Posted on 06/16/2008 8:12:30 PM PDT by mngran2
With a series of simple “I dos,” gay couples across California inaugurated the state’s court-approved and potentially short-lived legalization of same-sex marriage on Monday, the first of what is expected to be a crush of such unions in coming weeks.
The weddings began in a handful of locations around the state at exactly 5:01 p.m., the earliest time allowed by last month’s decision by the California Supreme Court legalizing same-sex marriage. Many more ceremonies will be held on Tuesday when all 58 counties will be issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
In San Francisco, Del Martin, 87, and Phyllis Lyon, 84, longtime gay rights activists, were the first and only couple to be wed here, saying their vows in the office of Mayor Gavin Newsom, before emerging to a throng of reporters and screaming well-wishers.
Ms. Martin and Ms. Lyon, who have been together for more than 50 years, seemed touched, if a little amazed by all the attention.
“When we first got together we weren’t thinking about getting married,” Ms. Lyon said before cutting a wedding cake. “I think it’s a wonderful day.”
Outside City Hall, several hundred supporters and protesters chanted, cheered and jeered in equal measure, giving an unruly carnival feel to the scene, complete with a marching band playing wedding songs and signs reading “Homo Sex is Sin.”
In Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco, Mayor Ron Dellums presided over more than a dozen marriages in the City Council chambers, which had been transformed into a de facto wedding chapel, with stands of flowers and a standing-room-only crowd.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Why do you think God would punish me and you and everyone else in the country because of what some people—who we do not control—do?
Well, I believe that God did flood the earth because of sin, that’s what the Bible says, and because of sin! So you see, we can all be effected for what’s going on, how shameful, womem with women and men with men, it’s so unatural.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“It makes perfect sense, the only seemingly lasting homosexual relationships come after middle age when they’re no longer an item on the circuit party.”
Hmmm... I’m not sure the circuit parties were big when these two got together. They’ve been together for 55 years, which would put one of them in her late twenties and the other in her early thirties when they met.
Whatever one thinks about the propriety of legalizing this or calling it marriage, it is pretty impressive for two people to stay together and care for one another so deeply after 55 years.
This is so sickening, and every time I fire up my computer, the media tells me how great it is.
If that is so, then it's time to physically remove the powers that be, what other recourse do you have? Hoping them away is not going to get the job done. It's still wrong, it's a sin, no matter what others think, it's wrong and there will be an accounting. But it's also up to us to establish a form of justice, although just a shadow of God's justice, it must be done regardless.
pathetic.
What kind of benefits???
How wrong you are. With all due respect, read your bible.
the woman in the wheel chair seems to not have any idea where she is or what is going on.
correct it is a sham marriage and in their little confused sexual perverted minds they think they are normal in what they do and think that they are married like a normal natural couple
sad isn’t it that these people need mental help for their confusion and yet they are not getting it
notice how they said that the protesters gave an unsavoury feel to it, er not they are letting it be known that not all have been brainwashed into their sick perverted twisted sexual antics
Yes, she has that wonderful smile that sometimes goes with senile dementia.
An article in the local paper today was about two guys from TN who got “married” in CA.
mmmm
they go back to TN and now sue to have their marriage recognised I bet.
Here in Fl we got over the half million signatures needed to get the marriage question on the ballot this year much to the dismay of the gay mafia
They went to court I believe to get all those who signed the signatures on the Internet so everyone could know who signed it , but that intimidation tactic never worked now they are trying to tell natural normal couples that if they ban homosexual marriage then it will affect them badly .
Of course they haven’t told anyone how it would affect badly .
These so-called marriages will only last until Election Day. The marriage ammendment is going to pass.
It’s no landmark in our nations history, it’s a new nadir.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.