<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Tell me again why this is wrong.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of Northwest Cable News at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.nwcn.com/home/First-same-sex-weddings--182738991.html#">http://www.nwcn.com/home/First-same-sex-weddings--182738991.html#</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><h1 class="entry-title" style="margin: 0px; padding: 12px 0px 8px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; font-weight: normal; "><font size="3"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It's wedding day for same-sex couples across the state</span></font></h1></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Washington state's historic same sex marriage law took effect at midnight and moments after that, the first couple took their vows.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">About 140 same-sex couples are getting married at Seattle's City Hall on Sunday - the first day weddings can take place.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Public school elementary teachers Sarah and Emily Cofer were the first to get married at midnight at the King County Courthouse in Seattle. The couple has been together for 10 years. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">About 140 same-sex couples are getting married at Seattle's City Hall on Sunday - the first day weddings can take place.</span></div><div><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Public school elementary teachers Sarah and Emily Cofer were the first to get married at midnight at the King County Courthouse in Seattle. The couple has been together for 10 years.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Judge Mary Yu conducted the ceremony while several cameras clicked in the background.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">City officials opened City Hall on Sunday at 10 a.m. and 16 local judges volunteered to conduct the weddings. There were five separate chapels to accommodate the couples.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Eleven other couples got married overnight. Each waited to take their vows at 30-minute intervals with Judge Yu.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Washington voters approved Referendum 74 in November with 54 percent of the vote. The measure asked voters to either approve or reject the state law legalizing same-sex marriage that legislators passed earlier this year.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">The law took effect on Thursday, but state law says couples have wait three days to marry after picking their marriage licenses.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mayor Mike McGinn said opening city hall on Sunday underlines that the city stands behind the partnership of same-sex couples.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">---------------</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Public school elementary teachers Sarah and Emily Cofer were the first to get married at midnight at the King County Courthouse in Seattle.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><img src="cid:14DA9BB5-47B3-4BBE-8B26-3F500FC158D3" alt="image.jpeg" id="14DA9BB5-47B3-4BBE-8B26-3F500FC158D3" width="600" height="338"></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">------------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares"</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen, CPL (Commie Pinko Liberal)</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div> </div></div></div></body></html>