Posted by
TheChair on Wednesday, September 03, 2008 2:21:33 AM
New York neither has a law allowing nor forbidding same-sex marriage. Massachusetts allows same-sex marriage, even for out-of-staters. Many same-sex couples from New York are now taking advantage of Massachusetts' wedding ceremonies, then are returning home to assert their marital rights.
Now a New York court effectively has recognized the legitimacy of same-sex marriages done elsewhere, by dismissing a lawsuit seeking to stop the governor from recognizing them. By this predictable means--a steady Long March through the courts--same-sex marriage will continue to spread through the states. Unless we stop it here and now, in California, by enacting Proposition 8, and Massachusetts reenacts its 1913 ban against jurisdiction-jumping marriages.