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ccharles000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-03-08 06:39 PM
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Suit Seeks To Stop Recognitions Of Gay Marriages In NY
http://www.365gay.com/Newscon08/06/060308ny.htm

(New York City)A Christian legal organization says it has sued to stop New York from recognizing same-sex marriages legally performed in other states.

The Alliance Defense Fund says it filed its lawsuit Tuesday in a court in the Bronx. Several Republican state senators are named as party to the suit.

Gay marriage is unconstitutional in New York. Gov. David Paterson however told state agencies on May 14 that New York must recognize same-sex marriages performed in Massachusetts, Canada and other places where they are legal.

The Arizona-based legal group filing the lawsuit has intervened elsewhere in gay marriage and religious freedom cases including those involving abortion and what it calls traditional family values.
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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-04-08 01:06 AM
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1. Full Faith & Credit clause trumps the lawsuit. Gov. Paterson is right.
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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-04-08 02:03 AM
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2. Secondly, Plaintiffs have NO STANDING to sue.
Plaintiffs have no evidence that NY's recognizing gay marriages from other states will affect their lives or their marriages.

Case should be dismissed on that reason, besides the Full Faith & Credit Clause of the United States Constitution.




Note: I am a lawyer, but I do not play one on TV. :D



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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-04-08 01:57 PM
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