New Process for Marriage in SB County (temporarily, that is)
Posted by: Jessica Austin | 06/09/2008 9:13 PM
San Bernardino County Auditor/Controller Larry Walker is changing things up a bit in terms of how marriage ceremonies will be conducted within the County...now that marriage ceremonies will soon include gay marriage. Apparently, there are currently three locations where marriage ceremonies are performed: San Bernardino, Montclair, and Apple Valley.
Beginning June 17th, those three locations will dwindle down to just San Bernardino, until "training, staffing, and technical resources are brought to satisfactory levels," said Walker. Read the full story here.
It will be very interesting to see how not only the implications of gay marriage being conducted in the County will play out, but also the implications of just having one office to perform marriages out of. According to Walker, about 90% of marriages are conducted in San Bernardino anyways... which could suggest that this won't be too hectic. Walker states that his only goal is that the whole transition goes smoothly.
All of this just makes me wonder what happens if California voters ban gay marriage in November? While some polls may suggest otherwise, it still remains a very obvious possibility that we will. The question then becomes: what next?
Regardless of one's stance on gay or traditional marriage, it just seems commonsensical to have the state hold off everything until gay marriage is "legally legalized" (no pun intended).
This is why many sports ban the use of performance enhancing drugs. Another form of doping is blood...
i disagree. when brown vs the board of education whent down should integration have been suspended until a refferendum changing the constitution to legalize segragation could have been put to the voters?
Josh, you are comparing apples to oranges. On March 7, 2000, California voters declared by a more than a 60% majority to NOT recognize same-sex marriages. Or did you already forget Prop 22? Or perhaps, you feel that California voters shouldn't have a say in the matters of this state?
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
All y'all can limit the number of venues all y'all want - us gay folk are going to get hitched anyways and y'all ain't going to collect no revenues on marriages licenses or hotel taxes from gay couples and your wedding shops ain't going to get no business. Meanwhile all our gay dollars are going to LA, and San Francisco, and San Diego, and Laguna Beach. I wish I could loan you a knife so you could cut your appendage of choice to spite yourself with.
And just remember, we are going to have gay marriage come November 5th, so Surrender, Dorthy.
"The right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right compared to which ‘the right to attend an integrated school, the right to sit where one pleases on a bus, the right to go into any hotel or recreation area or place of amusement, regardless of one’s skin or color or race’ are minor indeed. Even political rights, like the right to vote, and nearly all other rights enumerated in the Constitution, are secondary to the inalienable human rights to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence; and to this category the right to home and marriage unquestionably belongs."
That's Hannah Arendt in Dissent in 1959.
The civil rights movement was aimed to uphold/strengtened the moral value of our society!according to Martin Luther King Jr.
The marriage must be a institution between man and woman as it is written in our american dictionary and the Bible.
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