Lockyer pleads to top court
State justices give S.F. until Friday to defend licenses


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O'Donnell inspires other artists
Gays, lesbians no longer limited to backing up straights' ceremonies



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this is the story of a petty bureaucrat loosing power... taking mean and spiteful action.. we need to move ahead..we need more pockets of resistance... NOW!.. we need everyone to say they are queer and get married... this is a revolution... come to san francisco.. go to your streets.. make noise do not stop till bush is out of office..


Social Security won't take S.F. licenses
White House's first bureaucratic obstacle to same-sex marriages

The Bush administration has taken its first bureaucratic poke at same-sex marriages in San Francisco, ordering administrators nationwide to reject requests for name changes on Social Security accounts based on any marriage licenses -- same-sex or opposite-sex -- recently issued by the city.

The order from the Social Security Administration, disclosed Friday, was mainly about record keeping and did not address larger questions of eligibility for a spouse's Social Security benefits or other federal marriage rights.
But it was a message of presidential disapproval for the weddings that have vaulted San Francisco into the national spotlight.


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California court to consider challenges to gay nuptials
By Maura Dolan
Los Angeles Times
SAN FRANCISCO —SAN FRANCISCO —The California Supreme Court yesterday refused to immediately halt San Francisco's same-sex marriages, but the court indicated that it would swiftly consider hearing legal challenges to the city's decision to allow those nuptials.