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Friday, February 8, 2008
NY State Must Recognise Canadian Gay Marriage, says court
According to the Ohio Gay People's Chronicle, an appeals court in the state of New York has ruled that NY state must recognise a gay marriage in Canada, just as it recognises marriage for other people. The state could theoretically legislate to not recognise LGBT marriages from other countries, but it must recognise them unless and until it does so.
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This is a good step indeed! Doing otherwise would be legally very sketchy. But, then again, if they have to accept marriages conducted by a foreign country, then why don't they have to give "full faith and credit" to marriages conducted in other states? I guess the state law that they (and many other states) have says they don't have to, but why does a state law get to trump the Constitution?
People are dumb. The State's interest in marriage is to do things like make sure the couple isn't related, and that they have all their paperwork in place, not to decide who does and doesn't get a license! Just let people get married already!
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