Bisbee (Arizona) pulls ordinance on civil unions

[cali]

The City Council in the Southern Arizona community of Bisbee will rewrite a recently enacted civil-union ordinance after being threatened with a lawsuit by the state Attorney General's office, which said the ordinance ran afoul of a state ban on same-sex marriage.

The council voted Thursday night to pull the ordinance so it can be revised to take out items that raised the ire of social conservatives and Attorney General Tom Horne. Those include community property, inheritances, appointment of guardians and disposition of remains after death.

"To the extent that we can eliminate that if we tighten the language we're hoping that we can do that and we can move forward quickly," Mayor Adriana Badal said Friday.

A spokeswoman for Horne said the decision likely means a lawsuit expected to be filed next week won't be necessary.

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1. Bisbee is a very cool little town

Many diverse people. Artists, musicians, old hippies and a large gay community. I was over there (about 30 miles away) the day after
the City Council passed the civil union deal. Sitting in St Elmo's, an old watering hole, the locals discussed the ordinance. Locals were happy to be the first town in Az to have such a law. Tom Horne is an ass. He wouldn't last ten minutes in Bisbee.