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Thread ID: 20080 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2005-09-08
2005-09-08 03:00 | User Profile
Schwarzenegger Vows Gay Marriage Bill Veto
September 7, 2005 SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Wednesday he will veto a bill that would have made California the first state to legalize same-sex marriage through its elected lawmakers.
Schwarzenegger said the legislation, given final approval Tuesday by lawmakers, would conflict with the intent of voters when they approved an initiative five years ago. Proposition 22 was placed on the ballot to prevent California from recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other states or countries.
"We cannot have a system where the people vote and the Legislature derails that vote," the governor's press secretary, Margita Thompson, said in a statement. "Out of respect for the will of the people, the governor will veto (the bill)."
Proposition 22 stated that "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." The bill to be vetoed by Schwarzenegger would have defined marriage as a civil contract between "two persons." In Massachusetts, recognition of gay marriages came through a court ruling.
Gay rights advocates accused Schwarzenegger of betraying the bipartisan ideals that helped get him elected in the 2003 recall.
"Clearly he's pandering to an extreme right wing, which was not how he got elected," said Geoff Kors, executive director of Equality California, one of the bill's sponsors. "He got elected with record numbers of lesbian and gay voters who had not previously voted for a Republican, and he sold us out." Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, said she was not surprised by word of Schwarzenegger's pending veto.
"Any girlie man could have vetoed this legislation," she said, referring to a term Schwarzenegger used previously to mock Democratic legislators. "A real man demonstrating real leadership as governor of the most populous state in the nation would have chosen a different course of action."
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2005-09-08 03:46 | User Profile
Well, whatever's up with the California legislature, he did the right thing.
2005-09-08 12:50 | User Profile
Not signing a bill to expand the state into homosexual marriage is not clearly pandering to an extreme right wing, especially in a state where the overwhelming majority of citizens voted to ban homosexual marriage (just to have a judge spit on decency and democracy)? Is there any lie too stupid for liberals to tell?
Anyway, California already has homosexual marriage. Who signed that bill? This would only give homosexual unions the name marriage.
2005-09-08 13:48 | User Profile
[font=Times New Roman][size=3]The thing driving the Governator on almost every issue right now is that he's sick of a tax-and-spend, F--- the people's will, out of hand legislature. The executive and the legislative are firmly at cross-purposes here (a good thing IMO), and I cringe when I think of what might happen after Gov. S. is gone.
I'm not wild about him, but he recognizes who's dragging CA down, at least.[/size][/font]
2005-09-08 14:09 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Hivemindgammahydra7][font=Times New Roman][size=3]T...and I cringe when I think of what might happen after Gov. S. is gone.
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He will be replaced with someone with a last name of Gomez, Rodriguez, Jameriz, Gonzales etc, take your pick...
Then the festivities will really get going :holiday:
2005-09-08 14:21 | User Profile
[QUOTE=JoseyWales]He will be replaced with someone with a last name of Gomez, Rodriguez, Jameriz, Gonzales etc, take your pick...
Then the festivities will really get going :holiday:[/QUOTE] I hear that Rafael Montero threw his name into the mix for the next election . . . :dry:
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