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Cara, my in-laws, and gay marriage

The Curvature has another one of those posts you won't see in the national news: "a New York appellate court in Monroe County ruled that New York must recognize legal same-sex marriages from outside the state."

Here's a little more:

Even though gay couples may not legally marry in New York, the appellate court in Rochester held that a gay couple’s 2004 marriage in Canada must be respected under the state’s longstanding “marriage recognition rule,” and that an employer’s denial of health benefits had discriminated against the couple on the basis of their sexual orientation.

“The Legislature may decide to prohibit the recognition of same-sex marriages solemnized abroad,” a five-judge panel of the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court ruled unanimously in rejecting a 2006 lower court decision. “Until it does so, however, such marriages are entitled to recognition in New York.”


[My in-laws live in a small community near Rochester called Pittsford when they aren't living in Florida; think Hockessin but slightly shabbier and more exclusive. We may have Dewey Beach cougars, but their hometown has the ever useful Pittsford Bitch. I once got a strained laugh at a family function for suggesting that the town lesbian (somehow there would only be one) might be called a Pittsford Butch instead. But my in-laws are really cool, too, and I suspect they approve. Would that more people of their generation--hell, more people of any generation--could approve as well.]

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