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Rosie weds longtime girlfriend, slams Bush

SAN FRANCISCO -- Rosie O'Donnell married her longtime girlfriend Thursday, taking what she called a proud stand for gay civil rights in the city where more than 3,300 other same-sex couples have tied the knot since Feb. 12.

''I want to thank the city of San Francisco for this amazing stance the mayor has taken for all the people here, not just us but all the thousands and thousands of loving, law-abiding couples,'' said the former talk show host, holding a large bouquet after she and Kelli Carpenter emerged from their brief ceremony in Mayor Gavin Newsom's office.

The couple were married by Treasurer Susan Leal, one of the city's high-profile lesbian elected officials.

The newlyweds walked hand in hand down the grand marble staircase in the rotunda to thunderous applause from hundreds of spectators who came to witness the city's first celebrity same-sex wedding.

As the San Francisco's Gay Men's Chorus serenaded the couple with a few bars of ''Chapel of Love,'' O'Donnell smiled and said: ''We really did. We got married.''

O'Donnell told the crowd that she and Carpenter, who have been together six years and are raising four children, decided to dash to San Francisco after hearing President Bush endorse a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage Tuesday.

''We were both inspired to come here after the sitting president made the vile and hateful comments he made,'' O'Donnell said.

The couple left New York at 5 a.m. in order to make their 1 p.m. appointment in San Francisco to pick up their marriage license.

''One thought ran through my mind on the plane out here -- with liberty and justice for all,'' O'Donnell said, drawing even more cheers as she held up her hand in a peace sign. She and Carpenter then kissed for the cameras.

O'Donnell joked that with four children under the age of 8, they hadn't planned a honeymoon.

City Hall has been transformed into a virtual wedding chapel since the city began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Earlier, on ABC's ''Good Morning America,'' O'Donnell said she decided to marry Carpenter, a former dancer and marketing director at Nickelodeon, during her recent trial in New York over the now-defunct Rosie magazine. During the case, she referred to Carpenter as her wife.

California Attorney General Bill Lockyer will ask the state Supreme Court today whether San Francisco's issuing of same-sex marriage licenses violates state law, which designates marriage as only between heterosexual couples.