Lesbian couple of 55 years finally say 'I do'

I was there the first time they got married - they were the first couple to tie the knot when Mayor Newsom first made the change to the marriage licenses.

It's nice that this time around, they hopefully won't have to do it again!

I think it's amazing that they had to wait this long for a right most of us take for granted and treat callously...very sweet story

This is why we should just allow gay marriages, there are people out there who deserve it and want it a lot more than some heterosexuals.

Wow that story brought tears to my eyes, their strength and love is an inspiration to anyone regardless of sexual orientation.

Good for them!

Yeah! These 2 are the embodiment of courage.

Great news for gays and progressives everywhere.
Congratulations and lots of luck!!!!

simply wonderful =]
i hope they have a wonderful marriage...

Congratulations to them. Gah. That story made my day.

It is about time! Congratulations to the both of them and to all the others who will be tying the knot!
It has been too long and I cannot wait for the day when the idea of gay marriage makes us think how crazy it was that we denied them for so long!

I live in California, it is 6:20p.m., an hour and a half since gay marriage became legal, and the sky has not fallen in!

Gay marriage is legalized and it looks like california has survived...imagine that!

The commitment of love sworn and sactioned in God's eyes without the human intervention of "cross" judgement.
Oh yeah.

If they've been together for 55 years then the odds are probably pretty good that they'll be married for the rest of their lives.

I wonder if they'll do any tracking of the couples that get married and see if their divorce rates are any different.

That would be some interesting data to show which was btter for the institution I would think

That's so sweet! How wonderful. What a historic day! :) It's inspiring to see these women take action against oppression, and this is just the beginning. :)

Congratulations to them!! This is just so beautiful. Finally, finally, finally..

Yes, this should have been able to happen a long ago. In some ways we are so smart yet so dumb and sloooooow..........

This is a nice story. When I heard it yesterday it made me wonder why the various anti-gay marriage blowhards who bleat on about the sanctity of marriage don't protest more widespread hetero shams like Vegas chapels and other stunts like that. I suppose if it were really about the 'sanctity of marriage', they would.

Times are getting close . this is so sad . Marriage should be a man and a Woman only period . Read the king James Bible it is wrong .people have no Morals these days . this just proves it even more . Sad Sad times when gays can get Married. God have Mercy. God Bless America and Beyond

american man, you are metrotard,
how do you know god is not a lesbian,
this two ladies have love for other.
and that's what counts.
i believe that's in your so called book.
it says love one another.

but anyways i'm a lesbian too.
go California

it's the end of the world as we know it, and i feel fine..........

I'm so happy for these women. All us Californians have to do now is to vote down that amendment in November.

For all the haters and protesters: why the fuck do you care so much? No one's stopping you from getting married. Are you that threatened? Do you worry that your children will be affected? If you do your job as parents than you needn't worry about your children. Live and let live. It's confusing to me why people feel the need to fuck up other people's lives...their happiness. How selfish, egotistical, and bigoted of you! :)

I could really go on with the specifics and the exceptions and everything in between, but I'll leave it at that.

Well hooray for them, they've lived a life full of abomination and sin for 55 years (sarcasm). You know we're in a sick society when it applauds something like this. Sodom and Gomorrah come to mind, and we know what happened to them when they allowed all sorts of immoralities to become acceptable in their societies.

I love it. yay california

Hate rots you inside. It will make you nasty and bitter. Get over it. This is wonderful news that we have finally decided to allow a large segment of our population equal human rights. God Bless America.

How did that line go... wasn't it "Let he who hast no sin cast the first stone" ???

Isn't the Christian way to handle this something like "Judge not, lest ye be judged" ???

Or are Christian extremists losing sight of the true meaning on "love thy neighbor" ???

HOORAY FOR EQUALITY!!!

Love, Love love, love, love... No I don't see any rules when it comes to love in the dictionary, nor in the bible..hmm.. strange. You think God would regulate if She really cared!!!Oh wait I thought she was a god of infinite love and understand, you close-minded white Jesus freaks. I bet you also don't believe She doesn't defecate, but I say your proof.

God is a HE, not a she, no where in the Hebrew nor the Greek, does it EVER refer to God in a feminine sense. The act of Homosexuality is a sin according to the Bible aka GOD'S word.

Care to find and Quote that passage Kevdawg?

I do love my neighbor, that's why when I see them doing something destructive to their lives that will have eternal ramifications, I let them know it's wrong and harmful to them. If a person were about jump off of a cliff I'd try to prevent them from making that mistake too. Lost people always throw that old standby of "judge not lest ye be judged" into the mix, and you use it completely for your own agendas. In that same chapter I believe it explains that some one's actions condemns them, that's the point Jesus was making, there's no need to judge them; they judge themselves by the sins they commit. Frankly, none of us are in the position to judge anyone else, but as it also says in that same chapter you're talking about in Matthew; "we will know them by the fruits they bear." So, homosexuals live in a lifestyle that is solely identified and based on one particular sin. They are taking after their father who is the devil; if Satan was an orange, they'd be oranges too. One day Satan will be cast into the lake of fire for his evilness, and since they belong to him they will be cast into the lake of fire with him unless they change their ways and believe in Jesus Christ as their personal savior.

to Marilynn_Murray - here's some quoting from the bible that you wanted from kevdawg -

don't get mad at me, below is just what the bible says. the rest is between you and God

Q. What explicitly does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

This question I consider to be basic because, if we accept God's Word on the subject of homosexuality, we benefit from His adequate answer to this problem. I am concerned only with the Christian or biblical view of homosexuality. The Bible has much to say about sex sins in general.

