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...rejiggering the CPI might be put aside for scholarly debate and perhaps glacial, piecemeal action--unless it becomes the last resort for producing a balanced budget. That could happen. Says New York Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan: "The seven-year balanced-budget plan of the President says in the final years there's a 30% unspecified cut in discretionary, nondefense spending. Without [the CPI change] you couldn't do that." But even then Republicans and Democrats, Congress and the President, would all have to agree to join hands and jump together...
...years ago next week, three couples, all longtime residents of Hawaii, decided to challenge that state's proscription of same-sex marriage by applying for marriage licenses in Honolulu. It was not a decision they entered into lightly. Joe Melillo and Patrick Lagon had been a couple for 13 years; Antoinette Pregil and Tammy Rodrigues--who raised Antoinette's daughter together--for nine; and Ninia Baehr and Genora Dancel for 18 months. The health department refused to issue the licenses on the ground that only a man can marry a woman, and only a woman can marry...
...partner, Patrick Marston, was asked recently why he wanted to marry me. Patrick looked surprised at the question and replied simply, "Because I love David very much and want to spend the rest of my life with him." It is hard to imagine that such an honest and loving statement could be the subject of a bitter national debate. Last week's Hawaii court ruling has increased the tempo of the morals police, who are determined to impose their values on our lives. Unfortunately, there is no shortage of political demagogues willing to build their careers on the fear...
Repeatedly I have been told by politicians frantically seeking to avoid leadership that a majority of Americans do not approve of same-sex unions. Although I am sad that people are so frightened of Patrick's and my love, I refuse to allow anyone's discomfort to be the reason why we should be less free than other Americans. I sincerely hope that eventually most of our fellow citizens will be able to understand our love for each other. But nowhere in the Constitution of the United States does the word comfortable appear as a criterion for the full enjoyment...
...entire evening editing the stories and laying out the sports page for the next day. My night was Friday. For two years I spent Fridays in the basement of the paper, a room named for our production supervisor, a 56-year-old priest from Everett (with Mafia connections), Mr. Patrick R. Sorrento (hereafter referred...