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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 16 2008, 09:41 PM (560 Views) | |
| Auntie Maine | Jun 16 2008, 09:41 PM Post #1 |
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SAN FRANCISCO - Dozens of gay couples planned to rush down to their county clerk's office Monday evening to be among the very first to say "I do" under the historic court ruling making California the second state to allow same-sex marriages The May 15 decision by the California Supreme Court was set to take effect at 5 p.m. While Mondays are not exactly a big day for weddings, at least five county clerks around the state agreed to extend their hours to issue marriage licenses, and many gay couples planned to get married on the spot. "These are not folks who just met each other last week and said, `Let's get married.' These are folks who have been together in some cases for decades," said Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. "They are married in their hearts and minds, but they have never been able to have that experience of community and common humanity." The really big rush to the altar in the nation's most populous state is not expected to take place until Tuesday, which is when most counties plan to start issuing marriage licenses to gay couples. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of couples from around the country are expected to seize the opportunity to make their unions official in the eyes of the law. Local officials will be required to issue licenses that have the words "Party A" and "Party B" where "bride" and "groom" used to be. A conservative Christian legal group asked a state appeals court to block the weddings, but the move was given little chance of success. California's high court rejected a previous request for a postponement. In San Francisco, where Mayor Gavin Newsom helped launch the series of lawsuits that led the court to strike down California's one-man-one-woman marriage laws, workers got ready for the crush of couples by setting up a satellite office in the lobby of City Hall. Newsom planned to preside at the wedding of lesbian rights activists Del Martin, 87, and Phyllis Lyon, 84, the only couple scheduled to receive a marriage license in the city on Monday. As of Friday, nearly 620 couples had booked appointments to obtain licenses at San Francisco City Hall over the next 10 days. Clerks elsewhere around the state reported nowhere near as high a demand but said they were training volunteer marriage commissioners to officiate at civil ceremonies in anticipation of a surge in business. Unlike Massachusetts, which legalized gay marriage in 2004, California has no residency requirement for marriage licenses, and that is expected to draw a great number of out-of-state couples. The turnout could also be boosted by New York state's recent announcement that it will recognize gay marriages performed in other jurisdictions. A UCLA study issued last week estimated that half of California's more than 100,000 same-sex couples will get married over the next three years, and an additional 68,000 out-of-state couples will travel here to exchange vows. The study estimated that over that period, gay weddings will generate some 2,200 jobs and $64 million in badly needed tax revenue for the state, which is ailing financially. Some of those out-of-state couples are likely to demand legal recognition in their home states, setting the stage for numerous court battles. However, some couples may wait to tie the knot because of a proposed constitutional amendment on the California ballot in November that would undo the Supreme Court ruling and ban gay marriage. Amid the preparations, some religious leaders and conservative activists objected to the social change unfolding around them. The seven bishops of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles issued a statement Monday reiterating the Roman Catholic Church's position on same-sex marriage. "The church cannot approve of redefining marriage, which has a unique place in God's creation, joining a man and a woman in a committed relationship," the bishops said. Although government officials cannot legally withhold marriage licenses from same-sex couples, the clerks in comparatively conservative Kern, Calaveras and Butte counties last week stopped performing weddings altogether. Among the reasons they cited were concerns that the increased demand would overwhelm their staffs and endanger the security of the election equipment they also oversee as part of their jobs. Robin Tyler, 66, and Diane Olson, 54, who like Lyon and Martin were among the two dozen couples who served as plaintiffs in the litigation, also were scheduled to get married on Monday afternoon. The Los Angeles County clerk agreed to issue them a marriage license a day ahead of the general public in recognition of their role in the case. "The word `marriage' is important to me to this day because marriage is a universally understood word," Olson said. "Robin is a different relationship to me than any other relationship I've had in my life. She's my special person."
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| alondria | Jun 16 2008, 09:45 PM Post #2 |
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Cum swallowing whore!!!
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| Jane | Jun 16 2008, 09:46 PM Post #3 |
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Board Bitch!
