Posted on 05/24/2008 5:26:01 AM PDT by kellynla
Some 10 days ago, four black-robed members of the California Supreme Court trashed traditional marriage of one-man-and-one-woman. But that opinion has to be translated into changes in state law, forms, and procedures before any actual same-sex "marriage" can take place, and that hasn't happened yet and might not for some time, according to a pro-family organization.
For example, the legally required form in California for marriage reflects several references to "bride" and "groom" and "husband" and "wife" that must properly be filled out by "qualifying" individuals before state law allows it to be recognized, according to Randy Thomasson of the Campaign for Children and Families.
And state law demands, "Every person who knowingly procures or offers any false or forged instrument to be filed, registered, or recorded in any public office within this state … is guilty of a felony." Thomasson believes that leaves a formal change in state statutes as the only way the state can implement what the court has expressed in its opinion.
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Massachusetts had a similar problem, but Gov. Romney
just ordered the Clerks to obey.
The Massachusetts Constitution (the oldest in the US, perhaps)
forbade the Court from their decision if, and only if,
Romney had done nothing.
Instead, RINO (docile puppet of the DNC) Romney
ignored the Constitution and
enforced the illegal order to the Clerks.
Therefore, Romney played ‘victim’ (but the Maucks were unavailable for comment).
In fact, in section 355, it seems to give the power to create the forms to the Department of Public Health...
355. (a) The forms for the marriage license shall be prescribed by the State Department of Public Health, and shall be adapted to set forth the facts required in this part.
Maybe he's actually referring to Section 300, which says, in part:
300. (a) Marriage is a personal relation arising out of a civil contract between a man and a woman, to which the consent of the parties capable of making that contract is necessary.(and the forms, therefore, don't meet "all the facts required in this part," perhaps?)
We shouldn't rest easy just because the amendment passes in November. There is always the "consolation" effect of giving the losing side concessions for their loses, a PC practice that has been increasingly beneficial to the left. Thus, CA has domestic partnerships with virtually the same rights and "protections" of marriage, thanks to brain tumor Schwarzenegger.
Conservatism and rational sanity is on the defensive in this country; an undesirable position to be in. This amendment is but a last resort defensive move which should never have needed to be deployed. It's like finally shooting a violent intruder who has you and your family cornered in the basement after having having already inflicted wounds on you and yours. He should not have ever been allowed to enter the house.
I weep for the future of this country.
One of the many reasons Willard is unacceptable as a VP nominee.
It's absurd that anyone would consider that RINO a conservative, let alone the conservative savior.
Has anyone seen Sean Hannity apologize for supporting and attending fund raisers for Schwarzenegger?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I’m not a big fan of Hannity, for that matter. He’s a blind republibot.
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