Same Sex Couple in New York Allowed to Divorce
A New York judge ruled that the divorce between two women could continue. The couple was married in Massachusetts but can now obtain their divorce in New York, according to Law.com.
Supreme Court Justice Rosalyn Richter could not find a reason “to carve out a unique exception for the parties.” According to the couple’s divorce lawyer, Nancy Chemtob, the decision is a first of its kind because it is the first time a judge has “afforded full faith and credit” to a same-sex marriage that occurred in the U.S.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:30 pm
I am wrestling with whether or not I advocate giving ALL people the right to marry, no matter what or who. I keep thinking, what if three or four people want to get married. Is that okay? What if somone wants to marry an animal? Should that be okay? Why isn’t polygamy and bigamy okay if all adults are consenting? The trouble is, if the test is that adults are consenting, and that we should all be free to marry whomever we want, what argument could we make as a society to proscribe certain unions, such as those that involve more than two people, or those that involve people and animals, or people and things, or other constellations that we find objectionable? Isn’t it hypocritical to say that only two people can get married at a time if same sex marriages are in fact given legal recognition? I mean, I sympathize, but I think it is a slippery slope. Once same sex marriages are okay, then it will open a flood gate of marital scenarios that I don’t think society is prepared to handle. Either every body can marry whomever or whatever they want when they want (total complete freedom), or marriage should stay as it is now, between one man and one woman. It’s the only rational way. I feel bad for genuine couples who can’t get married, but the alternative is too dangerous.
M. Lewis, Esq.