Tuesday, June 10, 2008

L.A. Mayor Happy to Preside Over Gay Weddings


Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa claims to have taken steps that will allow him to perform same-sex weddings.

Villaraigosa is scheduled to be in Israel when county clerks' offices in California can begin issuing marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples at 5 p.m. on June 16, but he has expressed his intent to officiate at both same-sex and opposite-sex weddings once he returns.

"I've told a number of couples that I will be happy to preside," the mayor said to the Los Angeles Daily News last week. "I will marry as many people as possible."

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