This was from an e-mail that was sent out earlier this month by the American Family Association concerning a little more about Proposition 8. It was sent out September 12. After reading, please continue to pray that Proposition 8 will pass. It is so important to the people of this state as well as the people of this Nation. Please send your prayers out. They are so needed.
Earlier this week I shared a news item broadcast on WorldNetDaily reporting that Pacer County, CA denied a marriage license on the grounds that the couple to be married had written the words "bride" and "groom" next to the terms "Party A" and "Party B" on the marriage license application. The couples wrote in the words "bride" and "groom" because they wanted to be legally recognized as husband and wife.
Pastor Doug Bird of Abundant Life Fellowship in Roseville, CA was alarmed to learn that the State now rejects the traditional terms "bride" and "groom." Last week, Bird performed his first wedding ceremony since the California Supreme Court's May, 2008 ruling that declared homosexual couples must be allowed to marry.
Following numerous calls to the Pacer County Clerk's Office, county officials told AFA that it was the State, not the County, that rejected the wording "bride" and "groom." According to the State, no alterations are allowed on official State forms, including license applications.
According to Gary Kreep, an attorney and executive director of the California-based United States Justice Foundation, only the state legislature may authorize a change in language on marriage license applications. Unlike other states, in California the content of marriage license applications are determined by statute.
In other words, the California Dept. of Public Health had no authority to replace the words "Bride" and "Groom" with "Party A" and Party B." Therefore, the department's altering of the form was not only highly offensive, it was illegal too. Click here to see the department's self-legislated mandate to counties.
Sincerely, 
Donald E. Wildmon,
Founder and Chairman
American Family Association
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