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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 Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Bill Lockyer Friday insisting the mayor not only violated civil law, but criminal law as well. Schwarzenegger and...

<p>Friendly sex shops. Peet's. Dog parks. Stellar restaurants. Superlative tattoo artists. Fabulous weather. Unparalleled natural beauty. Organic foods. Fewer SUVs, more Priuses. Mission burritos. An overwhelming anti-Schwarzenegger sentiment. Sushi. Bush never visits.</p> <p>There are things that make you happy to live in San Francisco, truly grateful, along with plenty of things that make you hyper-aware that you live in the country's most progressive open-minded convoluted messed-up liberal bubble, for both good and ill.</p>

WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) said Wednesday he was "troubled" by gay weddings in San Francisco and by legal decisions in Massachusetts that could clear the way for same-sex marriage. But he declined to say whether he is any closer to backing a constitutional ban on such vows. "I have watched carefully what's happening in San Francisco, where licenses were being issued, even though the law states otherwise," Bush said. "I have consistently stated that I'll support law to protect marriage between a man and a woman. Obviously these events are influencing my decision." "I am watching...

Is San Francisco Judge James Warren a judge or English professor? To allow gay marriages to proceed, because of a typo error is beyond comprehension. Whatever happened to just erasing or using white-out to correct typos? To allow a misplaced semicolon to take priority above enforcing the law...is ludicrous. Hopefully, before the complaint is filed again, the infamous misplaced “semicolon” will be in the right place. It’s beyond me why a group called “Prop 22" has to file a complaint against a mayor who is breaking the law (in the first place), allowing illegal gay marriages to be performed. Do...

California State Senator Tom McClintock will be on with Michael Savage at 5:30PM PST and then on the O'Reilly Factor to discuss the marriage licenses being issued in SF.

One of the conditions of living in the People’s Republic of San Francisco is a constant feeling of isolation from the rest of the state and country. Indeed, San Franciscans often joke about seceding from the union, when for all intents and purposes, they already have. For years, the city’s government has refused to comply with a variety of federal and state laws, including immigration, national security, and drug enforcement. So when San Francisco’s new mayor Gavin Newsom decreed this past week that gay marriage would now be legal, it shouldn’t have come as much of a surprise. Newsom’s announcement...

This story is taken from Opinion at sacbee.com. Peter Schrag: Gay marriage: Gavin Newsom's gift to BushBy Peter Schrag - (Published February 18, 2004) Pollster Stanley Greenberg was in Berkeley the other day flogging his new book, "The Two Americas: Our Current Political Deadlock and How to Break It." Greenberg, political adviser to President Clinton and a list of other political leaders on the liberal side of the spectrum - from Al Gore to Tony Blair, Nelson Mandela and Gerhard Schroeder - believes that the sharp and nearly even political split in America reflects, more than anything else, a deep...

<p>February 18, 2004 -- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last night called for San Francisco to terminate its ongoing gay-marriage marathon.</p> <p>"Californians spoke on the issue of same-sex marriage when they overwhelmingly approved California's law that defines marriage as being between a man and a woman. I support that law, and I encourage San Francisco officials to obey that law," the former actor said.</p>

LAW OF THE LANDSemicolon keeps same-sex marriages going 2nd judge delays ruling, cites punctuation error in plaintiff's petition Posted: February 17, 20049:13 p.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Traditional-family defenders sought an immediate halt to San Francisco's unprecedented issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples, but judges in two separate cases delayed taking action today, citing court procedures. Same-sex couples line up outside San Francisco City Hall Monday. (Photo: San Jose Mercury News) At the second hearing, this afternoon, San Francisco Superior Court Judge James Warren told plaintiffs their argument likely would succeed but rejected their petition because of a misplaced semicolon. The...

