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This is amazing news... and I'm proud that this is an Asian American judge who's behind this ruling. I don't know what the appeals process will be like, but at least for this moment, I feel proud to be a New Yorker. More than usual, in fact.
Of course, this issue has taken over the spotlight and hogged the debate around justice and human rights for all members of the society that we live in. And it's an easy blanket to cover over the uneasiness that the hetero left sometimes feels about their "moral" convergence with the far right on issues of real equity when it comes to their queer counterparts in the movement. "Hey - they can marry now, so their issues don't have to aired anymore!"
I know that there are a lot of criticisms and look forward to reading and learning about them soon. For now, though, I'll just think to myself that this is a small step in the long journey in the right direction.
New York court rules in favor of same-sex marriage
Same-sex couples must be allowed to marry in New York State, a court ruled on Friday in a decision that Lambda Legal called "a historic ruling that delivers the state constitution's promise of equality to all New Yorkers." Lambda Legal filed the lawsuit last year, representing five same-sex couples seeking marriage licenses in New York.
In a 62-page decision issued Friday morning in New York City, state supreme court justice Doris Ling-Cohan said that the New York state constitution guarantees basic freedoms to lesbian and gay people and that those rights are violated when same-sex couples are not allowed to marry. The ruling said the state constitution requires same-sex couples to have equal access to marriage and that the couples represented by Lambda Legal must be given marriage licenses.
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