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August 12, 2004
San Francisco Gay Marriages Voided
This was predicted, but still very sad.
The court said the city illegally issued the certificates and performed the ceremonies, since state law defined marriage as a union between a man and woman.The justices separately decided with a 5-2 vote to nullify the 3,995 marriages performed between February 12 and March 11, when the court halted the weddings. Their legality, Justice Joyce Kennard wrote, must wait until courts resolve the constitutionality of state laws that restrict marriages to opposite-sex couples.
The same-sex marriages had virtually no legal value, but powerful symbolic value. Their nullification by the high court dismayed Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, the first same-sex couple to receive a marriage license in San Francisco. [read more at CNN]
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