Monday, February 23, 2004


Yahoo! News - Calif. Attorney General Sees End to Gay Marriages
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California's attorney general predicted on Monday that the courts would bar same-sex marriages in San Francisco within weeks and invalidate the thousands of gay marriages the city has sanctioned over the past two weeks.

"I think it will be weeks and my best prediction is that the marriages will be invalidated, the courts will direct people that wish to change the law to the legislative process," Bill Lockyer, the Democratic attorney general, told Reuters in a telephone interview.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has criticized the marriages and asked Lockyer to resolve the issue immediately.

"I believe strongly in the law that we have right now in California which respects domestic partnership rights and I think that that's a very good law," the former action film star said in Washington. "I believe in equal rights absolutely and in protecting that."

Well Arnie, that would mean marriage, wouldn't it?

OK, guess I'll give Arnold a break here. He really is caught in the middle of this thing, not much he could do but enforce the law.