Same-sex marriage the new abortion?
Using pulpits, petitions, and political action committees, conservative activists are mobilizing a grass-roots political movement against gay marriage that they say is more intense and urgent than their campaigns against abortion. Look for pickets at a domestic partner registry near you. Activists say their aims are to enact a federal constitutional amendment sanctioning only opposite-sex marriage and to make 2004 presidential candidates take a stand against same-sex unions (as if most of them haven't) and queer rights. Alarmed by the U.S. Supreme Court's June decision making it perfectly legal for queers to have sex in private, conservatives say they are redirecting resources from the antiabortion movement and the school voucher fight to stop the expansion of gay rights. They warn, as Focus on the Family founder James Dobson did in a newsletter this month, that "the homosexual activist movement ... is poised to administer a devastating and potentially fatal blow to the traditional family." Boston.com
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