First, there is adultery. Adultery in the natural sense is sexual intercourse of a married person with someone other than his or her own spouse. It is condemned in both the Old and New Testaments (Exodus 20:14; I Cor. 6:9, 10). Christ forbids dwelling upon the thoughts, the free play of one's imagination that leads to adultery (Matthew 5:28).

Second, there is fornication, the illicit sex acts of unmarried persons which is likewise forbidden (I Corinthians 5:1; 6:13, 18; Ephesians 5:3).

Then there is homosexuality which likewise is condemned in Scripture. The Apostle Paul, writing by inspiration of the Holy Spirit, declares that homosexuality "shall not inherit the kingdom of God" (I Corinthians 6:9; 10). Now Paul does not single out the homosexual as a special offender. He includes fornicators, idolators, adulterers, thieves, covetous persons, drunkards, revilers and extortioners. And then he adds the comment that some of the Christians at Corinth had been delivered from these very practices: "And such were some of you: But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the spirit of our God" (I Corinthians 6:11). All of the sins mentioned in this passage are condemned by God, but just as there was hope in Christ for the Corinthians, so is there hope for all of us.

Homosexuality is an illicit lust forbidden by God. He said to His people Israel, "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination" (Leviticus 18:22). "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them" (Leviticus 20:13). In these passages homosexuality is condemned as a prime example of sin, a sexual perversion. The Christian can neither alter God's viewpoint nor depart from it.

In the Bible sodomy is a synonym for homosexuality. God spoke plainly on the matter when He said, "There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel" (Deuteronomy 23:17). The whore and the sodomite are in the same category. A sodomite was not an inhabitant of Sodom nor a descendant of an inhabitant of Sodom, but a man who had given himself to homosexuality, the perverted and unnatural vice for which Sodom was known. Let us look at the passages in question:

But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house around, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? Bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof. (Genesis 19:4-8)

The Hebrew word for "know" in verse 5 is yada`, a sexual term. It is used frequently to denote sexual intercourse (Genesis 4:1, 17, 25; Matthew 1:24, 25). The message in the context of Genesis 19 is clear. Lot pled with the men to "do not so wickedly." Homosexuality is wickedness and must be recognized as such else there is no hope for the homosexual who is asking for help to be extricated from his perverted way of life.

shadowtrekker, I'm not mad at you I just wish you had let him do it. That was my point.

Im sorry theres nothing sweet about this theres NO Excuse in the eyes of God hes the judge not me....read
Roman 1:24-32 and Genesis 2:18-25
This Country have broken all of God Ten Commandments Gen:20 1-17 we turn away from the one true God who made the heaven and earth. How could you forget when God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah Genesis 18:20 Gen:19 chapter I don't hate anyone who choose to live that way my prayers goes out to them all.
God Bless...

Hey guys, have we forgotten that the US is not a theocracy?

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The truth about same-sex marriage is it degrades our family foundation, where children are acknowledged to do best in families with a mother and father in a loving and stable environment. Same-sex marriage PRECLUDES a mother and father! Why is that a good thing to do to children? Why do you need to preclude this foundation for children, just out of empathy for about 2 maybe 3 percent of the population?

How can all the media, news, tv shows and commercials, magazine racks, music, plus what is exposed to children in schools, all at the tender ages of 4-6-8-10 be "normal" for their minds to deal with? And top that off with confusing them with same-sex thoughts and issues, now related to marriage? Do you understand how confusing and WRONG it is to expose children to sexual issues? Why is it "right" to have them decide these issues as equal to a mother/father?

We talk about raising children and protecting their innocence. I don't see that as very important anymore to the proponents of same-sex marriage. How is it a better thing for little girls to question and think about if they will grow up to the lifestyle? Even many people who have left the lifestyle have admitted to the harm that was done to them as children and why they believe it is wrong to do this to our own children.

How many proponents of same-sex marriage have their own young children? I wonder? So you do not know what it is like to raise our own in this climate. It is not something you can relate to, not really, to say to other children something you would NEVER raise your own children to say to them, not at the ages of innocence, when their minds are still forming.

Either children deserve a mother and father, as a *standard* for society, or a mother and father are no longer relevant. We cannot stand for both principles as a society. Our greater principles for children can not be subordinated by compassion and dealing with homosexuals who only comprise a tiny fraction of our population.

Finally, most people do not want marriage redefined. It is only in this decade, even in Europe, in the history of thousands of years, that this is being done. And it is being done against the will of the people, by the courts. How is that right? Either democracy is defined by the will of the people or defined by courts ruling against our will. We cannot have both. We treat everyone with compassion and dignity. But redefining marriage is not what we want. And our children are being harmed by confusion. It is not fair.

Children deserve a mother and father. Why are you taking that away?? Why are children no longer the greatest good? Why must the courts decide what marriage must be, for the first time in history, against our will?