Monday, December 20, 2004

The voice of reason

The Social Security Administration is rejecting marriage documents issued for heterosexual couples in four communities that performed weddings for gay couples earlier this year.

The agency is rejecting all marriage certificates issued in New Paltz, N.Y., after Feb. 27, when the town's mayor began marrying gay couples, according to town officials.

Certificates issued during the brief periods when Asbury Park, N.J., Multnomah County, Ore., and Sandoval County, N.M., recognized gay marriages are also being rejected.

Susie Kilpatrick, 30, of New Paltz, said the local Social Security office told her that no marriage documents issued after Feb. 27 could be used to establish identity because of the gay marriages that took place there earlier this year. About 125 heterosexual couples have been married since then.
Galveston Co Daily News article

Here's something new I learned from this site: Less than a dozen states lack laws banning gay marriage, but only one state (Florida) bars gay couples from adopting children. How do the marriage banners sell that point? It's okay for you gay people to adopt children, but not to get married. I'm a little puzzled.

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