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February 21, 2004

DER GROPE AND DUH LAW

Der ("No Two Ways About It") Gropenfuhrer renegged on a promised investigation into allegations of his sexual, potentially criminal behavior toward more than a dozen women, but he won't stand for anyone mocking the law when it comes to gay marriage. "It's time for the city to stop traveling down this dangerous path of ignoring the rule of law," he told a convention of Republicans on Friday. "That's my message to San Francisco."

California columnist Jim Washburn disagrees: "An 86-year-old sleazeball can marry an 18-year-old dominatrix, and that is sanctified. Larry King can marry for the seventh time, and it's sanctified. Britney Spears can get married and annulled quicker than you can say 'publicity whore,' and it is sanctified. Yet a gay couple that has stuck it out through better and worse for 40 years, being exemplary neighbors and citizens the whole while, poses a threat to marriage? It is legal for them to marry, of course, just not to each other. They could go out this afternoon and marry a total stranger, so long as it's someone of the opposite sex. That's the law. What's left to mock?"

Posted by at February 21, 2004 12:57 PM

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