http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/29/nygay.marriage/index.html
New York to recognize gay marriages
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Gov. David Patterson of New York has told state
agencies to recognize same-*** marriages performed in states and
countries where they are legal, his spokeswoman said Wednesday.
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New York agencies have been told to recognize same-*** marriages
performed in places where they are legal.
The governor's legal counsel told state agencies in a May 14 memo to
revise policies and regulations to recognize same-*** marriages performed
in California and Massachusetts as well as Canada and other countries
that allow gays and lesbians to marry, said Erin Duggan, the governor's
spokeswoman.
The memo informed state agencies that failing to recognize gay marriages
would violate the New York's human rights law, Duggan said.
The directive follows a February ruling from a New York state appeals
court. That decision says that legal same-*** marriages performed in
other jurisdictions are entitled to recognition in New York.
"This was in direct response to a court ruling," Duggan told CNN. "Just
to make sure all the state agencies are on the same page."
Duggan says that the court's decision was consistent with the findings of
several lower courts in New York State.
The governor's legal counsel sent the memo one day before the California
Supreme Court struck down a ban on gay marriage in that state. Court
officials in California counties may begin issuing marriage licenses to
same-*** couples on June 17, state officials said Wednesday.
Massachusetts legalized same-*** marriages in 2004, and gay couples need
not be state residents there to wed. However, then-Gov. Mitt Romney
resurrected a 1913 law barring non-resident marriages in the state if the
marriage would be prohibited in the partners' home state.
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Subsequent court and agency decisions have determined that only residents
of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Mexico may marry in Massachusetts,
unless the parties say they plan to relocate there after the marriage.
New Hamp****re, Vermont, New Jersey and Connecticut permit civil unions,
while California has a domestic-partner registration law. More than a
dozen other states give same-*** couples some legal rights, as do some
other countries
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rotfl...
The reichtard morons will be having hysterics...
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