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To: PROLIFE who wrote (548982)	3/6/2004 1:15:32 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

My appologies then... I thought you had an excuse for your bizzare post.

To: PROLIFE who wrote (548982)	3/6/2004 1:17:34 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Bloomberg Said to Want State to Legalize Same-Sex Marriages By ROBERT D. McFADDEN March 6, 2004 Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who has refused in his two years in office to disclose his personal views on gay and lesbian marriage, told 80 journalists at a lesbian and gay fund-raising dinner in Manhattan Thursday night that he favored changing state law to legalize same-sex unions, four people who were there said yesterday. On a day when the struggle for gay and lesbian marriage rights in New York moved into the courts with the first of many anticipated lawsuits and into the streets with auto caravans and protests on Long Island, the mayor of an upstate community said he would temporarily suspend his performing of same-sex marriages and Gov. George E. Pataki vowed again to uphold the existing marriage law. But it was Mr. Bloomberg who was caught in the day's spotlight, although reluctantly. The mayor, who has a long record of supporting civil rights for gays but has resisted voicing personal opinions that might alienate his conservative supporters, has been under intense pressure to make his views known as the campaign for gay and lesbian marriage rights has blossomed in New York in recent weeks. But he had steadfastly resisted the entreaties until Thursday night, and many who heard him speak at a $1,000-a-plate dinner of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association were surprised to hear him say he favored a change in the law.... nytimes.com