30 days after California’s Supreme Court ruled against the law that forbid same-sex marriages, the state is bracing for wedding ceremonies to begin this week. And unlike Massachusetts, California doesn’t have a residency law, meaning gay couples are going to be coming from all over the country to get married here. It’s going to be great for our economy; especially the Bay Area’s, because you know a lot of them are going to want to get married in San Francisco.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom presided over the first such ceremony yesterday evening at 5:01, just past the deadline, of a lesbian couple in their 80s who had been together for 55 years. Monogamous couples in extremely long-term relationships allowed to make their union legal?! This country is certainly going to hell in a handbasket!! *eyeroll*
(Tell me again how gay marriage threatens heterosexual marriage? That’s what I always hear the bigots bleating, but none of them are ever really able to explain how that works.)
Not everyone is welcoming the marriages: the country clerks of Kern and Butte counties have suspended all weddings that were scheduled to take place at their offices, and won’t be holding any more for the forseeable future, meaning no one, gay or straight, can get married there. Petty cunts. I hope all their kids and spouses turn out to be gay.
KTVU reports that 3 members of the Westboro Baptist Church are in Contra Costa County–the county immediately to the east of mine. It’s a good thing I don’t drive anymore, or I’d be sorely tempted to go over there and “accidentally” run them over on the courthouse lawn.
