Yahoo! News - Calif. Governor Tries to Stop Gay Marriages-Report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hours after a second Superior Court judge refused to stop same-sex weddings in San Francisco, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger told the state's attorney general on Friday to take "immediate steps" to stop the gay marriages, the Los Angeles Times reported.

According to a report published on the newspaper's Web site, Schwarzenegger sent a letter to Attorney General Bill Lockyer saying, because the city's actions "are directly contrary to state law and present an imminent risk to civil order, I hereby direct you to take immediate steps to obtain a definite judicial resolution of this controversy."

A spokeswoman for the California attorney general told the Times that her office had been in contact with the governor's staff and planned to seek a judgment in the court case soon declaring San Francisco's actions in violation of state law.

She also told the newspaper that the city's actions posed no risk to public safety and said the governor had no authority over the independently elected Lockyer.

"The governor cannot direct the attorney general," spokeswoman Hallye Jordan told the Times. "He can direct the highway patrol. He can direct 'Terminator 4'. But he can't tell the attorney general what to do. However, we are his lawyer, and we are moving as expeditiously -- with deliberation -- as possible."

Seems to me the only "imminent risk" to "civil order" is coming from those on the right who laid down in front of a line of people waiting to be married. For this reason perhaps my thoughts of "burning down cities" isn't such a good idea after all.

As I'm blogging this, I'm listening to Melissa Etheridge's new song called "Tuesday Morning" about Mark Bingham, the gay man who stood up on Flight 93. It's bringing tears to my eyes-

"Even though he could not marry
Or teach your children in our schools
Because who he wants to love
Is breaking your God's rules
He stood up on a Tuesday morning
In the terror he was brave
And he made his choice
And without a doubt
A hundred lives he must have saved

Now you cannot change this
You can't erase this
You can't pretend this is not the truth

And the things you might take for granted
Your inalienable rights
Some might choose to deny him
Even though he gave his life
Can you live with yourself in the land of the free
And make him less of a hero than the other three
Well it might begin to change ya
In a field in Pennsylvania

Stand up America
Here the bell now as it tolls
Wake up America
It's Tuesday Morning
Come on let's roll"

"It's Tuesday Morning" should be our new tag line.