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When other states notice the world hasn't ended because of this, maybe they will follow! |
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| Julesy | Jun 16 2008, 09:47 PM Post #4 |
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yay! gay people can be miserable like heteros! jk....sorta |
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| Auntie Maine | Jun 16 2008, 09:51 PM Post #5 |
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I could go to Mass. and do it but i want my state to allow it damn it. |
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| Auntie Maine | Jun 16 2008, 09:58 PM Post #6 |
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Not really part of this story but.... LONDON (Reuters) - Gay men and straight women share some characteristics in the area of the brain responsible for emotion, mood and anxiety, researchers said on Monday in a study highlighting the potential biological underpinning of sexuality. Brain scans also showed the same symmetry among lesbians and straight men, the researchers wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "The observations cannot be easily attributed to perception or behavior," the researchers from Sweden's Karolinska Institute wrote. "Whether they may relate to processes laid down during the fetal or postnatal development is an open question." A number of studies have looked at the roles genetic, biological and environmental factors play in sexual orientation but little evidence exists that any plays an all-important role. Many scientists believe both nature and nurture play a part. Brain scans of 90 volunteers showed that the brains of heterosexual men and homosexual women were slightly asymmetric with the right hemisphere slightly larger than the left, Ivanka Savic and Pers Lindstrom wrote. The brains of gay men and heterosexual women were not. Then they measured blood flow to the amygdala -- the area key for the "fight-or-flight" response -- and found it was wired in a similar fashion in gay men and heterosexual women as well as lesbians and heterosexual men. The researchers added that the study cannot say whether the differences in brain shape are inherited or due to exposure to hormones such as testosterone in the womb and if they are responsible for sexual orientation. But this is something they plan to look at in a further study of newborn babies to see if it can help predict future sexual orientation. "These observations motivate more extensive investigations of larger study groups and prompt for a better understanding of the neurobiology of homosexuality," they wrote. |
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| Julesy | Jun 16 2008, 10:02 PM Post #7 |
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hmm I just always wondered why some gay men act more womanly than actual straight women. i mean I like cock and guys but Im not 'all out there' ya know? no women I know really act all girly girly all the time like some gay guys. Even when we visit my guys gay uncle, his voice and his partners voice are more girly than mine, and Im a girl. why is that?
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| Auntie Maine | Jun 16 2008, 10:08 PM Post #8 |
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Cuz your a butch bitch
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| Julesy | Jun 16 2008, 10:10 PM Post #9 |
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lmao! Im not! My friend Sarah is a big cock whore girly girl and she doesnt act that flamboyant! |
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| Auntie Maine | Jun 16 2008, 10:14 PM Post #10 |
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I bet I own more dresses than you do.
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| Julesy | Jun 16 2008, 10:17 PM Post #11 |
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you probably do. Ive just always wondered. |
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| Serpy | Jun 16 2008, 10:29 PM Post #12 |
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I've never fully understood it either Jules! I'd consider myself basically masculine in everyday situations but admit around my gay friends I "queen out" a bit but that's just doing fake voices and stuff. I can't imagine being THAT fem 24/7!
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| Taman | Jun 17 2008, 08:03 AM Post #13 |
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Exactly. And no none of my friends (or me) are as feminine as some of the gay guys. I have to say that when men act like women, it annoys the hell out of me. If you are gay, I can accept it but when straight men do that... it is such a turn off that I want to hit them. |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Jun 17 2008, 11:45 AM Post #14 |
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I am sure Maine will be one of the first ones, dan. From everything you tell us about Maine it is a very tolerant and pro gay rights state, This is fucking awesome!! :blisss I dont think it will take long now before half of the states legalize it |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Jun 17 2008, 11:47 AM Post #15 |
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it is also annoying when lesbians look and act like dudes. |
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| Auntie Maine | Jun 17 2008, 12:16 PM Post #16 |
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I know what you mean.Its almost as annoying as people dating out of their race.
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Jun 17 2008, 12:17 PM Post #17 |
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I know, right? Who do those white bitches think they are dating those black and hispanic men! No one has any dignity these days! |
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| Auntie Maine | Jun 17 2008, 12:19 PM Post #18 |
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Just like that damn Obama man saying marriage is for men and women only.Go jump a broom with your whore then.
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| Denovissimus | Jun 17 2008, 12:19 PM Post #19 |
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Well I wish they would have waited until after the elections, because this very same thing happened before the last election and it was enough to get the chrisitian fundamentals all riled up and vote for Bush, giving him enough of the vote to eventually steal the election (AGAIN) in Ohio. |
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| Auntie Maine | Jun 17 2008, 12:20 PM Post #20 |
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Civil rights are for EVERYONE
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