Posted on 07/07/2014 3:57:13 PM PDT by Innovative
The terms “husband” and “wife” have been deleted from California’s marriage law under a bill signed into law Monday by Gov. Jerry Brown.
The terms will be replaced with “spouse” to accommodate same-sex marriage, which became legal in the state last year after the Supreme Court struck down a voter-approved ban on it.
SB1306, the bill signed Monday by Brown, takes effect Jan. 1 and reflects the legality of gay marriage after a decade of litigation. The law also removes limits on recognizing same-sex marriages performed out of state.
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Didn’t Brother Romney do the same thing in Massachusetts? Seems crass of us to be critical of a liberal doing what a Republican presidential nominee did in the past...
“Didn’t Brother Romney do the same thing in Massachusetts?”
I don’t think so — you better post a reference to substantiate your accusation.
In searching I found just the opposite:
“Summary: Mitt Romney on Same-Sex Marriage
Marriage should only be between a man and a woman.
Supports a constitutional amendment that would define marriage as between a man and a woman.
In favor of recognizing domestic partnerships that include the opportunity for shared health benefits and rights of survivorship.
Every child deserves a father and a mother.”
http://mittromneycentral.com/on-the-issues/same-sex-marriage/
I’m so sorry to disappoint you, but yes, Romney was governor at the time in Massachusetts, and he didn’t take the courageous course of saying ‘Well, guess we are out of the marriage business, all marriages in the state of Massachusetts are now considered unconstitutional under current law.’ Yes, he played a whole lot of games to pander to the conservatives, such as enforcing laws (for a very short time) that forbid marriage licenses if the marriage would be void in the resident state.
But hey, let’s take the words from those who support Romney and wish to absolutely forget that he was governor of the first state to permit homosexuals calling themselves married.
One of a billion references of the time: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/25/us/romney-won-t-let-gay-outsiders-wed-in-massachusetts.html
You are completely mischaracterizing it. The link you gave says that he won’t let gay out of staters marry in MA.
It appears that he had no power to stop it, but he was most definitely not in favor of it.
IF you criticize someone for something they actually did is one thing, but when you are FALSELY accusing someone just because you don’t like him and want to spread FALSE rumors it reflects on you.
I found an article which gives the whole story — the courts ruled in favor of gay marriage in MA. And Romney is not like Obama who ignores the courts and thinks he can do anything unilaterally.
“The state’s highest court ruled that gays had the legal right to marry, thrusting the state into the forefront of the same-sex marriage debate.”
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/29/nation/la-na-romney-gay-marriage-20120430
The state supreme court did not re-write law. They offered the 'nuclear' option of declaring all marriages to be unconstitutional, and Romney caved. Big shock there.
Placemark
Stick to the biblical term sodomite.
But your right, what they do is sick, just as their unnatural acts have the tendency to make each-other needlessly sick.
In any event it is clear that the State of California has left the business of what we could call marriage.
If your a Californian there is still such a thing as the original concept of marriage. Believe it or not the State has not long been a party.
http://www.boundaries-for-effective-ministry.org/marriage-license-application.html
Californian Churches need to get back into practicing Christian marriage again. Where the State of California has left their Church must assume soul practical ownership again.
Unfortunately not many churches are practising Christianity these days
Well we need to talk them into it. The legal contract called a marriage licence is not a marriage in itself, and does not constitute a marriage.
This fact must be made perfectly clear by the Church and all conservatives. A marriage is a two member family union between a man and woman. Designed by god for the propose of any children they might conserved.
There is no possible utility for this union between any other combination. The “licence” is really something of a State invented abomination originally designed in an effort to suppress the legal support of interracial marriages.
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