October 6, 2008
Well, Proposition 8 Supporters, This Shoots One of Your Stupidest Complaints All to Hell
‘Bride’ and ‘groom’ being restored
to California marriage forms… Since June 17, when gay marriage became legal in California as the result of a state Supreme Court ruling, two people getting hitched had only one option when filling out their marriage license form. One had to be identified as Party A. The other had to be known as Party B. …
Many Californians, even those who support the right of gays to marry, thought “Party A, Party B” sounded too cold, too bureaucratic.
Santa Clara County Clerk-Recorder Regina Alcomendras said Monday that she’s heard few complaints from people obtaining marriage licenses since the gender-neutral form took effect. But Alcomendras said county clerks in rural counties have received a lot more flak.
One Roseville couple refused to sign their marriage license because the form didn’t say “bride” and “groom.” And last week the couple filed a lawsuit against the Placer County clerk in Superior Court. …
County clerks will begin using the newest marriage-license form on Nov. 17. …
There, anti-gays, you can shut up about your precious semantics now.
Not that you’ll ever leave us alone, until you bring back Levitical law, so you can stone us to death in the streets.
But at least while you’re stoning us, we won’t have to listen to your incessant whining about “Party A” and “Party B” anymore.
Incidentally, this article contains some interesting statistics:
New research released Monday from the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law found that an estimated 11,000 same-sex couples got married in California in the first three months since it became legal. It’s not known how many couples were from out-of-state. …According to the researchers’ estimates, five counties accounted for nearly 80 percent of the same-sex marriages: Los Angeles (2,719), San Francisco (2,708), San Diego (1,689), Riverside (1,237) and Alameda (475).
Santa Clara County had 265. Santa Cruz County had 138. San Mateo County had 350. …
More at the link.
Filed under: California, Homophobia, Marriage, Proposition 8, Radical Religious Right
