Faulty forms to void same-sex marriages? (CA won't honor forms)

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[BurbankKarl]

The legality of same-sex marriages in San Francisco has a missing persons' problem of sorts – the lack of a "bride" and "groom."

A state official says California will not accept thousands of marriage licenses granted to homosexual couples because the city changed the language on the official applications to delete the gender-specific terms.

"There is a statewide form that every county has to use for marriage applications," Nicole Kasabian Evans, a spokeswoman for California Health and Human Services, told Reuters.

"If we receive application forms that are different from the single form used throughout the state, we will not accept them."

Evans' agency certifies all applications for marriage into state records, and she says forms using different terms would be returned to the city if San Francisco submits them.

Nancy Lafaro, director of the San Francisco County Clerk's office, admitted several changes were made to the license applications for homosexuals.

"For example, instead of saying bride or groom, the form in San Francisco says applicant one and applicant two," she told Reuters.

"Unmarried man" and "unmarried woman" had also been switched to "unmarried individuals."

Meanwhile, license applications are still being issued by city officials as court challenges are on hold until Friday.

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[jra]

What a breath of fresh air.

Thank God when someone (and they will) challenges this in federal court, and appeals it, we can count on the appeals court out there to

Uhm, nevermind.

[syriacus]

Sounds good.

[syriacus]

Maybe some enterprising lawyer can convince a pseudly-wed couple to sue the City of San Francisco for perpetrating a fraud on them.

[BurbankKarl]

Neil and Bob on the Hershey Highway


>>Oh HELL, let's all go to the BATH HOUSE and have the reception.

[FreedomCalls]

It's a better argument than the "semi-colon instead of the word 'or' argument" used by the judge to refuse to halt the marriages.

San Francisco Superior Court Judge James Warren said he could not rule on a motion brought by the Proposition 22 Legal Defense and Education Fund because of a punctuation error.

The group wants the judge to stop the city from issuing more marriage licenses to same-sex couples and invalidate the gay marriages that have taken place.

The judge said the group appears to be entitled to a stay, eventually. But he would not halt the marriages until the group writes its proposed court order correctly. It all came down to a semicolon.

"The way you've written this, it has a semicolon where it should have the word 'or,'" Warren said. "I don't have the authority to issue it under these circumstances."

[Post Toasties]

Say, isn't tampering with legal forms a felony? Maybe California can toss the clown who did that to the San Fran marriage licenses into the hoosegow.

[onyx]

The entire thang is an abomination. Completely illegal and it would be laughable but for CA's judiciary.

[.38sw]

I think someone posted the statute somewhere on this forum. It's certainly illegal to tamper with such documents. Now, who is going to arrest Gavin Newsome?

[concerned about politics]

"If we receive application forms that are different from the single form used throughout the state, we will not accept them."

Why accept them at all? They're fraudulent anyway. The people of California voted against homosexual marriage (and they vote).
Sodom California is asking for it. That big one is coming.
"Come out of her my people, so you do not receive of her plagues."

[FreedomCalls]

I now pronounce you ; Colon and Semi-Colon!

Oh wait! I used a hyphenated word when I should have used a single word. My post is therefore invalid! The Free Republic server will refuse to disseminate it now.

[Bogey78O]

Hmmm...perhaps this is Newsome's idea to tax stupidity?

[concerned about politics]

So many people object to homosexual marriage (mostly because the homos forced it on them against the will of their conscience), according to quantum physicists, mass conscienceless will take out California.
According to them, it would eliminate it somehow from the holographic grid.

[3catsanadog]

Unbelievable. The gay marriage licences have white out all over them, but this snooty nit-picker is throwing the petition back in the faces of the Legal and Education Fund over a semi colon. What did he think he was supposed to be doing? Grading an essay?

Lemme guess - Judge Warren is a liberal.

[concerned about politics]

A state official says California will not accept thousands of marriage licenses granted to homosexual

Now they have to be lawless all over again. What a fiasco! Only in Babylon California!

[syriacus]

Hmmm...perhaps this is Newsome's idea to tax stupidity?

And just wait until the pseudly-wed couples find out that some Democrats want to enforce a marriage penalty on them.

[concerned about politics]

At least they'll never get hit with child support. Unnaturals can't breed. It's like trying to cross a goat with a crow.

[syriacus]

In 2000, Barney Frank voted against eliminating the marriage penalty tax.