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<p>SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNN) -- The challenge to the legality of San Francisco's same-sex marriage licenses moved to another courtroom Tuesday afternoon after a judge postponed an earlier hearing until Friday.</p> <p>San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ronald Quidachay said there was confusion over the timeliness of the filing by Campaign for California Families and over two different versions of the complaint.</p>

<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A judge delayed until at least Friday a ruling on whether to block San Francisco from issuing same-sex marriage licenses.</p> <p>The ruling occurred during the first of two such hearings Tuesday. Another judge was scheduled to hear a similar case in the afternoon.</p>

<p>SAN FRANCISCO — The first of two judges to listen to objections to gay marriage in San Francisco delayed until at least Friday whether to block the city from continuing to issue same-sex marriage licenses.</p> <p>The second judge will take up a different petition Tuesday afternoon.</p>

Christian Coalition Calls for Citizens to Protest Illegal Marriages Taking Place in San Francisco with Calls, Faxes, E-mails 2/17/04 4:56:00 AM To: National and Assignment desks Contact: Michele Ammons of Christian Coalition of America, 202-549-6257 or 202-479-6900 News Advisory: -- Citizens Need to Flood Gov. Schwarzenegger's, Mayor Newsom's Offices with Calls, Faxes, Emails and Protest Illegal Marriages Taking Place in San Francisco Christian Coalition of America strongly opposes the illegal marriages that are taking place in San Francisco. Mayor Gavin Newsom is allowing marriages between homosexual couples that are illegal in the state of California. On March 7 2000, the...

<p>The city of San Francisco has issued more than 2,000 "marriage" licenses to homosexual couples over the past four days, an act of civil disobedience that attorneys for two traditional-values groups will seek to end in court today.</p> <p>San Francisco officials have vowed to keep issuing licenses until told to stop by the city's top law-enforcement officer. The licenses are invalid under a voter-passed state initiative defining marriage as between a man and a woman.</p>

Even in S.F., religions still divided over gay marriageCatholics, Muslims steadfast over ban on same-sex unionsDon Lattin, Chronicle Religion WriterFebruary 14, 2004  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/02/14/MNGHO5165I1.DTL  Ariel Zitoun of San Francisco protests at City Hall, where hundreds of same-sex couples got married. Chronicle photo by Liz Mangelsdorf   The most vocal response to Newsom's same-sex marriage move came from a group of San Francisco Muslims. About 70 Muslims from the Al-Sabeel Masjid Noor Al Islam mosque on Golden Gate Avenue assembled on the City Hall steps Friday to protest same-sex marriage. The group approached the steps quietly, some holding signs quoting from the...

Schwarzenegger urged to arrest S.F. mayorGroup says Newsom should face prison for false marriage licenses Posted: February 17, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com A Christian legal group wants California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to arrest the mayor of San Francisco for issuing nearly 2,000 marriage licenses to homosexual couples in defiance of state law. The American Family Association Center for Law and Policy called Mayor Gavin Newsom's decision to oversee the nation's first officially sanctioned same-sex weddings Thursday "an arrogant stunt" proving "the radical homosexual movement will trample the rights of all who stand in their way." The AFA's law center wrote...

A Christian law firm is calling for the arrest of the mayor of San Francisco in the wake of his decision last week that has resulted in hundreds of same-sex marriage licenses being issued. Despite the threat of that lawsuit, the City by the Bay continued throughout the weekend to grant licenses to homosexual couples who waited in long lines. Steve Crampton, a spokesman for the American Family Association Center for Law & Policy (CLP), calls Mayor Gavin Newsom's move "an arrogant stunt [that] proves the radical homosexual movement will trample the rights of all who stand in their way."...

<p>It was only his 12th day as mayor of San Francisco, but Gavin Newsom decided that night -- the very night he attended President Bush's State of the Union address in Washington, D.C. -- that he was going to defy California law.</p> <p>And turn the nation on its ear.</p>

O.K. I apologize if this is an abuse of the forum, but hopefully a California Freeper can help out. First; what authority does the Mayor of San Francisco have over the County Clerk? There is both a City of San Francisco and a County of San Fransciso, I'm told. Does the Mayor of San Francisco exercise executive authority over the County of San Francisco? Second: what happens to the completed marriage licenses once they are filled out and the marriage ceremony takes place? What authority enters them into a database? Is that a County database or a State database? From...

