Posted on 02/03/2003 11:17:58 AM PST by Hat-Trick
BY TOM SHAW
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
This Valentine's Day at least six same-sex couples will walk into the Douglas County Clerk's Office seeking marriage licenses.
The couples don't expect to get them.
Their action will be part of a nationwide effort to push for legalizing same-sex unions. Only Vermont recognizes such unions.
The action is being led by the Metropolitan Community Church, which the group says has more than 46,000 members in 22 countries.
Same-sex couples will ask for marriage licenses in several states on Valentine's Day.
The Douglas County couples will be led by the Rev. Barbara Sagat, pastor of Omaha's Metropolitan Community Church, and her partner, the Rev. Sharon Stover, pastor of the Sioux Falls, S.D., church.
Nebraska does not recognize same-sex unions. In 2000, voters approved an amendment to the State Constitution banning same-sex marriages by a margin of 70 percent to 30 percent.
"Our intent is to do this every Valentine's Day until there is equality," Sagat said. "Our relationships really do suffer not having legal status."
The couples want the same rights that marriage provides others, she said, including power of attorney for making medical decisions for a partner.
Sheri Larsen, assistant to County Clerk Tom Cavanaugh, said the office declined to comment.
"We think this is a state issue," she said, adding, "The marriage license laws are governed by state statute, and that's what our office follows."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't a person confer power of attorney on anyone of their choosing?
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They "Don't ask, don't tell" until they work their way into prominence, and then spring it on us with something stupid like this.
All queers move to Vermont - apparently they're happy to have you (no pun intended).
....there was a thread on FR a month or two ago about a gay couple married in Virgina, getting a divorce. They don't want to have pay child support and or alimony!!!!!!
Sex, torture and erotic electrification in America's 'gay' churches
Liberals took the "Saint" out, because it sounded too religious. It wouldn't be politically correct to explain the real origins of st. Valentine's day in a public school.
Years later, thanks to Eve Ensler, the "kollege kommunity," and furry-legged feminists, Valentine's day degenerated into "V-Day." Apparently they forgot (or never heard of, or didn't care)about the REAL V-Day, and seized the opportunity to to turn a beautiful way of expresing love and friendship into excuse #456,789 to hate men.
Now the Homosexuals have taken it one step further like they are trying to do, in some respects, to Halloween. And that is, take it to the perverted, sexualized extreme. Halloween is big in the gay community. It's a chance to dress up, party, and then have anonymous sex with as many partners as possible. Now they are trying to turn Valentine's day into a day where you dress up, go to dinner, give/receive a box of chocolates/candy/flowers, and...well you know the rest.
It seems to me that their Valentine's Day agenda is yet another attempt to destroy our culture, and rebuild it in their twisted, perverted image.
How nice, a tradition falls into place. Just think how much more fun the flowers, candy, and dinner will be after the annual tossing from the county clerks' office.
You mean the "Church" that denies scripture and promotes the practice of perversion?
I understand the religious arguments against homosexual marrige, but what would the secular/legal argument be?
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