Group Files Suit To Stop Paterson’s Gay Marriage Directive
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A Christian legal organization has filed a lawsuit to stop Governor Paterson’s directive telling state agencies to recognize same-sex marriages legally performed out-of-state.
The Alliance Defense Fund says it filed its lawsuit yesterday in the Bronx. Several Republican state senators are named as party to the suit.
The Arizona-based ADF is a group of lawyers that has intervened in gay marriage and religious freedom cases including those involving abortion and what it calls traditional family values. The group already has pending lawsuits against New York state government over earlier attempts to extend marriage rights to gay couples.
Even though gay marriage is unconstitutional in New York, Mr. Paterson has said New York must recognize marriage legally performed in Massachusetts, Canada, and other places that allow gay marriages.
