 Gay couples may be able to get married in NY soon! | |
Gay couples may soon be able to wed in the state of New York if a ruling handed down by a Manhattan judge on Friday is upheld. In a decision supporting five same-sex couples who had previously been denied marriage licenses, State Supreme
Court Justice Doris Ling-Cohan said that the New York city clerk could not deny a marriage license to a couple just because they are of the same sex, according to The Associated Press. The judge said that a part of the law forbidding same-sex marriage violates the state constitution.
Ling-Cohan ruled that the words "husband," "wife," "groom" and "bride," which appear in sections of the Domestic Relations Law, should from now on be taken to mean "spouse" and will also be understood to reference both men and women.
The ruling comes on the heels of President Bush's State of the Union address on Wednesday, in which he vowed to continue pushing for a constitutional amendment defining marriage as being the union of one man and one woman.
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