Lesbians Seeking Marriage Find Trespassing Charges
 

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America sure can be screwy sometimes.! Here we have a country that's supposed to be all about equal rights and the such, and then we have something like this:

A lesbian couple who staged a sit-in at the Denver Clerk and Recorder's Office after being denied a marriage license was found guilty today of trespassing.

Within minutes of the verdict by an all-woman Denver County Court jury, Judge James Breese sentenced Kate Burns and Sheila Schroeder to 28 hours of community service each and ordered each to pay $41 in court costs.

Breese said he was imposing no jail time because the women conducted themselves in a "rational and calm" manner when they sought the marriage license last fall and during the sit-in after it was refused.

Well, at least there's some rationality in all this irrational, illiberal garbage.

 
Comments (4)

No. 1 · Z.

Poor dykes! I feel sorry for them. They deserved to get married.
http://www.ilovezeren.com

Posted: May 8, 2008 at 10:05 am
No. 2 · DanGOP

Regardless of whether they deserve the right to marry (which, of course, they do), once they were asked to leave during the sit in, and did not, it became a crime. Therefore, the policy of denying marriage licenses is illiberal. The right to protest on the property of another is not. They neither had permission nor right to be there for a protest, and were, rightfully, arrested, charged, tried, and convicted.

Posted: May 8, 2008 at 10:56 am
No. 3 · Paul Raposo

And that's why these women have big brass eggs, while you, DanGOP appear to be a coward.

Posted: May 8, 2008 at 12:01 pm
No. 4 · todd

Why didn't they just mail $40 to the magistrate and give a donation to their oppressor?

Posted: May 8, 2008 at 3:10 pm
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