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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 27-Oct-2005 in issue 931

“The groups that want to preserve second-class citizenship for gays and lesbians like to howl about ‘unelected judges’ at every ruling that goes against them. Let the record show that, in 2005, a majority of the duly elected members of the California Senate and Assembly voted for AB 849 to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples. Let the record show it was the governor’s decision to let the courts resolve this matter of civil rights.”

The San Francisco Chronicle in an Oct. 3 editorial.

“They [conservative Christians] hate us. They really hate us. They are honestly fearful that if the world isn’t a hostile place for gays and lesbians, their children who are gay will come out. This is all about Alan Keyes, for example, preferring Maya Keyes being closeted and miserable and ‘right with God’ than Maya getting it into her head that she can live a full, ethical, open and out life as a lesbian.”

Syndicated gay columnist Dan Savage to The Advocate, Sept. 27.

“I think [gay menlove me] because I overdo it. I try to do things really big. I’ve always been this way – I was always making my hair redder or wearing more sparkle. Whether they’re gay or straight, people are drawn to someone who has a lot of life going on.”

Singer Wynonna Judd to The Advocate, Oct. 11.

“You know, to me, I have never really felt that strong one way or another [about same-sex marriage] because to me, I don’t, you know, I’m not personally hung up on the whole thing. … [T]he people of California … overwhelmingly voted on that issue, and Proposition 22 won. I don’t want to be the one that says, ‘Look, I decide right now your vote doesn’t mean anything. And the money that you spent on that campaign was a waste of money and it’s gone.’ And I think it just shows you also, at the same time, how much out of touch the Legislature is with the people.”

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to the San Jose Mercury News, Sept. 21. On Sept. 29, Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill passed by the Legislature that opened marriage to same-sex couples.

“If we cannot tolerate the viewpoint of someone who tries to explain why one-quarter of us [gays] like and support the president, then how can we expect the 96 percent of Americans who are heterosexual to listen seriously to our demands for equality? The growing polarization of American politics has taken root within gay America as well.”

Chris Crain, executive editor of the Washington Blade, in a Sept. 23 editorial defending the paper’s decision to publish columns by “Jeff Gannon,” the alleged former male prostitute who was drummed out of the White House press corps for lobbing softball questions at George W. Bush. “Gannon” was a reporter for a biased Web-based news organization.