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Rosie O'Donnell Weds Longtime Girlfriend
Associated Press ^ | 02/26/2004 | Lisa Leff

Posted on 02/26/2004 3:02:12 PM PST by Therapist

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Rosie O'Donnell married her longtime girlfriend Thursday, taking what she called a proud stand for gay civil rights in the city where more than 3,300 other same-sex couples have tied the knot since Feb. 12.

"I want to thank the city of San Francisco for this amazing stance the mayor has taken for all the people here, not just us but all the thousands and thousands of loving, law-abiding couples," the former talk show host, holding a large bouquet of purple and yellow flowers, said after she and Kelli Carpenter emerged from their brief ceremony inside Mayor Gavin Newsom's office.

Earlier Thursday, O'Donnell announced her wedding plans on ABC's "Good Morning America," just two days after President Bush called for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

She said the president's call is what inspired her to come to San Francisco, where city officials continue to perform same-sex weddings even as state courts are considering the legality of those marriages.

"I think the actions of the president are, in my opinion, the most vile and hateful words ever spoken by a sitting president," O'Donnell, who lives in the New York City region, said on the program. "I am stunned and I'm horrified.

"I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco. And I hope they put more people on the steps to marry as many people as show up. And I hope everyone shows up."

O'Donnell and Carpenter, who have four children together, walked hand in hand down the grand marble staircase in the rotunda to thunderous applause from hundreds of spectators who came to witness the city's first celebrity same-sex wedding. O'Donnell was wearing a powder-blue blazer, black shirt and black pants; Carpenter wore a gray pantsuit.

As the San Francisco's Gay Men's Chorus serenaded the couple with a few bars of "Going to the Chapel," O'Donnell smiled and said, "We really did. We got married."

O'Donnell said she decided to marry Carpenter, a former dancer and marketing director at Nickelodeon, during her recent trial in New York over the now-defunct Rosie magazine. During the case, she referred to Carpenter as her wife.

"We applied for spousal privilege and were denied it by the state. As a result, everything that I said to Kelli, every letter that I wrote her, every e-mail, every correspondence and conversation was entered into the record," O'Donnell said. "After the trial, I am now and will forever be a total proponent of gay marriage."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
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To: Therapist
Somebody needs to inform Mr. O'Bese that, aside from the swish-hips community and a few criminal seditionists, NOBODY ELSE SEES YOU AS ANYTHING OTHER THAN A FAT, UNWED DYKE!!!!! AUUUUGH!!! AUUUUGH!!!! </Sam Kinison>
61 posted on 02/26/2004 4:15:05 PM PST by Viking2002 (I think; therefore, I Freep............)
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To: NonValueAdded
I wonder if there is a pre-nup? Just wait until one of these gay "marriages" breaks up for a "couple" with substantial assets and one asserts community-property. What is the defense? "Oh, no, it wasn't a legal marriage under state law and there is no way I should give up half my loot."

Now we are getting to the real reason the Rat Party, the party for lawyers, is pushing gay marriage. What they really want is gay divorce, which should be quite lucrative for the scumbags.

62 posted on 02/26/2004 4:18:19 PM PST by Moonman62
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To: Therapist

Honeymoon in Vegas.


63 posted on 02/26/2004 4:19:49 PM PST by Fintan (Someday we''ll look back on this and plow into a parked car...)
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To: Therapist

64 posted on 02/26/2004 4:20:18 PM PST by maggief
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To: Therapist


65 posted on 02/26/2004 4:21:58 PM PST by jaz.357 (Liberals fund the problems they seek to solve so that they can justify taxing you to fund them.)
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To: longtermmemmory
Carpenter, a former dancer and marketing director at Nickelodeon

Funny how these people so often want to get jobs related to children huh.

66 posted on 02/26/2004 4:24:31 PM PST by gg188
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To: alloysteel
But if the fine print on the marriage license is read, she STILL isn't truthfully legally wed.

I passed by there a couple times around noon while it was going on (I work in downtown SF). Real sick media circus going on.

