Mass Marriage? Mass Anullment!

Yep, I have zero sympathy on this.

SALEM, Oregon (AP) -- The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday nullified nearly 3,000 marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples by Multnomah County a year ago, saying a single county couldn't take such action on its own.

The court said while the county can question the constitutionality of laws governing marriage, they are a matter of statewide concern so the county had no authority to issue licenses to gay couples.

The court noted that last November, Oregonians approved a constitutional amendment that limits marriages to a man and a woman. The court also said that long before that vote, state law had set the same limitations on marriages since Oregon became a state.

"Today, marriage in Oregon -- an institution once limited to opposite-sex couples only by statute -- now is so limited by the state Constitution as well," the court ruling said.

Now, I'm not against homosexuals living together, or even having some benefits, per se. I am against a bunch of lunatic "activists", particularly unelected activist judges, circumventing the law and public morality to try to make a statement.

Of all places, I'm astonished that the folks in Oregon, a rather liberal state, made such a strong stand against this kind of idiocy last November. It's some of the first common sense out of that state in quite a while.