Comments on: New York: Appeals court rules state must recognize same-sex Canadian marriages

by: paleotectonics

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:44:15 +0000

Congratulations, dearies!

The fact that logic-freepers are infuriated? Just frosting on the cake. (But really good frosting…)

by: magickitty

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:39:23 +0000

Nice! I’m so glad there’s glimmers of hope.

by: Mercurial Georgia

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:27:03 +0000

“and let the new word earn its own place of honor in society”

Okay, rock, paper, scissors, loser get to be (or struck as) ‘the woman’, and the winner gets to be the one who owns her whole life for the next few centuries, while sleeping around.

by: Samantha Vimes

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 06:34:34 +0000

Ah, a little good news goes down fine right now.

by: Shannon

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:53:49 +0000

*SO* awesome.

by: Lee Richards

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:07:13 +0000

gag!

by: Genevieve

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:51:18 +0000

Yay! This is awesome! Go New York! Go ACLU!

by: Chris

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:36:45 +0000

I see there’s no link to the ruling, but it should make interesting reading.

The Full Faith and Credit Clause has been used to force each state to recognize a divorce granted legally in another state. My best guess is that the same logic would hold for marriage as soon as some state officially adopts same sex marriage. Then the game is pretty much over.

However, this ruling recognizes a marriage granted in a foreign country. Again, I’d be curious to see the reasoning on this one.

by: Ms. Kate

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:45:18 +0000

Congratulations! Now that’s two states where you can be married!

I assume this means they would have to acknowledge MA marriages too? That isn’t a small deal in terms of no part of NY being more than about 5 hours’ drive from here (and those parts are a short hop from Canada).

What’s that sound … the sound of Bed and Breakfast places in the Berkshires filling up … non-stop NY wedding bells in NoHo …

by: smartalek

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:09:54 +0000

Whoever it was who said, in Civil War days, that we should just “let our erring sisters go,” I really think they were right.
I see no reason why we should not only keep these clowns in our country, but support them with hundreds of billions of our tax dollars. Let them live the reality behind their rhetoric, and let their anti-education, anti-freedom, anti-American ethos take their states down to the banana-republic level that they’d so clearly attain without our transfer payments keeping them solvent.