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United States: Terrified at the thought their hatred of homosexuals being condemned by the mainstream, a bunch of loony fundies, with the help of the notoriously bigoted American Family Association, is fighting Mayor Greg Nickels official recognition of same-sex marriages.
A group of ministers, troubled that Mayor Greg Nickels has signed an executive order recognizing same-sex marriages from other states, will gather today at the King County Courthouse to support a lawsuit demanding an end to it.
The American Family Association, a conservative advocacy group based in Tupelo, Miss., has dispatched lawyers to file legal papers challenging local governments from California to New York that have endorsed gay unions, and Seattle is their next stop.
Nickels' action Monday, which explicitly confirmed benefits to the partners of gay city employees married out of state, prompted Brian Fahling, a senior trial lawyer with the Mississippi group, to telephone Calvary Fellowship Church and organize a campaign against the city's support of gay marriage.
No mayor has the authority to act contrary to the state of Washington,said Fahling, referring to a 1998 law defining marriage as an oath between a man and a woman.There's no question here. You don't have to be a lawyer to know what the law says. It's a slam-dunk, legally.
Ministers to protest gay marriage—Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 11th March 2004.
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