Add Kern, Merced and Kings counties to the places in California where officials are resisting the California Supreme Court’s recent ruling on gay marriage.
- Kern County Clerk Ann Barnett plans to stop ALL marriage ceremonies in the county on June 14.
- Merced County’s Stephen Jones initially said the same thing about stopping all marriage ceremonies, but later retracted the statement under pressure from county officials who agreed to hire more clerks and provide more office space.
- In Kings County, the clerk is citing a legal loophole as throwing in doubt whether the county has to actually issue the new marriage licenses starting June 17.
Meantime, New York's Republican-controlled legislature has balked at passing a bill to legalize gay marriage in the Empire State. So, New York Governor David Paterson last month directed state agencies to work around the legislature, earning him a lawsuit from Republican lawmakers and a conservative group based in Arizona. (story)
Using gay marriage to 'scare people to vote?' That dog, as they say in the American South, won’t hunt this time. The gay-marriage issue, seized on by President Bush’s former political guru, Karl Rove, may have been moderately helpful to conservatives in 2004; it won’t distract voters from other concerns — the economy, health care and the war in Iraq — in 2008.
Conservatives need to go back to the drawing board to disillusion the American public; they're no longer listening to the same 'old' arguments, and they no longer want the country to move forward VIA "business as usual." Doing business as usual is what got us to this point; a sluggish economy, outrageous gas prices, global warming, and a war that costs more per month than the Russian Federation's yearly gross national product.
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