Posted on 05/28/2008 7:27:59 PM PDT by camerakid400
ALBANY — 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.”
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And the people that he governs don’t have a say? ;-)
And this is exactly the problem with making this a state’s right issue. What a ugly scar on our constitution that this will become.
Does this go for child brides in Saudi Arabian couples?
What, government by fiat at the state house? It's a lot easier for the citizens of NY to rally there than it is in DC.
Bring it on, you spinelless hack.
Another course of action in another state which will snowball and eventually destroy this nation.
Blind, deaf and dumb.
Sure, they can say what they want. He just doesn’t care.
I am not sure I understand what your post means.
When will same sex marriage become mandatory?
“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.”
All all state agencies? Things must be rosy in New York when the governor can’t think of anything better for state agencies to do than jump up and start revising every form and reword every law and policy to remove references offensive to the concept of gay marriage. Just think. Crime in New York is now a distant momory! Every building on Wall Street is now terror proof! As a last act prior to his departure Gov Spitzer must have relocated every ho in from State NY to Washington DC.
Another case of the blind leading the blind...
Darn. I thought I would be the first to say that.
Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool.Paul Begala
Perhaps he knows that he won’t be in office a long time, that perhaps his own scandals will take him down (he started confessing the day he went in).
He pardoned Slick Rick this week. A man who shot two people.
These folks all need to get a clue. Marriage is about commitment and ensuring the continuation of the species in a union that is the best possible environment to raise the next generation. They way things are going? Where will the leaders come from? America will be history, just as every other society that has succumbed to this anti-culture.
And the judges in our courts. Re: the latest pro homosexual, gay marriage decree by the courts in California.
There simply is no way to confine a plague like this to one state. This is why the “states’ rights” argument simply can’t be maintained. We’ll either have a constitutional amendment limiting marriage to one man and one woman, or we’ll have a series of tyrannical judicial and bureaucratic rulings forcing same-sex “marriage” on every state.
I’ve never figured out why people ever believed we could maintain states’ rights on an issue like this. It’s like using a screen door to keep out the black plague.
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