[BurbankKarl]

This is the first one! A couple tried to get married in Beverly Hills today and is suing.

[grobdriver]

The group, Campaign for California Families, had planned to go to court on Friday to get an injunction preventing the city from issuing marriage licenses to gay couples.

That's what they get for telegraphing their moves.

[sopanmu]

Me thinks Arnold is about to terminate them

[BurbankKarl]

Two Gay Couples Denied Marriage Licenses In Beverly Hills
National Lawyer Says She Will File Suit

POSTED: 11:10 AM PST February 12, 2004
UPDATED: 11:32 AM PST February 12, 2004

LOS ANGELES -- Two gay couples were denied marriage licenses Thursday in Beverly Hills, leading a local attorney to announce she will sue to challenge the ban on gay marriages in California.

Feb. 12 is recognized by gay-advocacy groups as National Freedom to Marry Day, and several groups encouraged gay couples nationwide to go to courthouses and apply for marriage licenses today.

The date was chosen because of its proximity to Lincoln's Birthday and Valentine's Day, which "links equality and love," said the Rev. Troy D. Perry, one of the people taking part in Thursday's action at the Beverly Hills Courthouse.

Perry, the founder of the Metropolitan Community Churches, is the first openly gay member of the Los Angeles Human Rights Commission and a past delegate to the White House Conference on Hate Crimes.

Perry said he and his partner Phillip Ray DeBlieck had a "Holy Union Ceremony" in the United States, and said they were legally married in Canada last July.

But Perry and DeBlieck -- along with lesbian rights activist Robin Tyler and her partner, Diane Olson, granddaughter of former California Democratic Gov. Culbert Levy Olson -- were denied marriage licenses Thursday in Beverly Hills.

Instead, officials gave them fliers detailing California's same-sex marriage ban.

"We're not going to the back of the bus. We're not not getting on the bus, we're not not sitting at the lunch counter, we're just not taking civil union, domestic partnership, we're just not taking it anymore," Tyler said.

Attorney Gloria Allred said she will sue to challenge the gay marriage ban, adding that she plans on pursuing the case all the way to the California Supreme Court.

"It's time to make a legal challenge," she said. "And so we will be filing the lawsuit. There is no precedent. There are no appellate cases in California on this issue, and so we think it's long overdue and we're going to fight that fight now."

Perry said he was disappointed by Thursday's action.

"The only difference in our relationship between everybody else's in California is our sex," he said. "It's who we are. We pay taxes for everybody else's kids to go to school, which we don't mind, but we want equal treatment."

Although California does not recognize same-sex marriages, a law enacted by former Gov. Gray Davis gives domestic partners most of the legal rights and responsibilities of married couples.

Meanwhile, Massachusetts lawmakers are meeting Thursday to discuss an amendment to the state constitution that would nullify the state high court's decision last week allowing gays and lesbians to wed.

[andy58-in-nh]

Paging Merle Haggard.....

Are we rollin' down hill, like a snowball headed for Hell?....

[Agnes Heep]

They can play whatever charades they like (such as pretending that a rectum is a sex organ), but they're not married unless the marriage is recognized by the State.

[onedoug]

This isn't really about marriage. The left's prime directive is to destroy American institutions.

[concerned about politics]

Not only are the sexually dysfunctional fascists going around the will of the people, but now they're even skipping over the laws. America is being FORCED by the sexually insane to obey their demented will. They're sick, and a major danger to society. The Doctors in the past were right. They belong in the mental institutions. Society should be protected

[WinOne4TheGipper]

President Bush has got to make an amendment banning gay marriage a central focus of the campaign. He's got to get out there with House and Senate candidates, Republican or Democrat, who oppose gay marriage and Congress has to get on this ASAP.

[2banana]

The act of civil disobedience was coordinated by Mayor Gavin Newsom and top city officials

When elected officials who swear to up hold the law mock it instead, why should any of us follow the law?

[BibChr]

San Francisco Officials Marry Gay Couple

No, they don't, any more than I can put hair back on my head by renaming myself Shaggy.

Dan

[wadeintothem]

I hate being a Californian sometimes... these people run roughshod over our referendums.

[kellynla]

And every ambulance chaser in BH including Gloria Alred will be trying to represent the queers...LOL...this is all about "winning the lottery" in a court settlement. Who cares what a couple of queers do in their bedroom...their Maker will be the final Judgment on their so called "marriage."

[WinOne4TheGipper]

By the authority granted to me by God and the State of California me and myself, I now pronounce you er....ahhh....d*mn

[KC_Conspirator]

They could have ceremony knighting someone "Supreme Comander of the Universe" and give them a certificate and it would mean just the same - nothing.

[concerned about politics]

Homosexuals can already marry if they want. They have the same access to marry as anyone else. Find someone of the opposite sex and do it.
They choose a fetish instead. If they choose a fetish, that's their choice.
If they want to get married, choose a different lifestyle. It's simple. They're not being denied anything. They're denying themselves.

They're doing this to ruin the day of natural love for normal people. They must be miserable people at heart.

[GeronL]

Let not the law and reality get in the way

[concerned about politics]

If homosexual marriage passes, remember, NAMBLA members can marry and legally adopt their boy sex toys. They can adopt lots of them, and share them with each other. The Texas Sodomy law would stop any investigations. The homosexuals will be allowed to freely molest their victims at will.

[concerned about politics]

According to the sexually dysfunctional at DUmmies, the same is going to be attempted in Houston tomorrow.

Their ignoring all the nations laws. It's a homosexual fascist take over?

Homosexuals are criminally insane. They're seriously mentally ill.

[expatguy]

"Only an unmarried male and an unmarried female may marry in California."

California Marriage License, Registration and Ceremony Information

Complete disregard for the law?

If two homosexuals can get married. Why can't two 15 year olds (boy and girl) get married? Because it is illegal? That does not seem to stop homosexuals.

[expatguy]

Why are these city officials not being ARRESTED for breaking the law??

Why are they not being stopped?