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Same-Sex Marriage / New Paltz, New York / California #767872

FNC Evening News for Friday, Feb 27, 2004
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(Studio: Shepard Smith) The wedding ceremonies for gay couples in New Paltz, New York, shown. [New Paltz Mayor Jason WEST†- says it’s time that mayors ensure that all Americans have equal rights.]

(San Francisco: Claudia Cowan) San Francisco’s continuing defiance of California law by allowing same-sex couples to marry featured; details given about the petition filed by state Attorney General Bill Lockyer†, on the request by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, which asks the state Supreme Court to rule on the legality of gay marriage and to order San Francisco to stop issuing same-sex marriage licenses until the court’s decision, and the defeat of a constitutional amendment that would have banned gay marriage in Idaho. [LOCKYER†- describes petition.]

(Studio: Shepard Smith) The opposition of Senators John Kerry and John Edwards to same-sex marriage and to a constitutional amendment that would ban it reported.

Reporter(s):
Smith, Shepard;
Cowan, Claudia
Duration:
00:02:40

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