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• Title: Report on Marriage Rights for Same-Sex Couples in New York: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York Committeee on Lesbian and Gay Rights, Committee on Sex and Law and Committee on Civil Rights *.
• Author : Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
• Release Date : January 01, 2004
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 375 KB

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Editor's Note: The following Report was issued jointly by several committees of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York in May 2001. In it, the Association supports marriage rights for same-sex couples in New York, and maintains that these rights exist now and should be recognized promptly under state law. While focused on New York, the Report's thorough analysis of federal and state constitutional, statutory, and comity issues is relevant to other jurisdictions. Since the Report, the relevant laws in New York, the United States, and the world have been changing quickly and dramatically. Nonetheless, the Association's arguments here, in its most recent analysis of the status of same-sex marriage in the state, remain compelling. To update readers, we have included in this issue a detailed discussion of recent developments by the Project Coordinator of the Report. ** There is currently a national debate over the right of lesbian and gay couples to enter into state-sanctioned marriage. Much of this debate stems from Vermont's recent legislation permitting same-sex civil unions. Lawsuits in Hawaii and Alaska attacking the constitutionality of prohibitions on same-sex marriage have also fueled the debate. In addition, many states are currently considering, and some have adopted, legislation attempting to prevent recognition of same-sex marriages performed in sister states. Most notably, in 1996, Congress enacted the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which could give states that enact such legislation further ammunition in their efforts to deny recognition to same-sex marriages that may be legally sanctioned in sister states.

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