TERMINATED - Same Sex Marriages Halted in Calif

No matter where you stand on the issue, it had to be stopped. It may have been the right thing to do but it was the wrong way to do it, you can't have renegade mayors bypassing laws because they think they're immoral. Next thing you'd have a mayor making drugs legal, or hookers, or, or maybe I'm on to something here.

about damn time

these renegade mayors that went against the law should they be tried like a ciminal that violates any government law?

this went on a lot longer than i thought it would have.

All the court said is that they temporarily have to be stopped until they rule on whether gay marriage is legal or not.

They did not rule on whether gay marriage is legal.

If they rule that it is constitutional in June, then the marriages will resume.

Tried for what? The mayors may not have been breaking any valid laws.

If the court decides that the fourteenth amendment of the U.S. Constitution applies to gay marriage, then gay marriage is legal because no law can superceded the constitution.

Good news again

Yes.

I think it is disgusting...But hey..if they want to get married..just let them...

gay love is a beautiful thing

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Good news.. next they should send them all off to some remote island.

is that good news?, or what?

of course.

anything that regulates and does not allow a free man to do what he wants, as long as it keeps him away from "us" the good guys is fine right?

As long as it doesnt affect "us" the REAL AMERICAN PEOPLE, fuck em, let them all be killed.

this is a sad state of our country, and all these 19 year old pussies on this board can do is be in favor of it.

I hope one day all you homophobes suffer real pain,..

the pain of not being free.

FIRST GAY DIVORCE IN SAN FRANCISCO
April 1, 2004 - San Franciso, California

Today, the first two gay men married in San Francisco filed for divorce, citing "irreconcilable differences" under California law.

Mr. Robert Jones, husband, and Mr. Frank Harris, "wife", were among the very first gay couples to be married under Mayor Gavin Newsom's preemptive decree in February, now being called the Valentine's Day Mascara.

Jones said that while they had been living together as a registered domestic couple for over three years, and that they thought getting married would be such a great way to seal their lives together, that now, after only a few weeks of wedded bliss, they were breaking up with each other.

"Well, you hear about this all the time, but I never thought it would happen to us!" Jones lamented. "The second week of our married life, Frankie simply announced that he was no longer going to give me any more blow jobs, ever again. He said that he only gave me fellatio to lure me into marrying him. And now that he had caught me, had me hooked, there was no real reason to continue giving me deep throat or any oral sex, ever again. So I filed for divorce."

Clerks at the City and County of San Francisco Office of Marriage Licenses were initially perplexed at how to handle the divorce paperwork because the filing forms for Legal Separation and Divorce are all printed with only "Name of Husband" and "Name of Wife" on them.

So the clerks hastily modified a form for Legal Separation accordingly. Apparently when the clerks were directed to print new Marriage License forms that were gender neutral, no one thought to also revise the forms used for divorce.

It was also reported that NO, the City and County of San Francisco would NOT be giving refunds of the Marriage License fees, in the event of divorce.

"We don't refund the money to any couple, straight or gay, who decides to get a divorce. Once the City collects the fee, that is a non-refundable revenue event," stated Marie Schultz, County Clerk.

When Schultz was asked if refunds would be issued to all the gay marriages in the event that the State or Federal courts decree that gay marriages are not legal under law, she replied "No way. Once we get the money, it's ours, no matter what."

Jones has retained the legal representation of noted Beverly Hills, California, divorce attorney Howard Ketchum to file a class action lawsuit on behalf of all the gay couples married in San Francisco to put a lien on the marriage license fees collected by San Francisco.

The class action suit demands that the City refund all the payments for marriage licenses, should the courts rule that the gay marriages are illegal, null and void.

San Francisco has already collected well over $500,000 in marriage license fees, and that amount is expected to reach over $1 Million around the same time that Mel Gibson's move "The Passion of Christ" exceeds the $300 Million box office level in a couple more weeks.

Jones was last sighted entering The Stud, a gay bar in San Francisco's Castro district, which is noted for the rumored presence of a large number of so called "glory holes" in its dark, basement level club rooms.

AP News and Wire Service
(c) copyright 2004 electron news review, All Rights Reserved

how anyone can say that people shouldnt be allowed to marry whomever they wish is beyond me. the constitution and bill of rights give those rights to all citizens of this country. no where in the constitution does it define marriage as being between man and woman; those were subsequent laws that were passed.

if we as americans truly have the right to life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness, and all people are to be treated as equal, then how can anyone presume to pass a law that denies those rights. discriminating against someone based on their personal preferences is no different than discriminating based on skin color or religion or occupation.

it amazes me that people beg for seperation of church & state, but then when its convenient for them, argue that a biblical principle should be made law. man+woman is biblical, not law.

in short the constitution gives all people all rights, it does not pick and choose who gets what based on certain criteria. passing laws that contradict that is as anti-american and anti-constitution as spying or treason.

I still haven't heard one good reason why same sex couples shouldn't be allowed to get married, except for a bunch of bible bullshit.