Seattle To Recognize Gay Marriages
From the
KOMO-TV web site:
bq. Mayor Greg Nickels has jumped into the roiling debate over gay marriage, vowing to recognize the marriages of gay city employees who tie the knot elsewhere and pushing for a measure to extend protections for gay married couples throughout the city.
This is one very complex issue - who has legal right to declare that any two people can or cannot marry. I predict that in ten years, this will be a non-issue and Gay couples will be fully accepted and given legal rights but for now, there is a lot of old-school knee-jerk reaction going on and people are trying to stop these people from celebrating their relationships.
Sad really - it's not like marriage between a man and a woman is any guarantee to a healthy long-term relationship...
Posted by DaveH at March 8, 2004 9:34 AM