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And one same-sex couple from Fresno who married in San Francisco says Autry is misusing his bully pulpit as mayor. "I think he's a bubba," says Adams Holland, a Fresno restaurateur and designer whose partner is Tim Woods. "I think he's acting foolishly. I don't think he quite understands his role in the community."
Autry says he has received unprecedented "hate rhetoric" from "strident" gays since he started planning Sunday's ceremony. But he does not consider them representative of their community, and he aims most of his rhetoric away from them. His target is Newsom.
In Autry's analysis, the San Francisco mayor forced him to do something.
"By going into [San Francisco] City Hall and marrying people of the same sex illegally ... what went out was a challenge to all mayors to declare their positions," Autry says.

"We're all going to, unfortunately, have to make our positions known on this."