Gee, I wonder how much a dozen black roses costs?
Posted on 02/21/2004 1:30:06 PM PST by demlosers
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California's attorney general will go to court as soon as possible to defend a state law defining marriage as a union of a man and a woman, a spokeswoman said on Saturday. A lawsuit could pit the state against the city of San Francisco, which has sanctioned thousands of same-sex weddings since just before the Feb. 14 Valentine's Day weekend.
"We think it's very important to have this issue resolved as quickly as possible for the people of California, as well as for the couples who have obtained these marriage licenses," Hallye Jordan, a spokeswoman for a Attorney General Bill Lockyer, said. "We're going to court as soon as possible to defend state law."
On Friday, the state's Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger stepped up his rhetoric against gay weddings, sending Lockyer, a Democrat, a letter ordering him to take "immediate steps" to end same-sex matrimony.
A second Superior Court judge had refused on Friday to halt the weddings, authorized by newly-elected San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.
Gay weddings have been a hot-button U.S. political issue in recent weeks. Besides the weddings in San Francisco, the highest court in Massachusetts issued a ruling compelling the state to recognize marriages between homosexuals.
Some conservatives have said that Republican President Bush, who is running for re-election this year, will push to amend the U.S. constitution to ban gay marriage. Sen. John Kerry, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination to run against Bush, is from Massachusetts.
Lockyer has 30 days to respond to Schwarzenegger's directive, released during California's Republican Party Convention last night, Jordan said.
He will argue that San Francisco's actions violate California's Proposition 22, which state voters approved in 2000 defining marriage as being only between a man and a woman, she added.
City officials have not yet decided how they would respond to a potential lawsuit, although San Francisco sued the state on Thursday saying the marriage law violated the California constitution.
"To the best of my knowledge the state hasn't initiated litigation," said Matt Dorsey, a spokesman for city attorney Dennis Herrera. "It's premature to comment."
There have been almost 3,200 gay marriages performed in San Francisco since Feb. 12.
Lame lame lame.
Send the police in, arrest everyone and everyone participating in this. They're breaking the law, plain and simple.
Someone posted on another thread yesterday that it was $250,000+. That ain't a whole lot of money. Probably didn't even cover cost of keeping gov't open to perform these unions.
Exactly correct.
To illustrate the truth of you comments, the polygamists in rural Utah are using precisely the same arguments as the homosexual mafia in their legal battles.
Amendment XIV Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The homers have been denied the right to marry with due process of the law. They are protected under the established laws to marry as defined by due process.
Notice something interesting here? All they say about Kerry is that he is from Massachussetts. Nothing about his position. Very stark omission!
Here's the thread, Gay marriages bring big bucks to San Francisco business.
This little announcement is making the email rounds among the loony left (I saw it on a college alumni discussion board):
Today a coworker of mine had a thought to send flowers to a random couple waiting in line at SF city hall. He called a florist and they agreed to do it. He told them to deliver to any couple -- it didn't matter who -- standing in line to get married, with his blessing. The card will read simply "With love, from Minneapolis, Minnesota."
Once they understood, they were very touched and thought it was a great idea. He told another co-worker who did the same thing. And now we want to start a movement. Wouldn't that be cool if people from all over the country, gay, straight and otherwise, started sending flowers to the people waiting in line to get married.
Call it it Flowers from the Heartland. Call it whatever you want, but help us get this off the ground. Call Flowers on the Bay at 888-217-9119 and order a bouquet to be delivered tomorrow at noon. And Tell all of your friends to do it.
Because straight or gay, we believe and we know many people who believe, support and celebrate the right to marriage. And we'd like to show it. We'd like to see all of the people standing in line with flowers of support from all over the country.
PS. Flowers on the Bay seems like a small shop and might get overwhelmed if this really did catch on. I have a feeling that any Bay-Area flower shop, perhaps even doing FTD through your local florist, could work.
Gee, I wonder how much a dozen black roses costs?
Gee, I wonder how much a dozen black roses costs?
Since the law now appears to be whatever you want, and since I am a narcissist deeply in love with myself, can I go to California and marry myself? Otherwise that would imply discrimination against singly love enable people. I want my rights upheld!
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