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recognizes marriages between one man
and one woman and noted that state law supercedes city law when it comes to
marriage. They also say that Newsom violated criminal law as well, citing the
California Penal Code in which section 115 “prohibits the knowing procurement
of any false or forged instrument to be filed or recorded in any public office,
making such an act a felony punishable by up to three years in prison.”
Pizer said what will be determined in the cases is whether or not Newsom has
the authority to “read the Constitution and make a determination that
there’s a statute in violation of the Constitution.”
“It’s a little too early to predict how both cases will address
that issue,” Pizer said. “The question does shift to what the [California]
Constitution requires. That would then effect questions of whether this was
an abuse of the executive power or not or a trivial abuse or a serious abuse.
“The right wing is claiming that this is anarchy and making quite inflated
assertions. Civilization in California is percolating just fine. What has happened
is that Mayor Newsom has pointed out that the boogie monster has no clothes.
The assertion that society will tumble into disarray is obviously hollow.”
Brian Fahling, a senior trial attorney and policy analyst for the American
Family Association Center for Law & Policy said Mayor Newsom is “actively
undertaking to violate the law in a pretty profound way.”
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| Longtime activists trong>Phyllis Lyon (front, left) and trong>Del
Martin, who have
been together for 51 years, were the first gay couple to get married last
week at San Francisco’s City Hall. Among those witnessing the historic
ceremony were Kate Kendell (far left), of the National Center for Lesbian
Rights, and former Clinton administration official Roberta Achtenberg.
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“Because of the laws that exist in California, you have an effort to
call something marriage when it is in fact not,” Fahling said. “I
think we can safely conclude that they are attempting to further a pol
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