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See more photos from LA Pride Weekend here | Photo by Tom Andrews/LAist
A conglomerate of nine pro same-sex marriage groups released a memo today stating that it would hurt the gay rights movement in the long term if gay couples sued states of the federal government for their marriages to be recognized outside of California because. Such action could open the door to bad court rulings.
“Pushing the federal government before we have a critical mass of states recognizing same-sex relationships or suing in states where the courts aren’t ready is likely to get us bad rulings,” the document stated. Instead, they say they will press states and courts that are already friendly to the issue and ready "to do the right thing."
The group anticipates such lawsuits because California, unlike Massachusetts, has no language prohibiting out-of-state couples to wed. The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog explores the issue:
But non-California couples may return home to decidedly unfavorably legal landscapes. For instance, to wind down a relationship, writes Koppel, same-sex couples could have to navigate a process that forces them to appear in three different courts, including a civil court that treats the separation as a business breakup. Mitchell Katine, an attorney who handles same-sex separations, says: “It’s not fair to parties to have their relationship of 20 years treated like a breakup of two people who operated a Kinko’s.”
A bump in travel reservations and wedding plans has boosted certain sectors of the state's economy as tens of thousands of couples plan their trips to the Golden State.
"Make Change, Not Lawsuits" is a joint advisory put released by the ACLU, GLAD, Lambda Legal, Nat. Center for Lesbian Rights, Equality Federation, Freedom to Marry, GLAAD, Human Rights Campaign and Nat. Gay and Lesbian Taskforce.
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OH! I get it...the headline is a sassy anal sex double entendre ! clever
ps - look at the body on that dude on right! Dayyyum
It still kills me that people can't see this as an obvious civil rights issue... Calling a same-sex marriage a legal union, and treating a same-sex divorce like a business split, is so "separate but equal".
I'll take the one on the right.
Wow. Two guys in speedos and a pun about anal sex leading an article about one of the most divisive issues in the country. Good job, LAist. Thanks a lot.
Allain, thank you. You're right, the photo, although relevant to this past weekend, is out of context. I've been covering this issue almost five days a week and finding rights-free photos has been become harder and harder (unless I begin to repeat photos). I needed a photo and needed one fast. Pride Weekend photos were something at hand and were relevant, so I just used one of them.
As to the pun, it was not intentional. I use "in the end" often when referring to time, especially when there is no hard date attached to it. I didn't even realize it was a pun until I saw the first comment.