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Vol. 122, No. 207 75¢ Daily / $1.25 Sunday
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August 29, 2013
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Lawyers: Gay marriages legally solid
SANTA FE (AP) — As hundreds of gay and lesbian couples flock to courthouses around New Mexico to get married, advocates are hopeful the state’s highest court will soon step in to resolve lingering legal questions and provide a uniform statewide policy on gay marriage. For now, six of the state’s 33 counties are issuing marriage licenses to same-
sex couples and a number of other clerks say they’re waiting for a court order before they take similar steps. What remains uncertain is when a legal challenge over same-sex marriage reaches the five-member Supreme Court. In the meantime, recently married couples aren’t caught in legal limbo, according to Antoinette
Sedillo Lopez, a professor of family law at the University of New Mexico. She said Wednesday the marriages are legally sound, even if the state Supreme Court were to override recent district judge’s rulings that ordered clerks to issue licenses. “In New Mexico, the legal policy is marriages are presumed valid until a court declares them invalid (on
an individual basis),” said Sedillo Lopez. That didn’t happen in 2004 when the Sandoval County clerk issued more than 60 marriage licenses to same-sex couples before stopping when then Attorney General Patricia Madrid objected. Six years later, a state district judge in Santa Fe ruled that a marriage license issued in Sandoval County to two
HASAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE
Providers, advocates criticize behavioral health turnover
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — A military jury on Wednesday sentenced Maj. Nidal Hasan to death for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood... - PAGE B3
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JILL MCLAUGHLIN RECORD STAFF WRITER
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Art lovers check out the work of the 30th annual International Juried Art Show at the Roswell Museum and Art Center, Tuesday.
MANZIEL OUT FOR HALF OF A&M OPEN HOUSTON (AP) — Johnny Football’s season will start a little late. Johnny Manziel was suspended for the first half of Texas A&M’s opening... - PAGE B1
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• Jesus Carrillo • Manuel J. D’Almeida • Veronica L. “Betty” Chavez - PAGE A2
women was valid and subject to divorce. “Folks who have received marriage licenses from county clerks and have gotten married with those licenses are just as married as anyone else,” said Egolf, a lawyer who represented two Santa Fe men in a lawsuit that led to a court order directing county officials to issue them a marriage license.
RFAL Juried Art Show draws emotion AMY VOGELSANG RECORD STAFF WRITER
There is a tender modesty mixed with wisdom in his eyes. His mane encircles his face, vibrant with greens, blues, oranges, yellows and teals. It feels like he is studying the
viewer, as if he knows to see that each piece is more about you than you unique in its technique thought he could. and style, but also in the story it tells and the emo“The Lion Knows” is just tions it elicits. For artist one of many art pieces dis- Peggy Krantz, her lion has played in the 30th annual received a lot of attention. Roswell Fine Arts League (RFAL) Juried Art Show. “I was trying to capture Walking through the what I saw in Africa,” she peaceful exhibit, it’s easy explains. “The lion was so
secure in his manner, like he knew he was king. But he didn’t have an attitude about it. He just had this all knowing look about him.” According to many who pass by the lion’s stare, Krantz achieved her See ART SHOW, Page A3
State health of ficials came under fire from patients, behavioral health providers and advocates Wednesday during a telephone conference, during which officials repeatedly deflected criticism about the recent decision to defund community health centers. The phone session was organized by New Mexico Human Services Department and Washingtonbased Centers for Medicaid Services to provide a platfor m for patients and providers to update administration on problems with patient care. The department cited a yet-to-be publicly released audit to defund the centers, 12 of which have closed See TURNOVER, Page A2
Fear of US strike ‘Camp’ celebrates DVD release on Syria spreads
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Fears of a possible U.S. strike against Syria’s regime over an alleged chemical weapons attack rippled across the region Wednesday, as about 6,000 Syrians fled to neighboring Lebanon in a 24-hour period and Israelis scrambled for gas masks in case Damascus retaliates against them.
U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon pleaded for more time for
diplomacy and to allow U.N. investigators to complete their work. The experts, wearing flak jackets and helmets, collected blood and urine samples from victims during a visit to at least one of the areas hit in last week’s attack. Seven days after chemical weapons were purportedly unleashed on rebel-held suburbs of the Syrian capiSee SYRIA, Page A3
Roughly 40,000 people in 85 cities viewed it in theaters last spring, and now the Roswell-based film “Camp” is being shown one last time to celebrate its release on DVD. A “nicely per for med” film, as reviewed by the L.A. T imes, “Camp” is based on experiences of Royal Family Kids Camps’ campers and counselors. “There’s a huge need for people to step up and love these abused and
neglected children,” said Roswell’s own Jacob Roebuck, writer and director of the film, in a press release. “There is no other medium like a movie that can entertain and encourage people to become engaged.” If you missed it the first time around, there will be a free showing 7 p.m. tonight at Galaxy 8, 4501 N. Main. Since there are no tickets, seating will be on a first come basis. The film is available in
Christian bookstores across the nation as well as online. Some of the actors involved include Asante Jones (“Dexter”), Grace Johnston (“The Devil’s Dozen), Matthew Jacob Wayne (“New Girl”) and Roswell local Josh Berry.
“I am glad to call Roswell home and have really enjoyed the support of the city and the film community here,” Roebuck said.
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Left: President Barack Obama speaks at a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, Wednesday, at the Lincoln Memorial. Sandy Redman of Pine Top, N.C., cries as she listens to Obama’s speech. Redman attended the first march 50 years ago.
MLK’s dream inspires a new march, and a presiWASHINGTON (AP) — Standing on hallowed ground of the civil rights movement, President Barack Obama challenged new generations Wednesday to seize the cause of
racial equality and honor the “glorious patriots” who marched a half century ago to the very steps from which Rev. Martin Luther King spoke during the March on Washington.
In a moment rich with history and symbolism, tens of thousands of Americans of all backgrounds and colors thronged to the National Mall to join the nation’s
first black president and civil rights pioneers in marking the 50th anniversary of King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Obama urged each of them to become a moder n-day
marcher for economic justice and racial harmony. “The arc of the moral universe may bend toward See DREAM, Page A3