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SAN FRANCISCO -- The hundreds of gay and lesbian weddings performed in San Francisco since Thursday will stand at least through the week-end after a Superior Court judge denied a motion to halt and nullify the same-sex marriages. Following the ruling, which delayed further legal action until at least Tuesday, Mayor Gavin Newsom opened the floodgates, extending city clerk hours until 6 p.m. Friday evening -- with ceremonies likely conducted until midnight. And as if adding an exclamation point, he also announced weekend hours for today, Sunday and the Monday holiday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., no appointment necessary....

SAN FRANCISCO - Scores of gay couples were issued marriage licenses here Thursday in a move by city officials that generated both immediate promises of legal action by gay-marriage foes and tears of joy and celebratory whoops by the newly hitched. Two days before Valentine's Day, Mayor Gavin Newsom gave the go-ahead to the county clerk to accept marriage license applications from same-gender couples....

Gay Marriage Opponents File Suit in S.F. 29 minutes ago By LISA LEFF, Associated Press Writer SAN FRANCISCO - Opponents of gay marriage went to court Friday to stop an extraordinary act of ongoing civil disobedience in which San Francisco has issued more than 150 marriage licenses to gay couples. Weddings appeared likely to continue through the long holiday weekend despite efforts by the Campaign for California Families and the Alliance Defense Fund to obtain a temporary restraining order that would prevent the city from granting more licenses. A Superior Court hearing was scheduled Friday afternoon. Around the country, gays...

February 12, 2004, 2:57 PM EST SAN FRANCISCO -- In a political and legal challenge to California law, city authorities officiated at the marriage of a lesbian couple Thursday and said they will issue more gay marriage licenses. The act of civil disobedience was coordinated by Mayor Gavin Newsom and top city officials and was intended to beat a conservative group to the punch. The group, Campaign for California Families, had planned to go to court on Friday to get an injunction preventing the city from issuing marriage licenses to gay couples.

While the latest front of the "gay revolution" consolidates its victories in Canada, it is also making significant progress in the United States — with Canadian help. Here in Canada, Bill C-250, designed in my view to stifle public discussion of the moral issue of homosexuality, has been reintroduced after lapsing with the last parliamentary session. … Bill Graham, a Minister of the Crown, phoned the Toronto Star to assure it that the new Martin government would put an act to fully legalize gay marriage to a vote in Parliament before the next election. … Larry Spencer was formally excluded...

Gay marriage setback for the Democrats By Alec Russell in Washington (Filed: 06/02/2004) A bitter row over same-sex marriages has exploded on to the agenda for this year's American presidential campaign after a landmark ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Court that gay couples have a right to marry. To the outrage of conservatives the top Massachusetts court paved the way for America's first same sex weddings in the spring, by ruling that the state legislature may not offer civil unions instead of marriages for gay couples The ruling comes at an appalling time for Democrats trying to make their case...

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) said on Thursday that he would block gay marriage legislation from coming through the United States Senate. Talon News reported on Thursday that the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the liberal northeastern state must allow people of the same sex to be married, not just enter into civil unions. "I want to be very clear. We reject intolerance, we reject hatred. We must treat all our fellow citizens with civility and kindness," Frist exclaimed on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Frist said he would not allow activist...

No matter how you feel about gay marriage, we should be able to agree that the citizens and their elected representatives must not be excluded from a decision as fundamental to society as the definition of marriage. There are lessons from my state's experience that might help other states preserve the rightful participation of their legislatures and citizens, and avoid the confusion now facing Massachusetts. In a decision handed down in November, a divided Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts detected a previously unrecognized right in our 200-year-old state constitution that permits same-sex couples to wed. I believe that 4-3 decision...

Pass a law that will not allow anyone to be married in Massachusetts until the Constitutional question is resolved. Either that or pass a law to really make the Supreme Court look really bad and allow statutory rape, no age limit, that you can marry your immediate relatives, be a polygomist, or marry your children. This could really f them up

Kerry Opposes Gay Marriage Despite Court Ruling Thu February 05, 2004 08:00 PM ET By David Alexander PORTLAND, Maine (Reuters) - Democratic front-runner John Kerry said on Thursday he favored letting homosexuals enter into civil unions and disagreed with a Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling granting gays the right to marry. But the Massachusetts senator added the issue should be addressed at the state level and not by the federal government. Some political analysts say with his Massachusetts background, Kerry is vulnerable to Republican attacks trying to link him to the ruling and picturing the senator as too liberal for the...

Today, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that they will accept nothing short of full marriage rights for same-sex couples. In doing so, the court clearly demonstrated their radical gay marriage agenda by rejecting the Massachusetts state legislatures attempts to find a compromise. Responding to the Massachusetts ruling, U.S. Senate candidate Herman Cain said, “The courts have failed the American people. Congress needs to enact a constitutional amendment to protect the sacred institution of marriage.” Cain went on to say, “Liberal-minded judges have opened a floodgate of judicial tyranny that will chip away at the core values of this country until...

Might gay marriage become John Kerry’s “Willie Horton?” CBS worries it could. In a Wednesday night CBS Evening News story, Jim Axelrod regurgitated the media’s favorite target as he asked: “Remember Willie Horton?” Axelrod then fretted about how Kerry must be concerned that just as nefarious Republican operatives “made 'Michael Dukakis,’ 'Massachusetts liberal’ and 'out of touch’ synonymous” with the ads about furloughs for murderers, they could do the same with Kerry on gay marriage though, in fact, Kerry’s opposition to gay marriage and support of civil unions is, Axelrod contended, “the basic position of George W. Bush, who also...

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Former Homosexual: 'Gay Marriage is a Counterfeit and Fraud' 2/5/04 9:16:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Irene Bennett of Stephen Bennett Ministries, 203-926-6960 or 203-913-9745 (cell); http://www.SBMinistries.org/media.html HUNTINGTON, Conn., Feb. 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Stephen Bennett, executive director of SBM, Inc. and former homosexual, testified yesterday on Beacon Hill at the Massachusetts Statehouse stating "gay" marriage is "...a deceptive counterfeit and fraud." A Representative interrupted the session, announcing the breaking news from the state's SJC rejecting a civil union compromise and demanding "gay" marriage. Bennett, a national speaker on homosexuality and the "gay" agenda, lived the "gay" lifestyle...