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To: JohnM who wrote (10478)	10/2/2003 10:44:18 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793912

I posted when the Supremes ruled in the Texas case that the Right would make a lot of hay out of it. The majority of this country is against Gay Marriage, and there are a lot of votes out there among Democratic Social Conservatives that will switch to Republican over this. The "Blue Collar Catholic" vote, for instance. ______________________________________ Gay Marriage Used to Spur Voter Drive Associated Press WASHINGTON - Conservative groups plan to use the debate over gay marriage as a catalyst to register millions of voters. Organizers from more than two dozen groups, including the Southern Baptist Convention, the American Family Association and the Christian Coalition, say they want to make gay marriage the No. 1 social issue in the 2004 election. The groups planned to announce the voter registration drive Thursday. They will also endorse language of a constitutional amendment to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Polls suggest the public is closely divided on this question, with just over half supporting laws against gay marriage. The week of Oct. 12 will be designated "marriage protection week." The groups will put out church bulletin inserts in over 70,000 churches and Christian radio shows will schedule programming all week long on the issue. Conservatives are alarmed about a Canadian government proposal to allow gay marriages and pending court decisions on gay marriage in Massachusetts and New Jersey. "We want to make sure that homosexual marriage is not legal in this country. If that takes getting congressman out of the way who cannot support traditional marriage, that's what we'll do," said Sandy Rios, president of Concerned Women for America, a conservative public policy organization. "This is the very underpinning of civilization. If we remove those foundations, our entire civilization will come crumbling down." David Smith, a spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, which advocates the rights of gays and lesbians, criticized conservatives for using gay marriage as a political rallying cry. "If these people want to demonize gay and lesbian families for electoral purposes, I think that will backfire," Smith said. "What they're trying to do is deny children raised in gay families the security of the legal structure provided by a civil marriage." thestate.com