Posted on 02/20/2004 8:24:18 AM PST by MaryFromMichigan
(Grand Rapids, February 20, 2004, 8:07 a.m.) Jaeden Wagner admits she's a little young to get married. But that won't stop her and her partner from showing up at the county building Friday morning to apply for a marriage license. The Grand Valley State sophomore says she's entitled to the same rights as everyone else.
The fight for same sex marriage comes to West Michigan today. Some local gay and lesbian couples plan to converge on the Kent County Clerk's office in an attempt to obtain a marriage license.
If gay and lesbian couples ask for a form, staffers for Kent County Clerk Mary Hollinrake will show them one. On the front, it requests information from the "male" and "female." - On the back of the form is the law: No man" it says, "shall marry another man," and "no woman shall marry another woman."
If they want to get married, Hollinrake says they need to visit the capitol, not the county building.
But gays and lesbians won't find a vote in state representative Jim Koetje. Instead of supporting same sex marriage, the Walker republican says he'd rather vote for a proposed constitutional amendment banning it.
He also says he doesn't appreciate the self proclaimed act of "civil disobedience."
But Wagner says the event in Grand Rapids is just the first step in the march to the capitol city.
Actually, I think the better point is discrimination against unmarried heterosexual couples.
Actually, while we both disagree with their desire, I think their motives are even more sinister than finanical. I think its simply the hedonistic nature of the left and their desire to destroy anything in America that is 'good'. Look at the left and their homosexual storm troopers. What do they target? Marriage, the Boy Scouts and the Flag. They're no different than Al Quida - its really about hating America and all that's made it good.
You don't see straight men DEMANDING to get married because nobody DENIES them the right to do so.
Better you than us. :)
True, but Kent's got a lot of RINO's.
I think yours foolish logic. Society denies me the right to use the woman's restroom, and yet I don't demand access.
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