Lithuania's parliament starts impeachment proceedings against President Rolandas Paksas, who is charged with violating the constitution by leaking state secrets, rewarding a financial supporter with citizenship and illegally influencing companies. (Bloomberg)
San Francisco judge denies request to immediately stop same-sex weddings. (Reuters)Archived 2005-04-08 at the Wayback Machine Homosexual couples win reprieve when the judge declines to stop San Francisco from granting them marriage licenses. (ABC US)
King Norodom Sihanouk, the constitutional monarch of Cambodia, states that he believes his country ought to allow same-sex marriage. He says he decided this upon seeing footage of same-sex couples marrying in San Francisco. He also says that transvestites ought to be well-treated in Cambodia. (Advocate)