Straight couples dressed in tuxedoes and pastel-colored gowns were forced to wait in a hallway outside the San Francisco recorder's office on Tuesday as 10 Bay Area Christian leaders sat in a circle inside singing ''We Shall Overcome,'' ''Chapel of Love,'' and ''We Shall Not Be Moved.'' It has become an annual Valentine's Day protest of the city's inability to give marriage licenses to same-sex couples, an authority that is on hold until appeals of a court's decision to strike down California's gay marriage ban are exhausted.

''We're just going to keep knocking at the door until justice is available to all people,'' the Rev. Karen Oliveto, a Methodist pastor of San Francisco's Glide Memorial Church, said after sheriff's deputies handcuffed her and her fellow protesters and led them to jail.

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