Gay Couples Marry In New York Village
NEW PALTZ, N.Y. -- Twenty-one gay couples exchanged wedding vows outside village hall Friday in a spirited ceremony that opened another front on the growing national debate over gay marriage.
Even as the ceremonies were ending, the state Health Department asked Attorney General Eliot Spitzer to seek an injunction "to prevent further illegal conduct by the mayor," said spokesman William Van Slyke. The department also wants the attorney general's office to find Friday's same-sex marriages in New Paltz "null and void," Van Slyke said.
A call to Spitzer's office was not immediately returned.
Jason West, the 26-year-old Green Party mayor in this village 75 miles north of New York City, joined San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom as the country's only mayors to marry same-sex couples. In the past two weeks, about 3,400 gay couples have married in San Francisco.
Hooray for Mayor Jason. Boo for Mayor Bloomberg!!
Posted by ronn at February 27, 2004 06:35 PM
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