S.F.: Gay divorce capital

The profit potential from San Francisco gay marriage licenses, the way they saw it, was a veritable Golconda; something for lawyers like the California Gold Rush of 1849. ....I bet some of those just married these past weeks are looking for divorce lawyers already!!!!!!!!

1 posted on 03/09/2004 4:53:05 PM PST by GrandMoM

There was a good article on how Gay Marriage will be a financial train wreck for gays, especially gaay men.

Reason is gay men are attracted to other men way outside their social/economic status. Thus huge alimony awards will be forth coming

2 posted on 03/09/2004 4:55:24 PM PST by raloxk

3 posted on 03/09/2004 4:55:42 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)

If queer marriage is ever legitimized (God forbid) I plan to get rich off of it......QUEER DIVORCE COURT....I plan to produce and syndicate it. It'll be huge, I tell ya! HUGE!

4 posted on 03/09/2004 4:58:55 PM PST by clintonh8r (Vietnam veteran against John Kerry.)

The homos don't want to get married. They don't want all of the obligations and potential liabilities that it implies. All they want is for others to be forced into condoning their foolish choices.

5 posted on 03/09/2004 5:00:23 PM PST by GulliverSwift (Keep the <a href="http://www.johnkerry.com/">gigolo</a> out of the White House!)

6 posted on 03/09/2004 5:01:20 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to be managed by central planning.)

Reason is gay men are attracted to other men way outside their social/economic status. Thus huge alimony awards will be forth coming.

Apparently a lot of gay older men who are wealthy prefer other men who are much younger and less established than themselves.

7 posted on 03/09/2004 5:04:29 PM PST by independentmind

I can't wait till they start "Gay Divorce Court" on TV. That will be a bloody war!

8 posted on 03/09/2004 5:04:42 PM PST by Mike Darancette (General - Alien Army of the Right (AAOTR))

LOL. With "Queen" Latifah as the judge?

9 posted on 03/09/2004 5:05:28 PM PST by quark

10 posted on 03/09/2004 5:06:21 PM PST by atomicpossum (Fun pics in my profile)

....would the judge be homosexual or straight?????

11 posted on 03/09/2004 5:09:47 PM PST by GrandMoM (how could I not have hope in JESUS....MY WOUNDS WERE HEALED BY HIS WOUNDS-Mel Gibson)

The levity of the doomed has no equal.

12 posted on 03/09/2004 5:11:31 PM PST by WhiteyAppleseed (The hell with the cheese, let's get out of this trap.--a mouse)

....I wonder how many in their haste to be one of the first to marry, forgot about the pre-nup??????

13 posted on 03/09/2004 5:13:07 PM PST by GrandMoM (how could I not have hope in JESUS....MY WOUNDS WERE HEALED BY HIS WOUNDS-Mel Gibson)

....I think back when that movie was made GAY meant HAPPY!!!!

14 posted on 03/09/2004 5:14:11 PM PST by GrandMoM (how could I not have hope in JESUS....MY WOUNDS WERE HEALED BY HIS WOUNDS-Mel Gibson)

I think the judge would have to be a cross-dressing transsexual bisexual. Think ratings!

15 posted on 03/09/2004 5:16:25 PM PST by clintonh8r (Vietnam veteran against John Kerry.)

The prevailing view was that the boundaries of existing divorce law could be stretched, and in the stretching there is nothing but profit.

So bully for them lawyers, to capitalize on this! But there is more to come...

There's been talk that allowing gay marriages will open a Pandoras' box of problems within our society. Gay divorce is one of them. But I offer the following observation.

Gays want to knock down the traditional definition of marriage - that being an act between a man and a woman. If that is done, then why not a marriage between a brother and sister?

Gays want their domestic partners to have access to the benefits currently enjoyed by heterosexual marriage partners. Well, what about an adult brother and sister pair, living together and taking care of each other in their later years? No sex is taking place (well, one would hope not). But they are domestic partners. Why shouldn't a sister of a working man enjoy the benefits accorded to a spouse in other households? If gays get their way on this issue, then a brother-sister pair is being discriminated against!

