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4/28/2009
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More: Couples Gleefully Exchange Vows Amid Loved Ones
Author: Register Staff Source: The Des Moines Register (IA)
Title: COUPLES GLEEFULLY EXCHANGE VOWS AMID LOVED ONES
Toni Heard and Michelle McBride waded through a crowd of strangers to get married on Monday at 11 a.m. in the courthouse in Council Bluffs.
"Everyone can come; the more the merrier," said McBride, 29, of Omaha, Neb.
Her mother, Kelly McBride, 46, hobbled along behind, using a cane. Because of her back problems and because she is the only family member with a driver's license, the three-day waiting period for Heard and Michelle McBride to marry was waived by Pottawattamie County court officials.
Gay and lesbian advocates as well as media groups crowded the elevators headed for Courtroom 4A on the first day that same-sex marriage licenses were issued in Iowa.
Kelly McBride's eyes filled with tears. Both her daughter and Heard had been victims of crimes as youngsters and only started healing when they found each other, she said.
In 2007, Heard and Michelle McBride were married in the Wiccan religion but wanted to marry in Iowa for legal reasons.
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| But The "Babble" Says | Apr 30th. at 4:13:27 pm EDT
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Hernesvoice (Lake Oswego, Oregon) - Email Me
Most of the RR gloss over the passages that call them to social justice and mercy for the oppressed....they get right to the "burn in hell"..."you're living in sin"..."do as I say do, not as I do."
I like that bumper sticker.."Christians aren't perfect...just f--ked up!"
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| Hooray!!! | Apr 29th. at 6:17:14 pm EDT
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Cloudspeaker (Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan) - Email Me
As a Canadian gay pagan, my heart often broke on hearing my brothers & sisters in the US recount thief awefull experiences. It makes my heart soar to hear that the wash of civil unions for same-sex couples has FINALY reached our southern neighbours.
It is hard to listen to a country bill itself as "leading" the freeworld while violating the rights of it's own citizens with the regularity of clockwork. Hooray for progress!!!!!!!
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| When My Wife And I Had Our Commitment Ceremony... | Apr 29th. at 1:44:55 pm EDT
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GreenRain (Sedalia, Missouri) - Email Me
...I told myself I wasn't going to cry.
So much for that Idea. I bawled like a baby. And that's not even in a recognized marriage.
This reminded me so much of that day. I know Iowa is only a short bit away... but I too am pigheaded and don't want to move. I figure, the more people who know my wife and I as a good couple who love each other, the more who may be persuaded to allow same-sex marriage... one day...
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| Straw Men,ad Hominem, And Other Pointless Attacks. | Apr 29th. at 11:54:41 am EDT
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Eran Rathan (Old Town, Maine) - Email Me
1. Certain states (New Hampshire being the one that comes to mind, as it is the most familiar to me) have laws such that coming to that state for the express purpose of circumventing the marriage laws of one's home state is forbidden. Additionally, the law also states that citizens travelling outside of NH to be married (expressly to circumvent NH law) will not have their marriages recognized by the State of NH. Should be interesting to see if Nebraska has similar laws on the books.
2. Any nonesense of 'well, if i want to marry my dog..." BS is exactly that: BS. marriage is a contract, like any other, and can only be entered into by legally competent and consenting adults. (and I am using the definitions from Black's Law Dictionary for 'competent' and 'consenting') . Straw man arguments such as that have been and should rightly be dismissed out of hand.
3. If anyone is serious about doing something about 'protecting marriage' (whatever that means) , they should be working on making divorce more difficult and onerous. Or, the most logical thing to do would be: get the government out of the business or regulating marriage - label it a particular class of contract (which is what it is anyways, the only reason the government has any interest in it anyways is for tax reasons and to protect the public health via discouraging inbreeding) . That way, any number or type of competent and consenting adults can form whatever kind of marriage they want.
4. I have yet to see any salient points why extending marriage rights to all is not in the best interest of the country.
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| Constitutional Crisis | Apr 29th. at 9:15:41 am EDT
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Ahr-Ohn (Bridgeport, Connecticut) - Email Me
The courts of one state are to respect the findings of the courts of another.
"If the couple encounter legal situations where marriage is required to benefit, McBride said she will challenge it in Nebraska's courts."
So, if a White Woman marries a Black Man in Massachussetts, in 1950, and they move to Georgia in 1954, should they be lynched, or prosecuted for Incitement to Riot?
If a 14yo girl marries a Goat, is she to get married students quarters when attending college in Boston, at the age of 17?
There isn't just the question of what the Constitution says, but what a state government should ask the neighbors to put up with.
Something else to examine, Legal Marriage gives legal and religious blessing to an act of such disgusting abuse, that children shouldn't have their faces rubbed in it. How're states to regulate the physiological and cultural justifications and expenses?
In the Lowlands you'll want compromise; in the Highlands,you'll want Integrity; In Marriage, you'll want deep contemplation undistracted by the facts.
Arawn
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| A Cheer From Illinois.... | Apr 28th. at 8:57:58 pm EDT
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
It's interesting to know that Iowa did this. It means however that we now become a buffer between them and those protestors in Indiana.
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| I'm From South Dakota | Apr 28th. at 11:12:47 am EDT
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Artio SD (Kimball, South Dakota) - Email Me
and I'm rather proud of our southern neighbor. But since I'm also from a state that passed a law defineing marriage as something that can only occur between a man and woman (I voted against it for the record) I expect that I'm going to hear alot of complaing from my fellow South Dakotans. I'd move but since I'm as pigheaded as any South Dakotan I chose to stay and continue to try and change peoples minds here. Who knows maybe I will acomplish something.
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