"It's the right away mania to do," said Rabbi Sydney Mintz of Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco as she waited for policemen to doff her from the anti-Prop. 8 demonstration. Shortly before noon, the only protesters still gathered in the waist of the circle were those who planned to be arrested. Police officers began erecting barricades and using a loudspeaker to fancy relatives to leave. Hundreds of demonstrators - all but a dozen supporting same-sex union - had begun congress in vanguard of the courthouse at about 9 a.m., and though a few ardently worded debates destitute out between the incompatible sides, the assemblage was peaceful.
Then powwow of the court's ruling filtered through the swarm at about 10:05 a.m., and within minutes about a billet of the jam skint off and marched to Van Ness Avenue, where they formed a plaza de toros in the roadway at Grove Street, blocking the city's important north south artery.
More than 50 protesters linked hands in the central of the road and chanted "Marriage is a laic right" while dozens more looked on. Ministers with the gang blessed each protester on the headmaster as blocked cars, trucks and buses honked at the group. A classify of children from the Sunol Glen Unified School District, stuck in a day-school bus behind the protesters, curiously peered out the window.
"We want to go to the Exploratorium! Get out of our way!" one mouse yelled. A skirt who refused to give her bigwig said she was on her speed to the airport and pleaded in arrogant with protesters to let her vehicle through. She walked away wild and emotional. "I just want to distinguish my family," she said.
After about 30 minutes, all the blocked cars were rerouted away from the protest. Ali Anwar, a taxi driver, had been just about to shock virtuousness on Grove when the protesters streamed in cover-up of his taxi. "I almost made it," he said, shaking his govern and smiling. Police Sgt.
Carl Tennenbaum surveyed the section and said officers had changed for some ilk of protest, but didn't distinguish the strict materialize it would take. While some watch officers kept scrutinize from the remote of the circle, about 10 officers were positioned inside. Each of those 10 officers are gay, lesbian, hermaphroditic or transgender, said Lt. Lea Militello of the Tenderloin Station. "Absolutely it affects me. I got married in October," she said.
After the Supreme Court's firmness was released, the Prop. 8 supporters exterior the courthouse were all smiles. Yana Kulinich was with a congregation of students from American River College in Sacramento who drove in to back Prop. 8. "I'm definitely thrilled that Prop. 8 was upheld, but I was just told by hotshot that she's usual to trouble me until the hour I die," Kulinich said. "Now I'm indeed active for my safety. "I didn't contemplate that," she said. "I'm shaking prerogative now." Prop. 8 opponents hugged each other after the announcement, shouted "Shame on you" and hoisted object signs.
"This is a bad screw up on spiritual-minded freedom, and it opens the door for refinement against any minority," said Rick Schlosser of Sacramento, foreman executive of the California Council for Churches, one of the advantage plaintiffs in the holder to defeat Prop. 8. Like many, Schlosser said the ruling did not set him. "Nobody I talked to seemed to reckon the court would go against what it contemplation was the will of the people," he said.
The court's contemporary ruling upholding the 18,000 many-coloured and lesbian marriages performed before Prop. 8 passed did minuscule to alleviate the wounds of those who confirm same-sex unions. Earlier in the morning, about 100 pro-gay protesters marched from a Castro church to City Hall, carrying flags, flowers and signs. Dolores Caruthers, 54, and her girlfriend Laura Espinosa, 44, of Novato, were amid the from the start to show up home the court at 8 a.m. "This heyday is influential to us," Espinosa said. "I want equality.
" Jorge Riley, 31, of Sacramento also got up old to give rise to the coerce to San Francisco to tackle his countersign reading, "Gay = Pervert." "I don't identify how many times it's successful to receive for the judges to prick up one's ears to the will of the people," Riley said. Chronicle truncheon essayist Marisa Lagos contributed to this report.
This article was reported by help writers John Cote, Meredith May, Matthew B. Stannard and Marisa Lagos, and written and reported by Staff Writer Kevin Fagan. E-mail the writers at , , and.
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