State high court invalidates SF's same-sex marriages ...

[Dr Fate]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/08/12/SAMESEX12.TMP

San Francisco's attempt to legalize same-sex marriages, which made the city a magnet for gay and lesbian couples from around the nation and the focus of a nationwide political uproar, ran into a roadblock Thursday at the California Supreme Court.

The justices ruled unanimously that Mayor Gavin Newsom overstepped his authority when he ordered the marriage licenses issued on Feb. 12 in defiance of a state law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

By a 5-2 vote, the court ruled that none of the 3,955 couples who flocked to City Hall in response to Newsom's decree was ever legally married or entitled to the rights of spouses. The court said their $82 license fees should be refunded...

[zmdem]

1. Yep,

The legislative branch makes the law, the judicial branch says what the law means. The executive branch enforces the law and the Mayor of SF forgot this fact of republican government.

Hence he got slapped down.

[Dr Fate]

3. Yep...

...and some day those opposed to equal rights will be museum pieces.

[Moderator]

2. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=745554