FIRST GAY WEDDING IN US (This is outrageous!)

sky news ^ | Last Updated: 09:59 UK, Friday February 13, 2004

[gdyniawitawa]

The US city of San Francisco has become the first civil authority in the United States to officially marry gay couples in open defiance of laws banning the practice.

The city, under the orders of new liberal Mayor Gavin Newsom, officially married at least 15 gay couples and issued marriage licences to around a dozen others.

The landmark move in California came as lawmakers in Massachusetts struggled to thwart a court ruling legalising same-sex marriages in the eastern US state.

A pair of elderly lesbians became the first couple to have their same-sex union officially blessed in San Francisco, challenging a state law that bars same-sex marriages.

A city official officiated at the wedding of Del Martin, 83, and 79-year-old Phyllis Lyon after Newsom ordered city staff to issue marriage licences to gay couples.

Instead of calling couples "bride" and "groom", the wedding licence application listed lesbian couples as "1st applicant" and "2nd applicant."

In Massachusetts, meanwhile, state legislators held a second day of heated debate, as they sought to adopt a constitutional amendment that would specifically restrict marriages to unions between one man and one woman.

The move was deemed necessary after the state Supreme Court ruled in November that same sex couples had the right to marry, and that preventing them doing so violated the state constitution

[DouglasKC]

Well, you can dress up a pig and call it your sister, but it's still a pig and still not your sister. The government may consider this marriage, but God is clear on what marriage means.

[demlosers]

Can I marry my hamster?

[ZOOKER]

Okay now, let's get practical.

Which one has to give up her Social Security benefits?

[isthisnickcool]

Can I marry my hamster?

Try a gerbil. 3% of the population says gerbil is the way to go.

[gdyniawitawa]

This is unbelievable. What happened to rule of marriage since creation? I can not believe this is happening.

[highnoon]

>Del Martin, 83, and 79-year-old Phyllis Lyon <

Didn't need that visual so soon before lunch....

[claudiustg]

I want to marry my cat. It's true that he's an animal, but then so was my first wife. While I'm already married I can't see why that unimportant fact should keep my cat from enjoying marital bliss and all of the benefits thereof.

[Modernman]

The government may consider this marriage

In this instance, not even the government considers this marriage, only a rogue mayor who is defying California law.

[cupcakes]

A pair of elderly lesbians became the first couple to have their same-sex union officially blessed in San Francisco, challenging a state law that bars same-sex marriages.
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Challenging??? How about it is illegal! Why isn't this mayor being put out of office NOW for violating state law?

[veronica]

Can I marry my hamster?

Only if PETA approves. ;)

[DonQ]

This is NOT the first same sex wedding in the US.

Remember Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley??

[KQQL]

where u been..that was yesterday.....

[SF Republican]

Can I marry my hamster? that is my question in all of this; what keeps me (except my wife) from marrying two other people and a goat? I have my rights!

[sandbar]

>Which one has to give up her Social Security benefits?

Whoever made less!!!

[mtg]

Instead of calling couples "bride" and "groom", the wedding licence application listed lesbian couples as "1st applicant" and "2nd applicant."

At the end of the ceremony, it was said, "You may now kiss the person standing next to you."

[New Perspective]

I always said that gays would be able to marry when hell freezes over. I guess these queers will be ordering their LL Bean Satan overcoats soon.

[DouglasKC]

This is unbelievable. What happened to rule of marriage since creation? I can not believe this is happening.

Didn't you get the memo? Many men have decided that God doesn't exist. Many that believe God does exist think that they know better than God. No surprise.

Luk 17:26 "And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:
Luk 17:27 they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

[Spiff]

1st Gay Marriage is in California in open defiance to state law. What is Governator Arnold going to do about it?

I'm waiting to hear. This should be interesting.

[Lady Eileen]

Rush has been talking about this right now.