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...Oregon constitution dictates that "no law shall be passed granting to any citizen or class of citizens privileges or immunities which, upon the same terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens." Sowle largely based a quick preliminary opinion on that language: the county not only could offer marriage licenses to gays...
...taken office the previous month, had ordered officials to license same-sex marriages; eventually thousands of gays showed up. Even though Newsom was acting in defiance of a California "defense of marriage" law defining marriage as one man, one woman--a law that doesn't exist in Oregon--the marriages he engineered became huge news...
...Thorpe had to keep them from coming until March 10. For weeks, Oregon's leading gay activist discouraged gay people--"around the clock"--from going to the county to demand marriage licenses. Thorpe told couples that B.R.O. was planning to submit a sheaf of license applications at once--"Would you be willing to just wait a couple of weeks?" she would ask. If they were persistent, she told them about the filing deadline, "and people got that...
...Longtime Oregon political organizer Tim Nashif has helped form a new group, the Defense of Marriage Coalition, which is hoping to place an anti-gay-marriage initiative on November's ballot. The state supreme court has yet to approve the measure's language--a routine but time-consuming step--and it's unclear whether the coalition will have time after court approval to gather the 100,000 signatures needed to put the initiative before voters. Nashif, however, is confident that anger will fuel an unprecedented petition drive. "I have never seen people respond to anything like I have seen them...
...graduating from high school and she is about to marry for the second time. Linn issued an apology last Thursday for the lack of "public involvement in decision making, including ongoing, open communication"--though she did say, as she often does, that it was her "obligation under the Oregon constitution to support marriage equality...