Gay Marriage Spreads To West Virginia
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
Posted: March 6, 2004 12:01 a.m. ET
(Charleston, West Virginia) A lesbian couple filed suit Friday to force the Kanawha County Clerk's Office to start issuing same-sex marriage licenses. Charleston, the state capital, is the largest city in the county. Pat Link and Sheila Chambers went to court after Clerk Alma King said she would not issue a license to them because state law describes marriage as a union between a woman and a man. "We will do whatever the courts direct," said David Dodd, a spokesperson for King. "But we will not issue a marriage license without the court telling us to."


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Thank Gavin Newsom For Standing Up for Gay Marriage
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Who would have thought that the breakthrough in gay marriage would come from a wealthy, Irish Catholic, straight married man?

In the face of fear on the part of many in his own political party as well as loathing by the Christian Right, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has demonstrated that there is at least one last heroic politician willing to stand up for freedom and justice and do the right thing regardless of what the polls or pundits might claim.