Posted on 12/20/2004 12:29:15 AM PST by Former Military Chick
NEW PALTZ, N.Y. (AP) — The Social Security Administration is rejecting marriage documents issued for all couples in communities that performed homosexual "weddings" earlier this year.
The agency is rejecting all marriage certificates issued in New Paltz, N.Y.; Asbury Park, N.J.; Multnomah County, Ore.; and Sandoval County, N.M., during the brief periods when those localities illegally granted marriage licenses to homosexual couples.
Susie Kilpatrick, 30, of New Paltz, said the local Social Security office told her that no marriage documents from the town could be used to establish identity if they were issued after Feb. 27, when New Paltz's mayor began "marrying" homosexual couples. About 125 male-female couples have been married since then in the town.
Mrs. Kilpatrick said her marriage certificate was rejected when she went to get a new card earlier this month so she could take her husband's name.
"What concerns me is that the certificate is the only way to prove that we're married," she told the New York Times for yesterday's editions. "If something happens to us, or some other couple from New Paltz, we can't prove we're married. We would not be able to draw benefits."
The Social Security Administration did not respond to requests for comment from the New York paper. A call from the Associated Press for comment yesterday was not immediately returned.
The agency posts rules on its Web site spelling out which documents can be used to obtain Social Security cards.
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The Web site said the legality of marriage documents in the other localities is "still unresolved at the state level."
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Why is San Francisco conspicuously absent from the above list?
So we may get a tax break even if we marry a tree ?
Knot something I wood do.....
Sounds like SS Admin is doing the right thing. If something is not valid legally, it must be rejected by the federal government.
The problem is that legally married COUPLES(man and woman) are being unrecognized the same as the homo couples. Basically this is an example of the new homo marriages destroying the traditional family by diluting the importance of traditional family relations. It is taking the SS Adminstration in their rulings, strange as they may seem, to point this out.
Sounds good 2 me 2.
Vote out the Idiots who messed up their lives..
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