<p>The leaders, including top Republican homosexual rights advocates who speak often with senior Bush administration officials, also said the White House likely will remain silent until Democratic presidential front-runner Sen. John Kerry stops flip-flopping on the contentious issue.</p> <p>"The reasonable political minds at the White House have decided that there's no reason to say anything right now," said Mark Mead, political director for Log Cabin Republicans, a national homosexual group.</p>

A San Francisco judge refused to order the city to immediately stop issuing marriage licences to gay couples, but said a conservative group demanding the halt had a sound argument. Judge James Warren said that the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) had a legal basis for its complaint, but he did not specify when the city would have to stop the weddings and postponed the hearing until March 29. The move effectively allows the ultra-liberal city to continue its unprecedented same-sex marriages that have already seen 2,500 official unions sealed since Thursday. "There is no stay," Matt Dorsey, spokesman for the...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge said San Francisco might be violating the law by issuing marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples, but he declined Tuesday to order an immediate halt and the mayor said the weddings would continue. A conservative group had asked Judge James Warren to immediately stop the weddings and void the 2,636 same-sex marriages performed at City Hall since Thursday. Instead, Warren told the city to "cease and desist" or return to court March 29 to explain why they haven't. The nonbinding order frustrated conservatives who also failed earlier in the day to persuade another judge...

Officials in San Francisco are engaged in an act of civil disobedience of stunning hubris. Buoyed by a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling that ordered the legislature in that state to allow homosexuals to marry, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom last week ordered city officials to begin issuing marriage licenses to homosexual couples, in open contravention of state law. In the first four days, the city issued more than 2,000 such licenses.But voters in California rejected gay marriage by nearly a two-to-one margin just four years ago, when 61 percent voted in favor of Proposition 22, a ballot initiative that...

These conservative groups are just stupid, do you think you can go across the street from the marriage ceremony and get a ruling you want. Please Find another judge that won't be looking for semi colons and putting off hearings until March 29th.

More Benefits from Same-Sex Marriage: Retailers Joining in the Celebration Too 2/17/04 4:39:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Mitch Goldstone of 30 Minute Photos Etc., 949-474-7654 or goldstone@30minphotos.com IRVINE, Calif, Feb. 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Every marriage license nuptial is valid at htpp://www.30minphotos.com for 25 percent off all online orders from digital cameras. While legislators may challenge the legality of same-sex marriage, one national online photo retailer is celebrating the thousands of newly wedded couples in San Francisco by extending the identical savings afforded to all newlywed couples. If you have wedding photo images as part of your...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Conservative family groups asked two courts on Tuesday to halt a flood of City Hall weddings between same-sex couples that have made San Francisco "Ground Zero" for the controversial gay marriage movement. The city's assessor-record's office said that about 2,500 gay and lesbian couples have been married since Mayor Gavin Newsom ordered city officials to defy state law and grant same-sex marriage licenses last Thursday. The bulk of those licenses came over the Valentine's Day weekend when City Hall remained open so that more couples could exchange wedding vows. Many city workers volunteered without pay and...

There is a new political development in America that should frighten every law abiding citizen in this country. That is the growing disregard for people who follow the law and play by the rules, and the rewarding of those who do not. Where I live in California we have two concurrent stories going on that demonstrate clearly what is at issue. The first one involves the Mayor of San Francisco who, though sworn to uphold the laws and the Constitution of California in his just taken oath of office, now allows and instructs city government to break those laws. Under...

<p>SAN FRANCISCO — The second of two judges ruling on San Francisco's wave of gay marriages was listening Tuesday afternoon to testimony on the city's issuance of same-sex marriage licenses.</p> <p>The judge presiding over that second hearing, scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. EST (2 p.m. PST), was considering a different petition than the other judge began looking at earlier Tuesday.</p>

<p>SAN FRANCISCO - Two judges delayed taking any action Tuesday to shut down San Francisco's same-sex wedding spree, citing court procedures as they temporarily rebuffed conservative groups enraged that the city's liberal politicians had already married almost 2,400 gay and lesbian couples.</p>