{"id":2262,"date":"2004-02-20T14:50:53","date_gmt":"2004-02-21T06:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/20\/this-bandwagon-just-keeps-rollin-on\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:25:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:25:45","slug":"this-bandwagon-just-keeps-rollin-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/20\/this-bandwagon-just-keeps-rollin-on\/","title":{"rendered":"This bandwagon just keeps rollin&#8217; on&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11696,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2004\\\/LAW\\\/02\\\/12\\\/gay.marriage.california.ap&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2004\\\/LAW\\\/02\\\/12\\\/gay.marriage.california.ap&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11697,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.wane.com\\\/Global\\\/story.asp?S=1656147&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.wane.com\\\/Global\\\/story.asp?S=1656147&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11698,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.washingtonpost.com\\\/wp-dyn\\\/articles\\\/A55976-2004Feb19.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11699,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.latimes.com\\\/news\\\/local\\\/la-me-marriage21feb21,1,4969292.story?coll=la-home-headlines&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.latimes.com\\\/news\\\/local\\\/la-me-marriage21feb21,1,4969292.story?coll=la-home-headlines&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11700,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nbc4.tv\\\/news\\\/2854381\\\/detail.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.nbc4.tv\\\/news\\\/2854381\\\/detail.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11701,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.miami.com\\\/mld\\\/miamiherald\\\/news\\\/nation\\\/7963377.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20060614160153\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.miami.com:80\\\/mld\\\/miamiherald\\\/news\\\/nation\\\/7963377.htm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 18:42:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 18:42:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I am loving, loving, <em>loving<\/em> one aspect of my newsreading these days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/LAW\/02\/12\/gay.marriage.california.ap\/\" title=\"San Francisco weds gay couples\">San Francisco<\/a> started it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wane.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=1656147\" title=\"WANE-TV: County to issue same-sex marriage licences\">New Mexico<\/a> is going to start.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A55976-2004Feb19.html\" title=\"More Cities Supportive of Gay Marraige\">Chicago, Minneapolis, Salt Lake City (!!!) and Plattsburgh, NY<\/a> are also expressing support and talking about joining in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-marriage21feb21,1,4969292.story?coll=la-home-headlines\" title=\"Another Win for Wedded Gays\">Judges keep refusing to grant injunctions stopping the process<\/a> &#8212; in one <em>beautiful<\/em> instance, the request was refused on the basis of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc4.tv\/news\/2854381\/detail.html\" title=\"Thanks to a Semicolon, Gays, Lesbians Keep Marrying\">misused semicolon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are two things that really stand out to me about how wonderful this is. The first is that it&#8217;s suddenly happening so fast, and gaining so much support across the country. The second is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/mld\/miamiherald\/news\/nation\/7963377.htm\" title=\"Bush stance led mayor to back gay marriages\">how it all began<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  It was only his 12th day as mayor of San Francisco, but Gavin Newsom decided that night &#8212; the very night he attended President Bush&#8217;s State of the Union address in Washington, D.C. &#8212; that he was going to defy California law.<\/p>\n<p>  And turn the nation on its ear.<\/p>\n<p>  Attending the president&#8217;s Jan.\u00a020 speech as a guest of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Newsom listened closely as Bush voiced his strong support for outlawing same-sex marriage &#8212; with a constitutional amendment, if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>  Not long after the speech, Newsom called his chief of staff, Steve Kawa, a gay man who was at home with his partner and their two children. &#8221;He told me that he wanted to do something,&#8221; Kawa said.<\/p>\n<p>  Two weeks later, during a staff meeting, Newsom dropped the bombshell on his top aides: He wanted them to explore how the city could start issuing marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples.<\/p>\n<p>  Kawa said the mayor asked staff to gather legal briefs, news articles and other background information. Added his communications chief, Peter Ragone, &#96;&#96;He also wanted it done quietly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Within 24 hours, Kawa was on the phone with Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, a San Francisco-based public interest organization.<\/p>\n<p>  Her reaction: &#8221;Oh, my God, you&#8217;re kidding me,&#8221; Kendell said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>  It was the first time, Kendell said, that a mayor of an American city wanted to take such an initiative. And Newsom, a straight Irish Catholic man married for two years, was the perfect politician to take on the fight, she said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thank God for people like Gavin Newsom &#8212; people who decide that it&#8217;s time to do the right thing, and do it.<\/p>\n<p>And congratulations to every single one of the more than 3,000 brand-new married, loving couples.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a long time coming.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Bacchanalian Feast&#8221; by Original Love Tribe, The from the album <em>Twisted Secrets Vol. 2<\/em> (1993, 5:46).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank God for people like Gavin Newsom &mdash; people who decide that it&#8217;s time to do the right thing, and do it. And congratulations to every single one of the more than 3,000 brand-new married, loving couples. It&#8217;s been a long time coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}