Protesters scarce as California gays marry across the state
by Patrick May
Mercury News
While same-sex marital bliss blossomed on the 10th floor of the Santa Clara county building on West Hedding Street Tuesday morning, Ciaran O'Donnell stood out front, holding a hand-made watercolored protest poster, a lonely sentry trying to keep this gay new world at bay.
At times drowned out by the din of same-sex wedding-bell revelry, especially in the ultra-liberal San Francisco Bay Area, opponents of gay marriage braced for Tuesday's landmark ceremonies with a mixture of scattered public demonstrations, Bible-verse invocation, and discussions about the definition of family.
"The standard is one man, one woman, one lifetime - that's it," agreed Shirley Phelps-Roper with the Topeka-based Westboro Baptist Church that dispatched a handful of protesters to California this week. Gay marriage "is another in-your-face, smashed-mouth flipping-off affront to God for which you'll pay dearly."
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Mercury News
While same-sex marital bliss blossomed on the 10th floor of the Santa Clara county building on West Hedding Street Tuesday morning, Ciaran O'Donnell stood out front, holding a hand-made watercolored protest poster, a lonely sentry trying to keep this gay new world at bay.
At times drowned out by the din of same-sex wedding-bell revelry, especially in the ultra-liberal San Francisco Bay Area, opponents of gay marriage braced for Tuesday's landmark ceremonies with a mixture of scattered public demonstrations, Bible-verse invocation, and discussions about the definition of family.
"The standard is one man, one woman, one lifetime - that's it," agreed Shirley Phelps-Roper with the Topeka-based Westboro Baptist Church that dispatched a handful of protesters to California this week. Gay marriage "is another in-your-face, smashed-mouth flipping-off affront to God for which you'll pay dearly."
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