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| Mar 28th, 2004 10:03 AM | |||
| Cosmo Electrolux | Marriage is just state approved slavery, anyway. | ||
| Mar 28th, 2004 07:25 AM | |||
| glowbelly |
i was so going to post this earlier in the week, but i forgot. i think this is the most fair solution to this issue that i have seen so far. |
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| Mar 27th, 2004 09:23 PM | |||
| Brandon |
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| Mar 27th, 2004 09:20 PM | |||
| Emu |
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| Mar 27th, 2004 06:04 PM | |||
| ziggytrix | that's fuckin awesome, it is. | ||
| Mar 27th, 2004 05:22 PM | |||
| Bobo Adobo |
Oregon was always my favorite state. 
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| Mar 27th, 2004 04:50 PM | |||
| Brandon |
Oregon county bans ALL marriage Don't know if any of you heard about this, but it's pretty clever. http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/03/2...iage.ban.reut/ Oregon county bans all marriage Wednesday, March 24, 2004 Posted: 9:14 AM EST (1414 GMT) PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) -- In a new twist in the battle over same-sex marriage roiling the United States, a county in Oregon has banned all marriages -- gay and heterosexual -- until the state decides who can and who cannot wed. The last marriage licenses were handed out in Benton County at 4 p.m. local time (7:00 p.m. EST) Tuesday. As of Wednesday, officials in the county of 79,000 people will begin telling couples applying for licenses to go elsewhere until the gay marriage debate is settled. "It may seem odd," Benton County Commissioner Linda Modrell told Reuters in a telephone interview, but "we need to treat everyone in our county equally." State Attorney General Hardy Myers said in a statement that he was "very pleased" with Benton County's decision. "It is my sincere hope that the legal process will provide clarity for each of Oregon's counties." The three County commissioners had originally decided to start handing out gay marriage licenses this week but on Monday reversed that decision amid a growing firestorm of lawsuits across the country, and decided instead to put a temporary halt to all marriages. Rebekah Kassell, a spokeswoman for Basic Rights Oregon, a pro-gay marriage group, told Reuters; "It is certainly a different way for county commissioners to respect their constitutional obligation to apply the law equally to everyone. "We appreciate that they are willing to say they are not going to participate in discrimination." Tim Nashif, the spokesman for the Defense of Marriage Coalition, said; "Oregon not only has the only county in the nation issuing illegal (same-sex) marriage licenses, we probably have the only county in the nation refusing to issue marriage licenses at all." "We are happy Benton County is not going to violate the law by issuing illegal marriage licenses, but we are perplexed as to why they would not issue legal licenses," he added. Benton County, whose county seat is Corvallis, is home to Oregon State University and is seen as a bastion of liberalism. Meanwhile, the American Civil Liberties Union said it would file a lawsuit Wednesday against Oregon or an unnamed state entity over the state's failure to register the more than 2,550 marriage licenses issued by Portland's Multnomah County to gay couples since March 3. Multnomah County, the state's most populous, is the only jurisdiction in the United States that continues to issue same-sex marriage licenses. Local governments from San Francisco to New Paltz, New York, have halted the practice amid lawsuits and protests. |
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