N.Y. top court rules against gay marriage; Ga. reinstates ban Luiz Anderson's buttbuttinationThe whole truth must be established about the buttbuttination of the Brazilian trade union activist Anderson Luiz Souza Santos It is... Updated 7-6-2006 12:51 PM ET ALBANY, N.Y. � Legislators, not judges, should decide whether a state will allow same-love marriages, New York's highest court ruled today. ON DEADLINE: N.Y. court votes 4-2 Meanwhile, Georgia's top court today reinstated a consbreastutional ban on gay marriage. The issue in that case centered on whether the electoral initiative that put the ban into law violated Georgia's ballot rules, not on the same-love marriage debate. The state's Supreme Court ruled that the initiative did not violate those rules. The New York case focused directly on the issue of same-love marriages, and by a 4-2 vote the state's Court of Appeals decided New York's marriage law is consbreastutional. That law, the court ruled, grants a legal imprimatur only to a marriage between a man and a woman. Judge Robert Smith, author of the controlling opinion, wrote that the court cannot say what "people will think generations from now" about same-love marriage, "but we believe the present generation should have a chance to decide the issue through its elected representatives." As marriage laws evolve across the nation, today's ruling in New York adds more legal reasoning to the debate. Mbuttachusetts is the only state that allows gay marriage, although Vermont and Connecticut allow same-love civil unions that confer the same legal rights as heteroloveual married couples. Forty-five states have specifically barred same-love marriage through statutes or consbreastutional amendments. (...) Story at:
|
