Moments after posting about gays in Iowa marrying…..I find out (via Perez Hilton of all places) that the judge has stayed his ruling, meaning the whole thing has been halted. 1 step forward, 2 steps back.
Monthly Archive for August, 2007
Less then 24 hours after a judge had thrown out a ban on gay marriage in Iowa Sean Fritz and Tim McQuillan, two college students, were married by a minister. To wit:
On Thursday, Polk County Judge Robert Hanson ruled that Iowa’s 1998 Defense of Marriage Act, which allowed marriage only between a man and a woman, violated the constitutional rights of due process and equal protection of six gay couples who had sued.
The ruling cleared the way for gay couples across the state to apply for marriage licenses in Polk County, and more than a dozen had by Friday morning.
The window of opportunity could be narrow, though.
County attorney John Sarcone promised a quick appeal, and he immediately asked Hanson for a stay that would prevent gays and lesbians from getting marriage licenses until the appeal was resolved. A hearing on the stay request is likely next week, said Camilla Taylor, an attorney with Lambda Legal, a New York-based gay rights organization.
In the meantime, the applications began rolling in.
The marriage license approval process normally takes three business days, but couples can pay a $5 fee and get a judge to sign a waiver allowing them to skip the waiting period.
That’s what Iowa State University students Fritz and McQuillan did.
“We’re both in our undergrad programs and we thought maybe we’d put it off until applying at graduate school, but when this opportunity came up we thought maybe we wouldn’t get the opportunity again,” Fritz said. “Maybe the chance won’t come again.”
Friday morning, with the waiver and marriage license in hand, Stringer married the two men, concluding the ceremony by saying, “This is a legal document and you are married.”
The two students then kissed and hugged.
To a disturbingly large portion of Americans this means the world is about to end. Some how I don’t see it.
Got another one today. When will the madness end?
Britney Spears’ new single leaked to Perez Hilton. Its not good, so computerized it could be me singing though.
This is a summery of what my ill-fated boxing career was like.
(via With Leather)
This is an interesting bit of personal news: Apparently Kos, founder of liberal blog juggernaut Daily Kos, loves ferrets. Who knew?
I am not a cat or dog person. I am a ferret person. And I still mourn the loss of my two ferrets six years ago (as I mourn for this diarists lost little one as well). Real children (and California law) have prevented me from adopting new ones. But there isn’t a better pet in the world.
Probably means Kos won’t be voting for Rudy Giuliani any time soon.
Perhaps the worst part of this whole Senator Craig scandal is that it inspires awful newspaper stories like this.
I was vaguely aware that a while back Slate launched a video site but I must confess to not having visited before. If they come up with more quality material like this video reenactment of Senator Craig’s time in a Minnesota bathroom I might have to make it a daily visit.
“Of course, I believe I have an unfair edge over most of my colleagues right now. My mind works faster than my mouth does. Washington would probably be a better place if more people took a moment to think before they spoke.”
–Senator Tim Johnson, in his first public appearance since suffering a stroke.
I don’t think I’d go so far as to call this “the most addictive game ever”…but its a good time waster. Also, I suck at it. (via The News Hole)