay rights activists to plan protests and other attention-grabbing events in New York City this summer during the Republican convention.
Protesters opposed to the war in Iraq and other Bush administration policies have long focused on the four-day convention that starts Aug. 30 and is expected to draw 15,000 journalists. Gay rights groups, however, are just now eying the convention
s an ideal forum to stage protests.
''This is an issue that has really swept the country from coast to coast and is dominating public discussion about civil rights,'' said Kevin Cathca
rt
director of Lambda Legal, a gay rights group. ''I don't se
e that quieting down.''
Bush backed a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriages after the high court in Massachusetts ruled it is unconstitutional to prevent gay couples from marrying.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-gay19.html
Gay-rights supporters have big plans for GOP convention
April 19, 2004
NEW YORK -- President Bush's efforts to ban gay marriage are driving gay rights activists to plan protests and other attention-grabbing events in New York City this summer during the Republican convention.
Protesters opposed to the war in Iraq and other Bush administration policies have long focused on the four-day convention that starts Aug. 30 and is expected to draw 15,000 journalists. Gay rights groups, however, are just now eying the convention
s an ideal forum to stage protests.
''This is an issue that has really swept the country from coast to coast and is dominating public discussion about civil rights,'' said Kevin Cathca
rt
director of Lambda Legal, a gay rights group. ''I don't se
e that quieting down.''
Bush backed a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriages after the high court in Massachusetts ruled it is unconstitutional to prevent gay couples from marrying.