California Courts to Consider Gay-Marriage

[Rhino]

California Courts to Consider Gay-Marriage Cases

Monday, July 10, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO — In nearly two years since John Lewis and Stuart Gaffney took part in this city's same-sex marriage rebellion, they have filed three rounds of tax returns, buried a mother, vacationed in Europe and attended five weddings — four involving both a bride and a groom.

These are the typical joys, sorrows and rituals of couples who have been together for nearly two decades. Yet for Lewis and Gaffney, one of 4,037 pairs whose San Francisco-issued marriage licenses were invalidated by the California Supreme Court, daily domesticity also brings reminders of the legal rights they do not have and are suing to secure.

"We took a vow at San Francisco City Hall to be together for better or worse," said Gaffney, 43. "It's hard because while we wait, we wait in a separate and unequal status."

A state appeals court in San Francisco on Monday will consider whether a trial judge erred in declaring the state's existing marriage laws unconstitutional.

The First District Court of Appeal is scheduled to hear six hours of arguments in as many related cases — four of them filed by the city and lawyers for 20 couples seeking the right to wed, and two brought by groups that want to maintain the status quo barring same-sex unions.........http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,202758,00.html

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

California Courts to Consider Gay-Marriage

But of COURSE they're going to consider it, it's California! :rolleyes:

Overwhelmingly, repeatedly the people of this nation uphold the standard of the institution of marriage as man and woman united, yet they will not stop pushing for special rights. http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/images/icons/shake000.gif

[Kathy29]

California is a hole, a cesspool, a sewer, it is disgusting, sickening and loathesome.

Now, I'll tell you how I really feel.

California is a nation unto itself. It will pick and choose which laws it will and will not follow, not only the state but city by city Some cities choose not to be part of the State, or the rest of the country. Some cities have declared themselves parts of other countries like Los Angeles and Maywood both of which are mexican territories.

At some point in time a disaster is going to strike California. A massive earthquake, massive out of control wildfires. When that happens, don't help. Don't send money, or blankets, or water. Let California wallow in the misery of its own making.

[Wyatt_Junker]

I heard Phil Angelides say that if he wins the governorship, the first thing he's gonna do is pass a bill for mano-a-mano marriage.

Barbara Boxer and Frankenstein will swear him in with a black mass ceremony wearing cheap, drugstore Halloween masks. Phil will wear the assless chaps and sport the goat head.

AZT will be available like candy corn to all the poo packers in old red brick pharmacies courtesy of the Cali Guv. Homos will carry it in their purses inside dildo-shaped Pez dispensers.

California is a mosh pit of whacky fun.

[Rhino]

LOL! What movie was that? Animal House?

[True Grace]

I'm surprised gay marriage isn't already legal there.

Thank God I live in Texas!

[Kathy29]

Angelides is running for governor, governor of what is a mystery. He wants gay marriage, drivers licenses for illegals, a tax on the tax on corporations (presumably tax them until the last of the evil corporate empires are gone from the state) and, with a smile, has promised to tax the rich and middle class to take away all the benefit they got with the Bush tax cut. He vows to make them give it back.

There is a part of me that would like to see him get elected. Like biting on a sore tooth, there's a curiosity factor to see how bad it would get. But, I have a son whose job is here and his wife's job is here. If their companies move then there's a handbasket in hell with a tag on it that says "California".

[DoctorDoom]

Angelides is looking for an object lesson that not everyone agrees with him.

He vows to make them give it back.He's a typical liberal asshole who has the delusion that all money belongs to the government and that we're paid out of the goodness of their li'l pea-pickin' hearts. He has painted a big target on his back, and he needs a set of rear-view mirrors screwed to his head so that he can watch his six.

And I thought Massholechusetts was bad. Jeez!