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California Strikes Back with Gay 'Marriage' as Top Legislative Priority
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SAN FRANCISCO, November 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - San Francisco's homosexual activist Democratic state Assemblyman Mark Leno is expected to table his bill to legalize same-sex "marriage" for the state on the day the assembly re-convenes - December 6.
The bill, originally introduced in January, was stalled until after last week's federal elections, in order to "build support."
San Francisco Chronicle columnists Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross aren't the only ones who think Leno's decision to begin debate on the issue, immediately after a federal election that proved Americans are sick of the left-wing agenda, is "Flying in the face of conventional wisdom." California voters, in a state-wide referendum on the issue, during elections in 2000, overwhelmingly approved the traditional definition of marriage as between a man and a woman.
Even rabid pro-abortion and pro-homosexual California Senator Dianne Feinstein is wondering at Leno's wisdom. "The whole [gay "marriage"] issue has been too much, too fast, too soon,'' she said.
Senate President Don Perata, D-Oakland, agreed that the timing of the debate was poor. "We still have a huge budget problem, and we still haven't had a chance to examine the true nature of the bus that just hit us," he said, as reported by the Chronicle. "We got our backsides kicked. We should not be so smug as to think we are the nose cone of social change."
Leno is convinced of his success. He said the bill was co-sponsored by fellow Democrat Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuņez, "So we are definitely moving ahead," he said.
Last year Leno sponsored a new bill making it an offence, with fines of up to $150,000, for businesses that discriminate against anyone fitting his new definition of gender: someone with "identity, appearance, or behavior, whether or not that identity, appearance, or behavior is different from that traditionally associated with the victim's sex at birth."
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