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As the 2007 legislative session begins its final throes, the annual duel between homosexual rights groups and their conservative foes is being rejoined. The former have already scored one victory in the much-delayed budget that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed last month, a first-ever appropriation for aid to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) victims of domestic violence. "These types of government and nonprofit partnerships have for many years kept many Californians healthy, safe and self-sufficient, and for the first time the California budget includes such funds for LGBT- specific services," Geoff Kors, executive director of Equality California, declared after the...

Lawmakers in California are pursuing their homosexual marriage agenda despite opposition from voters and the governor alike, with a 7-3 vote in the state Assembly's Judiciary Committee in favor of such a plan, according to critics who battled the same proposal last year. "Shame on the Democrat politicians for attacking and redefining marriage," said Randy Thomasson, president of the Campaign for Children and Families, a nonpartisan organization that defends traditional marriage and the family. "This is an attack upon the voters and our system of government as much as it is an attack on marriage," he said after testifying before...

A state Assembly committee voted Tuesday for a bill that would allow gay couples to marry, despite a veto threat and a continuing debate over the legislation's constitutionality. The Judiciary Committee approved the bill by Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, sending it to the Appropriations Committee, the last stop before the Assembly floor. The 7-3 vote split along party lines, with Democrats backing the proposal and Republicans opposing it. Lawmakers approved a nearly identical measure in 2005, but it was vetoed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The governor argued that it violated Proposition 22, an anti-gay marriage initiative adopted by California...

Sacramento,California -- A Democrat-controlled committee in the California Legislature has passed full-blown homosexual "marriages." Tuesday's vote by the Assembly Judiciary Committee was 7 to 3, with all Democrats in favor of so-called "same-sex marriages" and all Republicans supporting real marriage between a man and a woman. "Shame on the Democrat politicians for attacking and redefining marriage," said Randy Thomasson, president of Campaign for Children and Families (CCF), a leading nonpartisan California organization defending marriage and family, who today testified in committee against AB 43. "This is an attack upon the voters and our system of government as much as it...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Log Cabin Republicans at the state capitol are putting pressure on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign a gay marriage bill this year, NBC11's Mike Luery reported. "When it comes to marriage, we believe in the fundamental fairness of the American people. There has never been a major civil rights movement that has failed in the United States," said statewide director of the Log Cabin Republicans, James Vaughn. The Log Cabin Republicans said they see marriage equality as a civil rights issue, Luery reported. They equate it to the racial equality movement promoted by Abraham Lincoln, the log...