Same Sex Marriage @ MindSay 
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE4AB6C020081112?virtualBrandChannel=10112&pageNumber=1
Reuters) - Dozens of gay and lesbian couples planned to wed in Connecticut on Wednesday after a judge cleared the way for the state to become the nation's second to allow same-sex marriage.
Here is a look at legal history of rights for same-sex couples in several countries since 1989.
1989
June - Denmark passes a law allowing homosexuals to enter a registered partnership, giving them the same housing, pension and immigration rights as married heterosexual couples.
1999
December - Vermont's top court permits same-sex civil unions, a first decision of its kind in the United States.
1993
August - Norway becomes the second country to allow gays and lesbians to have registered partnerships, giving them rights almost equal to those of married couples.
1994
June - Sweden's parliament approves law allowing same-sex marriage in ceremonies similar to a civil marriage.
2000
December - The Netherlands approves laws allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt children. Dutch law had recognized registered partnerships since 1998.
July - Carolyn Conrad and Kathleen Peterson in Vermont become the first same-sex couple in the United States to be legally united.
2002
July - Germany allows gay couples to register partnerships with local civil authorities.
2003
June - Belgium allows same-sex marriages.
November - Massachusetts' top court rules that a ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional in landmark decision that paves way for the United States' first same-sex marriages.
2004
May - Dozens of gay and lesbian couples exchange vows in Massachusetts.
July - Two Argentines become the first gay couple in Latin America to use a new law legalizing same-sex civil unions.
July - French court annuls France's first gay marriage, which took place in June. France granted all couples the right to form civil unions in 1999.
2005
April - Connecticut lawmakers permit same-sex civil unions in legislation that takes effect in October that year.
June - Spain's parliament approves a law legalizing gay marriage.
July - Canada allows gay marriage.
September - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoes a bill that would have allowed gay couples to marry in California.
December - Grainne Close and her partner Shannon Sickels become the first in the Britain to marry, two weeks after Civil Partnership legislation came into effect.
2006
March - Czech parliament overrides a presidential veto to allow same-sex couples to register their partnerships.
July - U.S. House of Representatives fails to pass a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage weeks after the U.S. Senate did the same.
October - California appeals court upholds the state's ban on same-sex marriage.
October - New Jersey's Supreme Court recognizes right to same-sex civil unions.
November - South Africa's acting president signs into law Civil Union Act 2006, giving same-sex couples the same rights as heterosexual ones.
2007
May - New Hampshire's governor signs bill that allows same-sex civil unions from January 1, 2008.
June - Gay marriage in Massachusetts withstands a four-year effort by social conservatives to ban the unions when the Democratic-controlled legislature votes to block an amendment that would have put the question of gay marriage to a statewide vote.
2008
May 15 - The California Supreme Court rules the state cannot bar same-sex marriages, marking a major victory for gay rights advocates that may have national implications.
June 3 - California's secretary of state says a proposed state constitutional amendment to limit marriage to unions between men and women will appear on the November 4 ballot.
June 16 - California performs its first legally recognized same-sex weddings.
Oct 10 - Connecticut Supreme Court overturns ban on same-sex marriage.
November 4 - California votes to ban same-sex marriages, triggering protests by thousands in Los Angeles.
November 12 - Connecticut's first same-sex marriage licenses are issued.
(Writing by David Cutler, Paul Grant and Jason Szep)
Whatever the spiel ......
The bottom line is this: Vote yes on Prop. 8 and you will be rescinding a law that not only passed not that long ago but that WILL OUTLAW MARRIAGE BETWEEN SAME SEX COUPLES.
We had come so far ..... what happened? Someone didn't get their way the first time round so they have to make peoples lives miserable two times around? WTF???
Let it be ...... let the law STAND! VOTE NO ON PROPOSITION 8.
My mothers church has her believing that this has nothing to do with same sex marriage and as much as I tell her to read what it is she believes her church first and foremost. I'm disgusted.
Proud to be a Obama supporter. Proud to vote NO on Prop. 8.
I'VE VOTED ....... HAVE YOU ??????
Peace. J.
And then having the legal rights that go along with that...
(says the ubu in me: when you are happy, you don't start wars. fun is subversive)
Moonbat State Legislators in California are preparing to overturn the people’s Proposition 22 that passed with 2/3 of those voting which defined marriage as between one and one woman. The Leftists, Secular Humanists, Homosexual Activists, the Moonbat State Judiciary and even Republican Governator Schwarzenegger are preparing to overturn the statute that was passed overwhelming by the citizens of California. Indeed if Proposition 22 was a State Amendment instead it would be the Law of California that only Federal Legislation or the Federal Judicial system could overturn.
This is a classic example of the attack on Christianity that stands for Biblical morality. American Moonbats and homosexual activists have long had an agenda to transform America into an egalitarian moral relativist Secular Humanist nation thus terminating America’s heritage of Christianity.
This agenda is Christophobic. It is an agenda that utilizes the term “homophobia” as accusation of racism as if homosexuals were not moral deviants. Two-Thirds of the voters of California understand Biblical morality even if they are not dedicated to follow the way of Christ. No one is perfect; the duty of humanity is to find the road to perfection. Even murderous Islamists comprehend that there is a Creator that has created a natural order of things.
I am a Christian and I admit I am not perfect; however I seek the Creator of the natural order not the Creator’s natural order as something superior to the Creator. That is the essence of Secular Humanism: Humanity is all there is and humanity’s sentient existence is the highest order of all that exists; thus humanity is arbiter of right and wrong relative to what is right in humanity’s eyes. Secular Humanism is a religion with the collective of humanity as its god without even understanding that agenda is Theo-humanism denying the moral standard of natures Creator.
Part of that natural order is God Almighty created male and female to perpetuate nature’s various species. Many Conservative theologians believe there are two creation stories of humanity because the first represents the two individuals Adam and Eve: Adam created from the dust of the earth and Eve from the person of Adam; the second creation story is the Creator created male and female with Adam representing the males and Eve representing the females. In both cases God created Adam and Eve for the natural order of producing children and nurturing them; God did not create an unnatural of Adam and Steve or Andria and Eve.
Even Liberal slanted California supports the traditional marriage of male to a female rather than the homosexual freak show of male to male or female to female.
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Victory for Traditional Marriage in California
by News Staff/AH : Oct 6, 2006 : CBS5, AP
Breaking Christian News
"It is rational for the Legislature to preserve the opposite-sex definition of marriage, which has existed throughout history. . ."
According to an AP report, a state appeals court on Thursday, upheld California's ban on same-sex marriage. The 1st District Court of Appeal's decision reversed a ruling made in March of 2005, by a San Francisco trial judge.
The District Court agreed with the state's attorney general who stated that "it is up to the California Legislature, not the courts, to change the traditional definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman."
Justice William McGuiness wrote on behalf of himself and Associate Justice Joanne Parrilli, "It is rational for the Legislature to preserve the opposite-sex definition of marriage, which has existed throughout history. The state may legitimately support these parallel institutions while also acknowledging their differences."
Gay marriage advocates have vowed to appeal the decision.
The homosexual agenda has been seriously derailed in recent months. Praise the Name of Jesus Christ!
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