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Posted on 04/14/2005 8:27:57 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
yer the best,...I needed a good laugh,what with the nervous nellie spaghetti-legged Congresscritterzzzz
Praise God!
I agree---I'm not saying they were wrong about the streak---I'm saying they were wrong in their prediction :)
At Last, Some Sense has arrived
ROFLMAO!
And recall those thousands of reprinted dictionaries distributed to Oregon schools. The word "marriage" was temporarily redefined, but now that's all off.
By BRAD CAIN
Associated Press Writer
SALEM, Ore. - Gov. Ted Kulongoski says he will push for a civil unions bill in the 2005 Legislature to give gay and lesbian couples some of the rights bestowed on married couples.
Kulongoski's pledge to back a civil unions law expands on his announcement in January that he would support legislation extending anti-discrimination protections to gays and lesbians.
The Democratic governor said Wednesday that he is working with a bipartisan group of senators on a bill that combines a proposed civil unions law with the anti-discrimination provisions.
"As I stated in January, we face a great moral challenge to make sure opportunity is an open door through which every citizen can pass - not a revolving door which turns for some and doesn't budge for others," he said.
Kulongoski's announcement comes as the Oregon Supreme Court is preparing to rule on a challenge of the state's marriage law. That ruling is expected soon.
The legal limbo over that court challenge had kept Senate Democrats from pushing bills that create civil unions and advance gay rights.
But Kulongoski said Wednesday he is moving ahead on the civil unions and anti-discrimination legislation. The bill is co-sponsored by Democratic Sens. Kate Brown of Portland and Alan Bates of Ashland and Republican Sens. Frank Morse of Albany and Ben Westlund of Bend.
The state's leading gay rights group, Basic Rights Oregon, praised the governor's decision to move ahead on civil unions legislation.
"All Oregonians should take pride today in Gov. Kulongoski's tremendous public and personal commitment to ending discrimination," said Roey Thorpe, the group's executive director.
Republican leaders in the House had no immediate reaction to Kulongoski's announcement that he was backing civil unions legislation, said Chuck Deister, a spokesman for House Speaker Karen Minnis.
However, Deister said last week that House Republicans would wait to see how the state Supreme Court rules before moving on the issue.
In March 2004, Multnomah County issued marriage licenses to nearly 3,000 gay and lesbian couples before Circuit Judge Frank Bearden put a stop to the practice.
In his ruling, Bearden set a 90-day deadline for the 2005 Legislature to fix the problem by adopting a civil unions law.
That deadline was Saturday, but the state Department of Justice said it was not enforceable because Oregon voters in November amended the state constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman.
In Wednesday's announcement, Kulongoski said the civil unions bill he's now pushing would confer on same-sex couples the legal protections, rights and responsibilities generally afforded to married couples.
The bill also would amend Oregon's existing anti-discrimination laws to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation in housing, employment, public accommodation, education and public services.
http://www.katu.com/stories/76437.html
Supreme Court Nullifies Same-Sex Marriage Licenses
Nearly 3,000 Licenses Voided
PORTLAND -- The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday nullified nearly 3,000 marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples by Multnomah County a year ago.
The court said while the county can question the constitutionality of laws governing marriage, they are a matter of statewide concern so the county had no authority to issue licenses to gay couples.
"As a result, the Court concluded that the licenses issued to same-sex couples by the county were void ab initio," according to a news release by the court.
Click HERE to read the entire ruling.
http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/S51612.htm
More to come.
http://www.koin.com/news.asp?ID=2108
It's inevitable guys. It's only a matter of time where a radical judge(in the supreme court) will tell everyone that equal protection under the law means that gay individuals should have equal rights, therefore over-riding every states law that banned gay marriage.
BARF
hahaha!
As if that ever got in the way of a judge.
"They had NO choice."
That's never stopped them before. ;o)
HAHAHAHA!!!
Funniest thing I have read since joining FR.
Yes!
Good news out of left wing Oregon, actually Portland, Eugene, Ashland and any other city with a university/college.
The judges already have a plan. They will just "give" everything to the homoseuxal just not call it marriage. They will try and legally say the duck is not a duck.
It is how they planned to bypass marriage amendments by judicially creating judicial civil unions.
As in the above post the democrats and their RINO useful idiots intend to create civil unions and special rights for homosexuals.
Homosexuals are in a race against time since most if not all the new marriage amendments have "no civil union" clauses. I bet oregon voters will have to go back and ban civil unions too.
LMAO!
This is good news.
However the bs from the current left wing governor isn't.
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