<p>Hi, I'm Bill O'Reilly.  Thanks for watching us tonight. Another attempt to circumvent the law in San Francisco.</p> <p>That is the subject of this evening's "Talking Points Memo." Yesterday, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom (search) sanctioned 87 marriages in the city by the Bay, causing a national uproar.  Scenes like these were played all over the world, making pro gay marriage people very happy and those opposed disturbed to say the least.</p>

<p>For the moment, gay and lesbian couples in San Francisco may find it easier to get a civil marriage license than the full blessings of a church wedding.</p> <p>Debates over same-sex marriage have fractured the nation's religious landscape in recent decades, and San Francisco, despite its gay-friendly reputation, is no exception.</p>

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Demand for same-sex marriage licenses has been so great that on Sunday officials turned away hundreds of gay and lesbian couples lined up outside City Hall, saying they simply didn't have the time or resources to meet all the requests. San Francisco authorities calculated they could process 400 licenses during special weekend hours - but on Saturday they granted 600 licenses and performed 270 weddings by late afternoon. Then officials gave numbers to 320 couples securing them places in line for Sunday. After quickly distributing another 80 numbers Sunday morning, disappointed couples lined up around the...

<p>San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom freely admits that his gay marriage move threw "a bomb" into his conservative and ethnic base -- not to mention a monkey wrench into national Democratic politics.</p> <p>But in the hard reality of San Francisco politics, his aides are chalking it up as a big win.</p>

San Francisco - They wore jeans and tuxedos, wedding gowns and African robes, and arrived with Valentine's roses and cameras and aging relatives. Arnold Gonzalez and Ricardo Garcia put on matching Oakland Raiders sweatshirts, since not even their wedding could make them forget their Raiders loyalty. Angela Sasuly and Denise Hatfield pretty much wept through their entire service, starting with the part about "solemn vow." On separate cell phones, John Kussmann and Rodney Von Jaeger broke the news to their families simultaneously: "We just got married."

It’s difficult to maintain an attitude of arrogant superiority when entire million square-foot office buildings stand nearly vacant and are sold for half of their original construction cost, when local unemployment rates remain well above national averages, as the rest of the economy picks up speed, and when downtown sidewalks reek of urine and feces, courtesy of the homeless beneficiaries of America’s most extensive support infrastructure. San Francisco, “the city which knows how” (to sneer at lesser burgs, unblessed with scenery, climate, sex and pot clubs, and far left politics), is pulling out all the stops to lure new business...

<p>It was only his 12th day as mayor of San Francisco, but Gavin Newsom decided that night -- the very night he attended President Bush's State of the Union address in Washington, D.C. -- that he was going to defy California law.</p> <p>And turn the nation on its ear.</p>

SAN FRANCISCO - Gay and lesbian couples from across the country answered this city's Valentine's Day invitation to wed in an unprecedented spree of same-sex marriages that has challenged California law and sent conservative groups scrambling for court intervention. Hundreds of people lined up Saturday outside City Hall to secure marriage licenses — and then take each other as "spouse for life" in brief vows that have given San Francisco's seat of government the feel of a Las Vegas wedding chapel. As passing drivers honked and strangers passed out roses, those waiting hours in line cheered couples who emerged from...

As same-sex couples tied the knot in San Francisco, "My first reaction was they have lost their minds," the Palmdale Republican said. City officials in San Francisco started marrying same-sex couples Thursday at the behest of Mayor Gavin Newsom, and the civil unions were expected to continue throughout the weekend as lines formed outside City Hall. Calling the unions a "sideshow," Knight said he only hopes the same-sex couples realize that their marriages are not legal. "It's absolutely illegal. Those departments do not have the authority to change California law," he said. In March 2000, two-thirds of California voters passed...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The couples began lining up outside City Hall at 4 a.m., four hours before the marriage license bureau opened. By 8 a.m., more than 50 couples were waiting for the new gender-neutral licenses that would allow same-sex couples to marry. By 9 a.m., there were 100 couples; by 11 a.m., 200 couples. Some had flown in from New York or had driven all night from such places as Los Angeles, Portland, Ore., and Palm Springs, Calif. Licenses in hand, gay couples were exchanging vows all over City Hall -- on the grand steps of the rotunda, upstairs,...