[Tempest]

Oh please. Do you think that running of half cocked and throwing the mayor in jail would've put a stop to everything?!

DO You?!?!

NO! It would have just been the start of things and the mayor would suddenly find himself elevated to the status of a political martyr! Not only him. But so would his cause.

Do you remember how the Texas state legislators were proudly labeled as "rebels" by the media when they flew the coup during the states redistricting plan?!

Are you all so naive as to think that such blunt action will solve this issue?! The only thing it would achieve is to escalate the issue.

Personally I think that the governor just needs to to have whatever state office that handles marriage registration declare the marriages null and void. Because from my understanding the City of SF took it upon themselves to alter state marriage certificates in order to allow gay couples to get married.

[novacation]

You are right that Arnie needs to make sure that it is all thrown out. We'll see if he gets it done. True that a quiet voiding of this garbage would be best. But the mayor of SF needs to be charged with a crime.

[TomasUSMC]

such blunt action will solve this issue! it would escalate the issue - this this issue needs to be escalated. Of course the Rinos don't want to escalate the issue of homos because they like the Governor, like homos, don't see anything wrong with homos, and want to invite into the Big GOP tent lots and lots of homos.

Escalate it. Bring it to a Boil. Turn up the heat.
Homosexuality is wrong and it needs to be shut down.
IF you like the homos - join the democrats, they are in love with homos.

Its Litmus Test Time - No Homos No Abortion

[spacewarp]

It's real simple to stop this stuff. And Arnold will have to do several things that will require a backbone to do them. He's got one, let's just see if he'll use it. The liberal press would turn the mayor into a martyr overnight if he was arrested. Hell, he could be arrested at 4:30 eastern and the nation would have the word martyr on the evening news at 6:30. So, don't arrest him. It's bad politically. It puts him on the same level as MLK or other civil rights issues. Marriage is not a right, it's a privilege.

1) Find every statute he's in violation of and the county clerk's or the city's office that's granting the licenses and find what the fines are. Through executive order, issue fines to them personally for every day they continue. If the gay lobby decides to pony up, they could pay off the debt in CA without worrying about a tax increase.

2) Have the state office that handles those licenses hold them. Don't issue, don't reject. Just hold. They will get more and more frustrated. Once they try to get them back, they will have to acknowledge that they violated the law, and then reject them.

3) Issue an executive order that will order for fines to be imposed on any press organization that uses their editorial influence to, in collusion with the now disgraced mayor, encourage people to flaunt or break the law.

If we make this an issue about fines instead of prison time, they don't get to be martyrs. They only get to be in debt. It steals their issue and makes them pay for their transgressions.