Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 17:00:29 -1000
From: ramsey@math.hawaii.edu (Tom Ramsey)
Subject: ALASKA NEWS

	Good News From Alaska!

	Dan Foley just called me:  a lower
court in Alaska has decided that Alaska 
must present compelling state interest
arguments to justify continuing to discriminate
by denying marriage licenses to same-gender
couples.

	This is what Hawaii's Supreme Court
ordered for Hawaii back in 1993, and those
arguments were attempted by the State in September
1996---and totally rejected by Judge Kevin Chang
in Honolulu Circuit Court in December 1996.


	The news from Hawaii:  not a peep out of
our own Supreme Court as to when they will rule on
the state's appeal to them of Judge Kevin Chang's
decision.

			With best regards,

			Tom Ramsey
			ex-officio, BoD
                        Marriage Project Hawaii
			PO Box 11690
			Honolulu HI 96828
			friendsofmph@msn.com