Challenge to NY Marriage Equality Thrown Out | Care2 Causes

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Challenge to NY Marriage Equality Thrown Out | Care2 Causes

A New York state appeals court has thrown out a suit challenging the legality of the process by which marriage equality was passed into law by the state’s Senate last year. Reports the Advocate: The Appellate Division of state Supreme Court in Rochester said in a 5-0 decision that closed-door negotiations between Republican senators and campaigners for the bill, including Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, did not violate the state’s Open Meetings Law. New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, a group representing evangelical Protestants that lobbied against the measure’s passage in Albany, filed the suit last year on July 25, one day after the new law took effect. “Today the New York State Appellate Court, Fourth Department upheld New York’s Marriage Equality Act, which ensures that marriage is available to all New York couples regardless of s...

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