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Alaska Gay Marriage Ban (judicial stay) expires in 90 minutes, barring Supreme Court action (Original Post) brooklynite Oct 2014 OP
6 minutes... MuhkRahker Oct 2014 #1
Link from Anchorage Daily News Go Vols Oct 2014 #2
this is all because the alaska legislature was so worried about"sexual perversion" of gay marriage J_J_ Oct 2014 #3

Go Vols

(5,902 posts)
2. Link from Anchorage Daily News
Fri Oct 17, 2014, 03:06 PM
Oct 2014
A stay temporarily halting same-sex marriages in Alaska expired Friday, technically making it legal for couples to seek marriage licenses in the state.

But while marriages can go forward immediately, with state offices closed Friday in observance of Alaska Day, marriages will not resume until Monday morning.



http://www.adn.com/article/20141017/temporary-stay-ends-state-holiday-delays-alaska-same-sex-marriages
 

J_J_

(1,213 posts)
3. this is all because the alaska legislature was so worried about"sexual perversion" of gay marriage
Fri Oct 17, 2014, 03:17 PM
Oct 2014

meanwhile, these perverts in the national guard were raping, assaulting,
stealing, selling drugs for four years and the legislature didn't seem to care about that sexual perversion.




This is the Alaska legislature inaction:

In fall 2011, Rick Cavens, a chaplain with the Alaska Air National Guard, said he reached out to Rep. Dan Saddler, R-Eagle River, for help. The two crossed paths at a stand-down event for troubled vets in Anchorage.

Cavens thought Saddler, who sits as co-chair of the Joint Armed Services Committee and serves on the House Special Committee on Military and Veterans’ Affairs and is also on the budget subcommittee for the Department of Military & Veteran Affairs, might be able to do something.

Cavens had urged Saddler to hold exit interviews with outgoing commanders to get a sense of the culture within the guard and to hear from sources other than Katkus about what was going on.

Things had gotten so bad that Cavens and other chaplains, who prayed weekly for the guard and the state’s leadership, said they often felt “like an evil is coming in upon us.”

That “evil,” as Cavens describes it, was the way people were treated, the disrespect and unfairness that was affecting lives and careers, he said.

People that were harsh and manipulative were being put into positions of power and control, Cavens said. If you did what Katkus wanted, you were rewarded. If you didn’t, you were punished, he said.

He said he’d had a long conversation with Saddler at the stand-down event. Saddler promised to look into it but “did nothing,” Cavens said.

Saddler said he doesn’t recall the conversation.
http://www.adn.com/article/20141016/state-senator-wants-hearing-national-guard-problems


These are the hypocritical idiots we are dealing with.


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