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  Same-Sex Weddings Galvanize Activists [More Mayors Look At SF Actions With Favor]
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Last EditedGerald Farinas  Feb 19, 2004 06:01pm
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News DateThursday, February 19, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionSame-Sex Weddings Galvanize Activists [More Mayors Look At SF Actions With Favor]

San Francisco's defiant choice to perform same-sex marriages by the hundreds is reverberating nationwide as gay-rights groups celebrate, their adversaries hope for a backlash and politicians wrestle with how to respond.

Mayors in Chicago, Salt Lake City and upstate New York spoke favorably of the weddings, but many politicians - including some liberal Democrats - are unsettled by the spectacle of more than 2,700 gay and lesbian couples wed over the past week at San Francisco's city hall.
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