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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Ridiculous....but what else is new?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Debi R-S</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=thansen@moscow.com href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">Tom Hansen</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Moscow Vision 2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, February 27, 2014 3:48
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] $1M OK'd to defend
gay marriage ban</DIV>
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<DIV style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Courtesy of today's (February 27,
2014) Moscow-Pullman Daily News.</DIV>
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class="blox-headline entry-title">$1M OK'd to defend gay marriage
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class=sub-headline>Ringo opposes JFAC's allocation to Constitutional Defense
Fund</P></DIV>
<DIV style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN style="">The Idaho
Legislature's Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee endorsed a transfer of $1
million from Idaho's general fund to the Constitutional Defense Fund - a
request made by Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter.</SPAN></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Rep. Shirley Ringo, D-Moscow, a member
of that committee, opposed the move, which will allocate money to defend the
state's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and civil unions.</SPAN></P>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">"I wasn't interested in spending money
on supporting a bad decision," Ringo said Wednesday during a state legislative
teleconference hosted by the Moscow Chamber of Commerce. "It won't hold up
constitutionally."</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Otter has said he wants see the state
defend its ban, and he announced in January he wanted to see the
Constitutional Defense Fund, which would be a source of money to pay for such
an effort, financed by that amount when he proposed his fiscal year
budget.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Four gay couples are suing the state
because of its constitutional amendment making it illegal for same-sex couples
to wed. It was approved by voters in 2006. Also in January, Attorney General
Lawrence Wasden secured the right to defend the state's ban, according to
previous reports.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">"The fund has been utilized for a
variety of purposes that include everything from the endangered species act,
parental consent or, as in this case, you reference the part of the Idaho
Constitution that maintains that marriage is defined as being between one man
and one woman," wrote Jon Hanian, Otter's press secretary, in response to a
telephone inquiry by the Daily News on Wednesday.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">The fund was created in 1995 to provide
money for defending the state and its constitution, Hanian
said.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">The Moscow Human Rights Commission
hasn't yet taken up the issue of gay marriage. Chairman Ken Faunce said it's
likely the members would support same-sex marriages being legal in Idaho - if
they opted to take up the matter sometime in the future.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Members of this city advisory group
recently completed a draft letter for the Moscow City Council explaining its
stance against House Bills 426 and 427, the controversial religious freedom
bills sponsored by Rep. Lynn Luker, R-Boise.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">The council members last week opted not
to send a letter to the Capitol after finding out the bills weren't
advancing.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Moscow and six other Idaho cities have
enacted bans against discrimination based on sexual orientation. The Luker
bills would have overturned these local ordinances.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Ringo also said she saw "no end of
places" where the money could be allocated instead. One good effort would be
using it to partially finance raising salaries for state employees and
teachers.</SPAN></P>
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<DIV style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN style="">Seeya 'round town,
Moscow, because . . .</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN style=""><BR></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN style="">"Moscow Cares" (the
most fun you can have with your pants on)</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><A style=""
href="http://www.moscowcares.com/"><FONT
color=#000000>http://www.MoscowCares.com</FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="">Tom Hansen</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="">Moscow, Idaho</SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">“Social conservatives seem
to see a bigger threat to marriage from committed gay couples who want in on
it than from straight ones who opt out of it.” </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">― Margaret
Talbot</SPAN></DIV>
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