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MARRIAGE: Few encouraging outcomes for gay and lesbian community
"I don't think we should be enforcing our morals on the rest of the country." Tate said.
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into the Constitution.
Catherine Crisp, assistant professor of social welfare, wore black yesterday to represent her pain.
"They're suggesting their own moral values are superior to mine," Crisp said of the amendment's supporters. "We all have moral values. I'm seeing a trend toward an increasingly conservative society."
The 39-year-old committed to her partner, also a woman, 10 years ago.
gays and lesbians.
She said she was disturbed that we lived in a society that could not pass a movement that gave equal rights to
She said this was the first national effort to restrict rights rather than increase them, and that the effort was equivalent to writing discrimination
Ta said legislators in Kansas voted on the gay marriage issue as recently as May of this year.
"In Kansas they tried it twice and it failed both times." Ta said.
Despite losing the marriage ballot measures Tuesday night, gay rights groups found a few heartening results from the election.
In Massachusetts, despite conservative efforts to unseat them, all incumbent
The University Dance Company will perform five pieces, including Skylife by guest choreographer Michael Simms, at 7:30 tonight and tomorrow at the Lied Center.
Holly Harmison, Overbrook junior, and Amy Hutchings, Denver senior, take a minute to relax backstage during a University Dance Company dress rehearsal yesterday evening at the Lied Center. The company's show opens at 7:30 tonight at the Lied Center and will be performed again at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow.
Simms choreographed the ballet for nine dancers during a late September residency at the University of Kansas.
The performance includes 24 KU students, she said.
"When you work with a professor you tend to know their styles." Vaglio said.
She said the dancers enjoyed the opportunity to work with a guest choreographer because they could take what he had to offer and try new things.
legislators who supported equal treatment for same-sex couples won re-election.
Kristin Vaglio, Leawood senior and president of the University Dance Company, said the performance would include modern, jazz, ballet and lyrical styles of dance.
Austin Caster
Tickets cost $10 for adults and $7 for students and senior citizens and are available at the Lied Center Box Office, Murphy Hall box office and the Student Union Activities box office. For more information call 864-ARTS.
Idaho and North Carolina voters elected their first openly gay legislators.
They were an openly gay Hispanic woman, Lupe Valdez, was elected county sheriff in Dallas.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
Edited by Jon Ralston.
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