Word: antigay
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Washington thought it was done with gay issues for this year. Congress had passed the Defense of Marriage Act, which allowed states to ban same-sex marriage, and the Senate narrowly defeated a bill to ban antigay job discrimination. But gay politics of a different kind have come back to haunt Republicans and Democrats alike. In recent weeks some Republicans have found that the issue of sexual orientation--specifically their own--has re-entered the campaign. And Democrats are being accused of raising the issue to play to homophobic voters, even while their party presents itself as sympathetic...
...September Boston magazine made public what had been an open secret in political circles: that Finkelstein, who has worked for such antigay conservatives as Jesse Helms and Lauch Faircloth, is gay. Also damaging are news reports suggesting that D'Amato's Senate-campaign committee has been spending money in a way that favors Finkelstein-directed races. At D'Amato's urging, several G.O.P. candidates, including Boschwitz, Senator Larry Pressler of South Dakota and Representative Dick Zimmer of New Jersey, have replaced their strategists with Finkelstein. The candidates were apparently rewarded for this: D'Amato's committee bankrolled TV attacks against...
...will vote against this bill, though I am not for same-sex marriage, because I believe that this debate is fundamentally ugly [and] flawed." --Senator John Kerry (D., Mass.), the only Senator up for re-election to vote against the antigay Defense of Marriage...
ANITA BRYANT, 56; BERRYVILLE, ARKANSAS; singer, former antigay activist...
...foundations of Golden, Colorado, one of the most heavily organized Christian communities in the U.S. It has not caused the Rocky Mountains or the share price to tumble, and a Silver Bullet is still a Silver Bullet. Indeed, the fact that some in the Coors family continue to fund antigay organizations while adopting partner benefits tracks the state of play on the marriage- preservation bill. Many Senators, though inclined to vote for it rather than step into a conservative trap, also support an amendment offered by Senator Edward Kennedy that would guarantee gays equal rights on the job. Even some...