If a Massachussetts city gave out gay marriage licenses...

[arcos]

Would the right wing have ANY chance to stop it in courts? The MA Supreme Court already ruled marriage is the only constitutional option, and opponents are trying to pass an ammendment. I think they probably wouldn't be able to do anything against it in courts, and the marriage would have to be recognized by the state.

This could open the door to a challenge to DOMA in the very near future. Things are certainly getting interesting:


Calif. AG Asks Court: Stop Gay Marriages

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The court challenge came as 25 gay couples exchanged wedding vows Friday on the steps of village hall in New Paltz, N.Y., opening up another front in the growing national debate over gay marriage.

A county clerk in New Mexico issued 26 licenses earlier this month before the state attorney general declared them invalid. More than 30 gay couples in Iowa City, Iowa, were denied marriage licenses Friday by an openly lesbian county official who said she must uphold the law.

"What we're witnessing in America today is the flowering of the largest civil rights movement the country's had in a generation," said New Paltz' Green Party mayor, Jason West.

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer refused a request for an injunction against the New Paltz ceremonies, noting that such a measure should only be a last resort. He did not issue an opinion on whether the marriages were legal.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=5&u=/ap/20040228/ap_on_re_us/gay_marriage

[Kathy in Cambridge]

1. I'm Surprised Provincetown hasn't already

and I'm also surprised Cambridge hasn't...

[Mairead]

2. I thought the Court stayed their order. No?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

4. May 16th is the date they can marry legally, but the convention resumes

on March 11th. They may pass an amendment that would allow civil unions and not marriage.

[polmaven]

5. Even if they do,

it will still have to be approved again in the next session, and then go to the ballot in November, 2006 before it will change the constitution. In the meantime, from May 2004 through November 2006 gays and lesbians can legally marry.

[DuctapeFatwa]

3. Didn't this come up a while back about registering black people to vote?

If I'm not mistaken, there were attempts of various kinds to stop it, that were not entirely successful.

Today, advances in technology have made it possible to limit damage to regime objectives independent of voter registration drives among undesirable populations.

The regime is appreciative of the significant contribution of the Diebold company, and feels that the endemic homophobia among the maintream population will be the most effective strategy in correcting the actions of overzealous judges and legislators in the 1960s.

[arcos]

6. kick n/t