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[Gardenlady]

I was so thrilled when I read it that I woke up my teens and all their friends who crashed here last night and were trying to sleep in lol! One is gay, my DD is bi, and ALL the kids were thrilled with the news, so they didn't mind too much after they heard why I was yelling YAY and running to turn on the TV lol! :lol:

 

[Nova]

There will be a little reworking of some existing forms like the marriage certificate. Maybe my brother will marry his partner of ten years in the near future.

Our forms at my old job just said employee and spouse. You also had the option of adding a non married unrelated other person to health care, life insurance etc. Just can't remember how those forms were worded for the significant other!

I was mostly joking about the forms. I think the delay is because the appellate court has to remove its stay on gay marriage, as ordered by the Supreme Court.

BTW, the Episcopal bishop of San Diego (whose territory includes Palm Springs where I live) issued an order this morning calling on the clergy in his region to begin blessing gay marriages as soon as the stay is lifted.

 

[Knitty]

Congratulations to the U.S.!

 

[Nova]

Congratulations to the U.S.!

Yes. As Craig Ferguson would say, "It's a great day for America."

(My apologies to Latin Americans. Yes, I know you are part of America, too, but I was quoting Ferguson.)

 

[justanother]

I was so thrilled when I read it that I woke up my teens and all their friends who crashed here last night and were trying to sleep in lol! One is gay, my DD is bi, and ALL the kids were thrilled with the news, so they didn't mind too much after they heard why I was yelling YAY and running to turn on the TV lol! :lol:

I love this! I think i called/text everyone in my phone saying a not so polite goodbye to section 3 of DOMA!

I am so happy to know that should our son or any of his generation be homosexual, they will not face many of the hurdles we have!

 

[burbqueen]

wait...there are gays in Iowa???? holy cow!

I'm very straight, but support gay rights! Celebrate!

 

[Nova]

Thanks to prompt action by the appellate court to remove the stay on gay marriages (as directed by SCOTUS), gay weddings resumed in California yesterday. Some city halls remained open today (Saturday) just to deal with the demand. As it turned out, the one-month delay was not necessary.

It's a great day for California! Please add us to the list of states where gay marriage is legal!

(That being said, it's 120 in Palm Springs today. I'm glad I'm not holding a wedding. It was bad enough (108) when we WERE married back in 2008!)

 

[i.b.nora]

Proposition 8 Proponents Ask Supreme Court To Halt California Gay Marriages

Huffington Post
By LISA LEFF 06/29/13 06:29 PM ET EDT Associated Press

"SAN FRANCISCO — Less than 24 hours after California started issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, lawyers for the sponsors of the state's gay marriage ban filed an emergency motion Saturday asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the weddings being performed in San Francisco.

Attorneys with the Arizona-based Alliance Defending Freedom claim in the petition that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals acted prematurely and unfairly on Friday when it allowed gay marriage to resume. The court lifted a hold it had placed on same-sex unions while a lawsuit challenging the ban made its way to and through the Supreme Court."

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"Many legal experts who had anticipated such a last-ditch effort by gay marriage opponents said Friday that it was unlikely to succeed because the 9th Circuit has independent authority over its own orders, in this case its 2010 stay."

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""As a matter of practice, most lower federal courts wait to act," Amar said. "But there is nothing that limits them from acting sooner. It was within the 9th Circuit's power to do what it did.""

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"The Supreme Court's finding that Proposition 8's backers lacked standing to defend it left in place a trial court's 2010 ruling that the measure, which amended the California Constitution to limit marriage to a man and a woman, violated the civil rights of gay Californians.

Then on Friday, the 9th Circuit appeared to have removed the last obstacle to making same-sex matrimony legal again in California when it removed its hold on the lower court's order directing state officials to stop enforcing the ban.

The two couples who sued to overturn Proposition 8 were wed in San Francisco and Los Angeles Friday. On Saturday, dozens of couples in jeans, shorts, white dresses and the occasional military uniform filled San Francisco City Hall, where 81 same-sex couples obtained marriage licenses on Friday, as clerks returned to issue more licenses."

More...

 

[shana]

In San Francisco, a weekend of gay weddings at City Hall

^ Link is for single-page full story...just a few clips from it (bbm):

In the first hour of business Saturday morning alone, San Francisco officials issued about 100 marriage licenses. All told, 246 were granted and 188 couples were married on the first full day of legal, post-Proposition 8 marriage.

