Preachers fail to get sigs to halt Cleveland partner registry, but still plan for a Spring vote to repeal it

Qnews  Jan 09 09

Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer , Gay People's Chronicle The Cleveland pastors who hoped to put the city's new domestic-partner registry to a city-wide vote have failed to gather enough signatures, but plan to pursue a different method to get the registry repealed after it takes effect in April. About 11,000 signatures were required by Wednesday to put the issue to a vote as a referendum. Rev. C. Jay Matthews of Mount Sinai Baptist Church, who leads the group of pastors opposed to the registry, told Cleveland Plain Dealer that only a few thousand signatures were collected. He blamed the. Full story...

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