Then there are sister-sister pairs, brother-brother pairs, man-dog arrangements. Why can't they also get married? Like I stated previously, a Pandoras' box of problems within our society. Sickening.

16 posted on 03/09/2004 5:19:58 PM PST by roadcat

I must be one of the few straight white Christian males who thinks gay marriage would "serve them right". If nothing is worse than a lover scorned, wait until you introduce the psychopathology inherent in homosexuality into it. If I were a divorce lawyer I'd be picking out my Gulfstream already.

Sometimes the very worst thing you can do to someone is to give them exactly what they want.

17 posted on 03/09/2004 5:21:37 PM PST by JusPasenThru (I think we're all bozos on this bus.)

To: Mike Darancette

you better hurry up!!!

Iowa Judge Approves Gay Divorce
Friday, December 12, 2003

SIOUX CITY, Iowa — A county judge approved a divorce for a lesbian couple who obtained a civil union in Vermont, saying he didn't realize he was signing a settlement for a same-sex couple, but ultimately decided to let his decision stand.

Iowa is one of 37 states whose law bans same-sex marriage (search).
State Sen. Neal Schuerer accused Judge Jeffrey Neary on Thursday of "judicial activism at its worst."
"The judge was wrong. He should have backed away and sent them back to Vermont," said Schuerer, a Republican. "If judges want to flaunt the law like this, I can guarantee you we will move to recall them."
Neary, a district judge for Woodbury County, said he routinely signs divorces and doesn't check the participants' gender. When he discovered what had happened last month, said he confronted Dennis Ringgenberg, attorney for one of the women.
"I said this is probably going to be a controversial matter at some point in time," Neary said, "and he smiled and said, 'You're right."'
Neary, who was appointed in January by Gov. Tom Vilsack (search), said he had the opportunity to change his mind but decided against it — the divorce was permissible, he said, under a constitutional clause that requires states to recognize laws of other states.
"If I'm presented with a dispute that has to be resolved in my courtroom, or is before me that affects the rights of Iowans, I feel an obligation to solve that problem," Neary said. "I don't believe I'm recognizing same-sex marriage."
The women, Kimberly Brown, 31, and Jennifer S. Perez, 26, who have Sioux City (search) addresses, were joined in a civil union March 25, 2002, in Bolton, Vt.
Judges in Texas and Connecticut have rejected requests for civil union divorces, said University of Iowa law professor Ann Estin.
"You can go to Vermont and have a civil union, but you can't, until now, go to another state and have a civil union divorce," she said.
Daniel Bray, an Iowa City lawyer and chairman of the Family Law Section of the Iowa State Bar Association, said the law is clear that marriage can only exist between a man and woman in Iowa.
"A divorce can be entered only when there is a valid marriage," he said.
At the same time, Bray said, Neary acted appropriately — in this case, he signed a settled agreement, and it wasn't incumbent upon him to determine the participants' gender.
"There are no floodgates being opened here. The issue here is that our law must constantly adapt to change in the family. Iowa has been a forerunner in making legal adaptations to legal challenges involving the family. "

18 posted on 03/09/2004 5:24:54 PM PST by GrandMoM (how could I not have hope in JESUS....MY WOUNDS WERE HEALED BY HIS WOUNDS-Mel Gibson)

OOhhhhhhhhhhh that good thinking!!!!!!!

19 posted on 03/09/2004 5:26:05 PM PST by GrandMoM (how could I not have hope in JESUS....MY WOUNDS WERE HEALED BY HIS WOUNDS-Mel Gibson)

QUEER DIVORCE COURT....I plan to produce and syndicate it. It'll be huge, I tell ya! HUGE!

Better than that I got dibs on a sitcom plot about two stright guys that marry for the benefits. Hijinks ensue.

20 posted on 03/09/2004 5:27:16 PM PST by Mike Darancette (General - Alien Army of the Right (AAOTR))

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