“We hold that the New York Constitution does not compel recognition of marriages between members of the same sex. Whether such marriages should be recognized is a question to be addressed by the Legislature.”
I feel ill. More than I expected to.
The Tin Man
I’m not a lawyer like you, but it seems the opposite of what the court in Mass. thought. Over there, it seemed to me, they decided that since gays could adopt, etc., the lack of marriage rights was arbitrary discrimination — which is the kind of thing courts are better at seeing than lawmakers.
I don’t know enough to understand why the New York judges didn’t see the samething.
I could murder Pataki with my bare hands.
Very disappointing. I’m so sick of being a second class citizen in a country where I was born, pay taxes in, etc.
At least we won’t be riling up the conservatives in November?
How bitterly disappointing.