Article: Baldacci: Gay rights bill is lawmakers' job ; State House: The governor says rights protection is the responsibility of elected officials, not voters.

Article: Bishop neutral on gay-rights bill ; State ...
Portland Press Herald (Maine);  March 23, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... 23-2005 Bishop neutral on gay-rights bill ; State House: Bishop Malone ... oppose Gov. John Baldacci's gay-rights bill, the Portland diocese announced ... gay rights, but supported a gay-rights bill in 2000. Malone did not take ...

Article: GAY RIGHTS BILL FOES PLAN BALLOT REPEAL
The Boston Globe;  October 26, 1989 ;     700+ words ...The battle for the gay rights bill is not going to end when Gov ... of the leading sponsors of the gay rights bill, said he was not overly concerned ... gay rights legislation. If the gay rights bill is signed into law, opponents ...

Article: Arnold's Gay Rights Give-and-Take; Governor signs ...
Monterey County Weekly;  October 6, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... In any other year, AB 1400 bill would be the major civil rights bill of the session, and a lead news story when it was signed ... puts him at odds with those folks." David Jensen of the gay rights group Pride of Monterey County called Laird's bill "a step ...

Article: GAY RIGHTS BILL OPPONENTS PUSH DRIVE FOR ...
The Boston Globe;  February 5, 1990 ;     700+ words ... ... last November, when Gov. Dukakis signed a gay rights bill into law. The gay rights legislation, an amendment to the state's ... Cambridge), who spearheaded efforts for the gay rights bill in the Senate. Whether the gay rights issue ...

Article: Gay rights bill would build on past effort ; ...
Portland Press Herald (Maine);  March 4, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Herald (Maine) 03-04-2005 Gay rights bill would build on past effort ... amp; State Memo: BALDACCI'S GAY RIGHTS BILL The governor's draft bill is ... and colleges. AUGUSTA -- The gay-rights bill that Gov. John Baldacci has ...

Article: Promised gay-rights bill could raise timing ...
Portland Press Herald (Maine);  September 7, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Maine) 09-07-2004 Promised gay-rights bill could raise timing issues ... past. The Legislature passed a gay-rights bill in 1997 and then-Gov. Angus ... Baldacci, who sponsored a failed gay-rights bill in the Legislature long before ...

Article: BEHIND THE CURVE 25 YEARS AFTER BECOMING THE FIRST 'GAY ...
The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  April 11, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... meant that other states looking to adopt gay rights protections always turned to Wisconsin ... He says there are several reasons why gay rights activists were not able to defeat the ... prior in passing the nation's first gay rights law. For one, the conservative Republicans ...