New York Begins to Alter Policy on Gay Marriage

[cal04]

Source: NYTimes

Gov. David A. Paterson has directed all state agencies to begin to revise their policies and regulations to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions, like Massachusetts, California and Canada.

In a directive issued on May 14, the governor’s legal counsel, David Nocenti, instructed the agencies that gay couples married elsewhere “should be afforded the same recognition as any other legally performed union.”

The revisions are most likely to involve as many as 1,300 statutes and regulations in New York governing everything from joint filing of income tax returns to transferring fishing licenses between spouses.

In a videotaped message given to gay community leaders at a dinner on May 17, Mr. Paterson described the move as “a strong step toward marriage equality.” And people on both sides of the issue said it moved the state closer to fully legalizing same-sex unions in this state.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/nyregion/29marriage.html?hp

[patriotvoice]

1. Comity, a beautiful smile upon the lips of the discriminated.

Article IV, Section 2:
"The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States."

Find Law has good material:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/article04/index.html

"At least four theories have been proffered regarding the purpose of this clause. First, the clause is a guaranty to the citizens of the different States of equal treatment by Congress; in other words, it is a species of equal protection clause binding on the National Government.... Fourth, the clause merely forbids any State to discriminate against citizens of other States in favor of its own. It is this narrow interpretation that has become the settled one. 'It was undoubtedly the object of the clause in question to place the citizens of each State upon the same footing with citizens of other States, so far as the advantages resulting from citizenship in those States are concerned. It relieves them from the disabilities of alienage in other States; it inhibits discriminating legislation against them by other States; it gives them the right of free ingress into other States, and egress from them; it insures to them in other States the same freedom possessed by the citizens of those States in the acquisition and enjoyment of property, and in the pursuit of happiness; and it secures to them in other States the equal protection of their laws.'"

[Book Lover]

2. The Accidental Governor

turning out to be one of our best.

[Book Lover]

3. kick

[intheflow]

4. Yea!!

:woohoo: Is this the first state that would recognize same-sex marriages w/o also allowing those marriages and civil unions?

[Divine Discontent]

5. I believe so. I've not heard anything about any other state doing that

I am very very happy at this - and every deep blue state's governor should speak up right now while the iron's hot or whatever the saying is, and put so much of this on the book that it'd be rather hard to go back to the hateful ways of the past!

THANK YOU GOV. PATERSON! THANK YOU, VERY MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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[intheflow]

6. Kicking for the morning crowd.

:kick:

[LostinVA]

8. No -- Rhode Island was

[intheflow]

9. Thanks.

Rhode Island always gets slighted in the corporate media. :)

[Strathos]

7. AWESOME!

Love that man!

k and r

[grantcart]

10. NY will recognize legal same sex marriages performed elsewhere

Source: MSNC

MSNBC just announced that Governor Patterson said New York State will begin to recognize as legally valid same sex marriages performed in other states or countries where such marriages are legal, such as Massachusettes, Canada or California.

No link yet.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

11. i am so going to california.

[Greyskye]

12. Wow.

:thumbsup: Looks like the first pebbles are starting to roll. :thumbsup:

[skygazer]

13. Story in my local paper about it

http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_9414148

Great news. :party:

[grantcart]

14. kick it up again

[Politicub]

15. Patterson is amazing and fair minded

What a great move!


:woohoo: :applause: