KRL, do you lie to prove all of your points or just the ones where you hold the minority view?
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Originally posted by KRL
The Bush Administration has ordered the Social Security Administration not to accept or allow any marital name changes even from straight couples if you got married in San Francisco because of the gay marriage issue until this issue is resolved in the courts.
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the statement above appears to have no basis of truth when compared to the news article below:
SAN FRANCISCO - Mayor Gavin Newsom accused President Bush of political showmanship and discrimination because of the Social Security Administration's decision to not accept any marriage licenses from San Francisco ? gay or straight ? until the same-sex issue is resolved.
Newsom addressed a huge crowd at his first town hall meeting Saturday, 52 days after taking office and a little more than two weeks after he authorized city officials to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Such meetings typically draw a few dozen people, but nearly 1,000 gathered for Saturday's town hall in the Castro district, a predominantly gay and lesbian section of the city. Some in the crowd carried signs reading: "Thank You Mayor" and "Gavin ? Our Hero."
The Social Security Administration announced Friday it has told its offices nationwide not to accept marriage certificates from San Francisco as proof of identification for newlyweds looking to make name changes on Social Security cards.
Newsom called the move "political and retaliatory."
"The president is not only now discriminating against gay couples, he's discriminating against straight people," he said.
Newsom also said his administration looks forward to arguing the constitutionality of same-sex marriages before the California Supreme Court.
The high court on Friday declined a request by Attorney General Bill Lockyer to immediately shut down San Francisco's gay weddings. More than 3,400 such ceremonies have been performed since the city began issuing the licenses Feb. 12.
The justices told the city and a conservative group that opposes gay marriage to file new legal briefs by March 5 in response to the attorney general's petition. Earlier, lower-court judges also declined to immediately end the same-sex marriages.
"Not only did two lower court judges ... determine there is no irreparable harm being done, now the Supreme Court said the same thing," Newsom said.