02-18-2004, 03:29 PM
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4251510/
Over 2,500 gay couples have now been married, and the SF judges delayed the conservatives because the cons made one spelling mistake when they filed their court brief. Sometimes, bureaucracy can be used for good instead of evil.
Meanwhile, I've managed to find a glaring mistake that the conservatives have made in their arguments against San Francisco:
This could be interpreted to mean one of several possible things:
Possible interpretation #1: The conservatives are attempting to deny gay couples the right to buy "worthless" marriage certificates.
Possible interpretation #2: All marriage certificates, including those for straight couples, are, legally speaking, worthless, and the state has therefore given straight couple rights which they don't actually have.
Possible interpretation #3: The marriage certificates issued to gay couples are actually legitimate, and the conservatives are just bullshitting us.
If I were arguing in favor of gay marriage, I would probably try and interrogate the conservatives about why they are attempting to stop the marriage certificates if the certificates aren't worth anything anyway. Could it be that *gasp* the conservatives are afraid of a symbol? If you look at it from that angle, there is no legally viable reason to deny gay people the right to marry.
Over 2,500 gay couples have now been married, and the SF judges delayed the conservatives because the cons made one spelling mistake when they filed their court brief. Sometimes, bureaucracy can be used for good instead of evil.
Meanwhile, I've managed to find a glaring mistake that the conservatives have made in their arguments against San Francisco:
Quote:What the mayor is doing is only symbolic; the marriages licenses that were issued aren't worth the paper they're written on.
This could be interpreted to mean one of several possible things:
Possible interpretation #1: The conservatives are attempting to deny gay couples the right to buy "worthless" marriage certificates.
Possible interpretation #2: All marriage certificates, including those for straight couples, are, legally speaking, worthless, and the state has therefore given straight couple rights which they don't actually have.
Possible interpretation #3: The marriage certificates issued to gay couples are actually legitimate, and the conservatives are just bullshitting us.
If I were arguing in favor of gay marriage, I would probably try and interrogate the conservatives about why they are attempting to stop the marriage certificates if the certificates aren't worth anything anyway. Could it be that *gasp* the conservatives are afraid of a symbol? If you look at it from that angle, there is no legally viable reason to deny gay people the right to marry.