Four same-sex couples issued marriage licenses, wed in St. Louis
Source: LGBTQ Nation
ST. LOUIS, Mo. St. Louis Mayor Francis G. Slay announced Thursday that marriage licenses were issued to four same-sex couples by St. Louis Recorder of Deeds Sharon Carpenter on Wednesday evening, coinciding with the one year anniversary of the Defense of Marriage Act being struck down.
The four couples were then married at City Hall as St. Louis mounts a direct challenge to the states same-sex marriage ban.
St. Louis is a city that doesnt tolerate discrimination, said Slay, standing beside the couples. We are sending a message on whats right, and I cant think of anything more right than this.
The ceremonies were performed in Mayor Slays office and officiated by Municipal Judge Joseph Murphy. Carpenter issued the marriage licenses to the couples, despite Missouris 2004 constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.
Read more: http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/06/st-louis-marriage/
The floodgates are open!
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,731 posts)It appears that the floodgates are indeed open.
William769
(55,145 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,731 posts)tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)Lookie, they aren't monsters!
Poor Righties... they are tumbling so fast down this hill they aren't going even going to be able to recover their shoes to walk away with any dignity at the bottom.
William769
(55,145 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)William769
(55,145 posts)excringency
(105 posts)declared Rabbi Susan Talve as she married Bruce Yampolsky and Terry Garrett, two native St. Louisans and military veterans who have been together for 30 years.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/the-platform/editorial-holy-chutzpah-st-louis-takes-on-the-state-s/article_9a89ce88-bc41-5a84-9034-65328d1c3505.html
joanbarnes
(1,722 posts)Caused us to forgo church, pious priests preaching against equality. Not going back, ever.
sheshe2
(83,746 posts)Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/yael-t-abouhalkah/article624486.html#storylink=cpy
William769
(55,145 posts)I know, I know he's trying to cover his ass for November. Fucking idiot.
ETA: See post #15 for my misspeaking.
Ino
(3,366 posts)Since then, there has been no effort by Republican legislative leaders to reconsider the gay marriage ban. But Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon again said on Thursday that it should be put to another vote, and he supports repealing it. He said there has been a "strong march toward a positive arc of history" on minds being changed about gay marriage.
(snip)
Last year, Nixon announced that Missouri would accept joint income tax returns from legally married gay couples, mirroring a new policy by the federal Internal Revenue Service.
Slay, Nixon and Koster are Democrats. Because of Missouri's term limits, Nixon can't seek another term as governor.
So who is a fucking idiot??
William769
(55,145 posts)Better?
I will also edit my other post.
Ino
(3,366 posts)I don't think doing one's job (to uphold the state's laws, no matter how odious one finds them personally) is reprehensible or playing politics to cover his ass in November. It's called DOING YOUR JOB. His very public statements about his OWN views on gay marriage are decidedly risky in Missouri...
From your link...
"Koster says he personally supports marriage equality... He said in a written statement that many people have changed their minds about marriage in the past decade but that it is his duty as attorney general to defend Missouris laws."
(FYI, Missouri is largely conservative, except for the overwhelmingly Democratic cities of St. Louis, Kansas City & Columbia.)
William769
(55,145 posts)And they did their jobs quite well. And look where it's gotten us on marriage equality.
Sometime when something is unconstitutional you just have to come out and say it and stand up and say this is law is unconstitutional and I will not defend it.
You can defend the AG all you want. He is wrong and will be on the wrong side of history. But hey, that's his choice.
sheshe2
(83,746 posts)The times they are a changing William.
Ino
(3,366 posts)Koster has a lot of experience being on the wrong side of things.