It Really IS Ending Marriage As We Know It

Here's an interesting twist to the gay marriage fiasco:

Oregon county bans all marriage
(Reuters) -- In a new twist in the battle over same-sex marriage
roiling the United States, a county in Oregon has banned all marriages
-- gay and heterosexual -- until the state decides who can and who
cannot wed.
The last marriage licenses were handed out in Benton County at 4 p.m.
local time (7:00 p.m. EST) Tuesday. As of Wednesday, officials in the
county of 79,000 people will begin telling couples applying for
licenses to go elsewhere until the gay marriage debate is settled.
"It may seem odd," Benton County Commissioner Linda Modrell told
Reuters in a telephone interview, but "we need to treat everyone in our
county equally."

Can we please get over this? There are two wars America is currently fighting, Al Qaeda has nuclear weapons, and Medicare is going to be broke in 15 years. I'm a little surprised that of all the crap that's going on right now gay marriage is what's tearing the very fabric of our society apart.

Just remember, the sillier this all gets, the more the sanctity of marriage is being protected.

Posted by flow Frazao on March 24, 2004 at 07:39 AM | Permalink