The process was summed up nicely by a small sign outside the county clerk's office: "License = $99. Ceremony = $75. Both = $174. Equality = Priceless."

Everyone working at City Hall — which will be open again Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. — was a volunteer, from the cashiers taking the license payments to the greeters keeping the process running smoothly and the marriage commissioners in their long black robes intoning, "By virtue of the authority vested in me by the state of California, I now pronounce you spouses for life."

JOY!

~jmo~

 

[shana]

Supreme Court rejects bid to halt same-sex marriages in California

The Supreme Court rejected an emergency request to stop same-sex marriages in California, a lawyer for the gay couples who sued said Sunday.

Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., one of the lawyers who challenged Proposition 8, said that he had just received word from the court Sunday morning that Justice Anthony M. Kennedy denied a request by ProtectMarriage, the sponsors of Proposition 8, to halt the marriages.

~jmo~

 

[Nova]

That's great news, shana. Thanks for posting it!

The relevant Wiki article has been updated to show California on the map as a "gay marriage" state. I can't help but link it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_status_in_the_United_States_by_state

 

[Cappuccino]

The gay marriage bill for England and Wales has just passed its third and final reading in the House of Lords. That means the legalisation process has the passed the point of no return. It'll be signed into law by the Queen in September and gay marriage will become a reality in Britain from early next year onwards.

I bet the Scottish parliament won't be far behind them, the Irish PM has been quoted in today's papers as saying there could be a referendum here next year, (and the opinion polls show its likely to be passed). Only Northern Ireland seems to have no hope of legalising it in the foreseeable future.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Report: Gay marriage becomes legal in Britain

1st same-sex wedding could be held as early as next summer

Published On: Jul 17 2013 09:25:59 AM EDT Updated On: Jul 17 2013 09:32:11 AM EDT

Gay marriage is now legal in Britain after Queen Elizabeth II gave it royal approval, The Associated Press reported.

With the queen's approval -- a formality in the UK -- the first same-sex wedding could be held as early as next summer.

The Marriage Bill, as it was known, to allow same-sex marriage in England and Wales passed the British House of Commons on Tuesday...

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/...ain/-/1719418/21012716/-/m03yorz/-/index.html

 

[Nova]

I think ALL marriage-equality bills should be signed into law by queens!

 

[noZme]

 

[Reader]

Churches changing bylaws after gay marriage ruling

http://www.federalnewsradio.com/316/3431387/Churches-changing-bylaws-after-gay-marriage-ruling

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Worried they could be sued by gay couples, some churches are changing their bylaws to reflect their view that the Bible allows only marriage between one man and one woman.

Although there have been lawsuits against wedding industry businesses that refuse to serve gay couples, attorneys promoting the bylaw changes say they don't know of any lawsuits against churches.

Critics say the changes are unnecessary, but some churches fear that it's only a matter of time before one of them is sued.

"I thought marriage was always between one man and one woman, but the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision said no," said Gregory S. Erwin, an attorney for the Louisiana Baptist Convention, an association of Southern Baptist churches and one several groups advising churches to change their bylaws. "I think it's better to be prepared because the law is changing. America is changing."

Much more in 2p. article....

 

[Nova]

The IRS announced today that it will allow married gay couples to file jointly.

April will be a lot easier at my house.


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/29/irs-gay-marriage-taxes/2728927/

 

[AzPistonsGirl]

I saw a great silly quote on someone's SM that read: "If Miley Cyrus can go around doing what she did at the VMAs, I do not understand why we don't allow gay marriage in this country."

I concur with the sentiment, without any discussion about MC.

And I think a bunch of NM counties got the green flag this week. I figured that would be the latest news here. Yay Albuquerque!

 

[Linda7NJ]

I think claiming gay marriage will somehow hurt / diminish marriages between heterosexual persons to be hysterically funny.

.... Some whack job televangelist was taking about it late one night when I fell asleep with the tv on ... Woke to that nonsense...

 

[Nova]

I think claiming gay marriage will somehow hurt / diminish marriages between heterosexual persons to be hysterically funny.

.... Some whack job televangelist was taking about it late one night when I fell asleep with the tv on ... Woke to that nonsense...

I know, Linda! I've only been legally married for 5 years now, but, honestly, it never occurs to me that ANYbody else's marriage diminishes or exalts mine.

But Pat Robertson announced this week that homosexuals in San Francisco wear special rings that will cut you when you shake hands and give you AIDS.

Yes, he really said that.

I think Robertson's existence in this earthly plane diminishes all of us!