First off, it is with heavy hearts and a troubleds soul that we would like to take the time to offer my deepest sympathies for all the couples in San Francisco that have recently had their marriage licences voided. This is, by far, the largest and cruelest blow against the struggle for equality that we have seen. The fact that a government would so gleefully take away the happiness of so many couples is beyond imagination(Read article)They cannot take away, however, are those 6 months of wedlock that over 4,000 couples were allowed to partake in. To those 4,000 couples, and everyone else who is not allowed to marry due to the prejudiced mature of the country, we at the DarkestLight.Com say to you, remember those 6 months. Use those 6 months as a target of what is attainable. It is not impossible to know equality or happiness. Freedom and equality will prevail, as long as we do not give up.

Let's see, where should we start this off? Same-sex marriages date back thousands of centuries, back when love was love and it didn't matter the gender of the person. Now, however, with the surfacing of Christianity and many other religions, sexual discrimination has appeared throughout the world, bringing with it a wave of sorrow and pain. Instead of diving back into the past for thousands of years, we're going to focus on this year, 2004.

2004 was a tremendoisly emotional year, and it's not even over yet. In the past 8 months, same-sex marriage rights have been on a rollercoaster. It went up, it went down, it went side to side. An emotional rollercoaster for many families and couples began in a big city with a mayor who had high hopes on one windy day in February.

On Thursday, February 12, 2004, Mayor Gavin Newsom ordered San Francisco's county clerk to allow same-sex couples to apply for marriage licenses. This move challenged the state's law banning the recognition of same-sex marriages, deciding instead to follow the laws set forth in the Constitution of the United States. With this new development, gay and lesbian couples flocked to the clerk's office to attain their licenses and marry. In a matter of only a month, over 4,000 couples attained marriage licenses and were finally recognized in the eyes of the state.

Across the country at the same time, the Massachusetts legislature was in session attempting to overturn a decision set forth by the Supreme Court in November. The Supreme Court had ruled that banning same-sex marriages was against the constitution and the rights of the people of the United States.