Wyoming: Gay couple watches debate

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Leah Vader and her partner of Gillette will be watching today to see how the Wyoming Senate votes on a bill to ban recognition of same-sex marriages that take place in other states.

Senate File 13 is scheduled for a third reading and a final vote in the Senate today. If it passes, all it will need is the governor's signature to become law.
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John Birbari of Lander, a representative of the Casper-based Wyoming Family Values Coalition, said Tuesday his group of 9,000 families of various religious denominations -- Catholic, Protestant and Mormon -- support the bill.

"Our position is marriage is not an invention of mankind," Birbari said. "It was ordained by God and was ordained between a man and a woman, and that has been the view held through most of the ages, and that's the way we think it ought to stay."

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Ordained by god?  So what took the church so long in actually being a part of the ceremony when it came to the average couple?  And handfasting was around long before the 14th century concept of marriage so I guess their god got beat out by a half dozen other gods first.

[LynnER]

Id really love to see where god ordaned all this stuff.... I mean really... Its not actualy in the bible so where is it?

[kaelin]

The government has no right to say what God has ordained.  It's in the First Amendment somewhere.