What I'm wondering is the following. City of SF changed the marriage license to not read "husband and wife", "man and woman", etc. So they are not legally binding documents that the State of California approved. (And SF is breaking the law by using bogus altered official documents.) But what about regular couples who are getting married at this time. Lets say Joe Blow and Ima Lover are a man and woman and want to get married at SF City Hall this week. Is the City of SF using the doctored document, or are they using the offical State document?

If they're using the doctored document for all weddings (probably), then the heterosexual couple may have problems down the road when they are deemed not legally wedded. I believe more lawsuits are forthcoming.

67 posted on 02/26/2004 4:28:28 PM PST by roadcat
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To: Cinnamon Girl
For it being her wedding day, she sure isn't beaming...
68 posted on 02/26/2004 4:29:00 PM PST by technochick99
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To: maggiefluffs
OMG! That's it for you, buddy! I'm hitting the abuse button!
69 posted on 02/26/2004 4:30:22 PM PST by Snowy (Run Ralph, Run!)
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To: P-Marlowe
Instead they referred me to the CITY ATTORNEY who just happens to represent the interests of the Mayor.

We've become the third world. Am I the only one thinking of the "Badges....We don't need no steeenking badges" line? HELLO Caleeefornya...We don't need no steeenking Caleeefornya!!

How 'bout an amendment to give CA to Meheeco?? Can I get a second??!!

70 posted on 02/26/2004 4:32:25 PM PST by Extremist
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To: Therapist
O'Donnell and Carpenter, who have four children together...

Actually, Carpenter only had a salad.

71 posted on 02/26/2004 4:33:38 PM PST by Redcloak (¡LIBERE EL QUESO! ¡LIBERE EL QUESO! ¡LIBERE EL QUESO! ¡LIBERE EL QUESO! ¡LIBERE EL QUESO!)
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To: Therapist
I waiting to hear "ANOTHER 10 COMMANDMENT'S MONUMENT" has been placed in a public area!! I wonder why we haven't? Hard to believe anyone other than the Socialist/Leftists are winning the CULTURE WARS in this country.
72 posted on 02/26/2004 4:34:28 PM PST by PISANO (Our troops...... will NOT tire...will NOT falter.....and WILL NOT FAIL!!!)
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To: Thinkin' Gal
Those flowers look just like Rosie. A big plump package that looks like crap. I wonder if she got them at a grocery store....
73 posted on 02/26/2004 4:37:05 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe (The brighter you are, the more you have to learn)
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To: maggiefluffs
Oh man! Where is the barf alert on that one. I was eating dinner! (uh-oh!)
74 posted on 02/26/2004 4:37:48 PM PST by Maigrey (Kerry is the epitome of Bipartisanship - He's on both sides of every issue.)
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To: Therapist
You are NOT married AND marraige is NOT A RIGHT!!!

What about the explicit rights like free speech and gun ownership? You don't care about those do you?!?
75 posted on 02/26/2004 4:39:11 PM PST by dmanLA
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To: dmanLA
He Rosie,fat,stupid and queer is no way to go through life.
76 posted on 02/26/2004 4:40:47 PM PST by JOHANNES801 (WHEN THE 2ND IS REPEALED,THE 2ND REVOLUTION STARTS.)
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To: Therapist; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
Who is rosie? I thought she was Rosie Palm and Her Five Daughters.
77 posted on 02/26/2004 4:41:04 PM PST by SeeRushToldU_So (Music Friday?)
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To: Therapist; MeekOneGOP; *Homosexual Agenda; autoresponder; dennisw; SJackson; B4Ranch; JohnHuang2; ..

ROSIE and "WIFE" - "SnapOn Tools" Honeymoon

78 posted on 02/26/2004 4:47:33 PM PST by Happy2BMe (U.S.A. - - United We Stand - - Divided We Fall - - Support Our Troops - - Vote BUSH)
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To: SeeRushToldU_So
You bad boy....... I kind of doubt you would have any interest in THIS Rosie.......;^)
79 posted on 02/26/2004 4:54:27 PM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Sounds good to me!)
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To: ErnBatavia
this is just gross!!!!

i really like your tagline!!
80 posted on 02/26/2004 5:07:02 PM PST by SortaBichy
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