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  • GAY POL: I'LL JOIN THE FIGHT

    03/04/2004 12:52:08 AM PST · by kcvl · 11 replies · 118+ views
    New York Post
    GAY POL: I'LL JOIN THE FIGHT March 4, 2004 -- A second New York mayor who had planned to marry gay couples now says he'll challenge state laws prohibiting same-sex unions instead. Nyack Mayor John Shields first said yesterday he would join New Paltz Mayor Jason West in presiding over gay weddings and would seek a license for himself to marry his same-sex partner. But after State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer declared that courts should decide the constitutionality of laws barring gay marriages, Shields changed his strategy, saying he "would rather be a plaintiff than a defendant." The mayor said...
  • Portrait of a Progressive Terrorist

    08/25/2003 5:41:07 AM PDT · by SJackson · 12 replies · 428+ views
    FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | August 25, 2003 | Greg Yardley
    In 1970, Kathy Boudin belonged to a revolutionary cell that failed in an attempt to commit mass murder at an army dance at Fort Dix. A decade later, she participated in a robbery that killed 3 people and left 9 children fatherless. Last week, two brain dead black parole board members released her from prison because she said she did it for them. On August 20, 2003, two New York parole board commissioners Vernon C. Manley and Daizzee D. Booey -- both African American -- paroled convicted terrorist Kathy Boudin, who was serving twenty years to life for felony murder...