About time the law got involved

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Mayor faces charges for marrying gays

BY ANDREW METZ AND SUMATHI REDDY
ALBANY BUREAU March 2, 2004, 4:54 PM EST

Four days after presiding over a slew of same sex marriages in his quaint Hudson Valley village, the mayor of New Paltz today was charged with 19 violations of New York's domestic relations law, injecting the debate over gay marriages in the state with increasing drama and urgency.

Jason West, 26-year-old Green Party mayor, was ordered to appear in court Wednesday to answer charges that he broke state law by solomizing about two dozen weddings without a marriage license, according to New Paltz police and West's lawyer.

Chief Raymond Zappone said he and a lieutenant from the town police served a 19-count summons to West Tuesday afternoon and that the mayor faces up a $500 fine and a year in jail for his actions which have attracted international attention and brought the fight over gay marriages squarely into New York.

The actions come as West is planning to hold more ceremonies this weekend and with other officials around the state considering similar actions. It also coincides with increasing pressure on State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who last week refused a call by the governor to prevent and nullify the marriages, to step in and issue some clarifying words on the complex legal issues at play.
Copyright © 2004, Newsday, Inc.
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I know the Cal registrar is not accepting them in the first place, making them null & void on delivery.
 
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Nyack Mayor John Shields will join the New Paltz mayor, Jason West, in issuing the licenses. West vowed to go ahead with up to two dozen same-sex weddings this weekend, despite being charged with 19 criminal counts and possibly facing jail time for marrying gay couples.
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West, 26, said he was motivated by civil rights and ``common decency'' to join the vanguard of the growing gay marriage movement, along with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.
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source: http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/ap/ap_story.html/National/AP.V6884.AP-Gay-Marriage.html
 
The headline in your quote is just stupid Gonz - it makes it sound like he went around getting married to a bunch of gay people :rolleyes:
 
Actually, AT, that is the correct usage of the word.

You marry a person. But you are married by someone else. Hence, he married the two of you.
 
Yeah, I know you are married by someone else and marry a person. But marrying could be the act of getting married or performing the ceremony and in that headline it sounds like he's getting married to them (present participle / present progressive tense).

They should have said he faces charges for allowing / endorsing gay marriage.
 
At last somebody is doing it in the correct order...

SEATTLE - Six same-sex couples filed a lawsuit Monday seeking the right to get married after they were refused marriage licenses by a sympathetic public official, as the mayor ordered the city to recognize the marriages of gay city employees who tie the knot elsewhere.

The six couples applied for marriage licenses at the King County Administration Building but were rejected because of a state law that defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

County Administrator Ron Sims said he supported the couples’ efforts, but had no choice but to uphold the law.
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The source is on top, this time...
 
AlphaTroll said:
It still just sounds wrong :shrug:
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Actually...you're closer to the truth than Prof is, in this case.

The same priest that gave me the first joke almost bowled me over with this one. Last week, a young couple came to his office and asked
"Can you marry us?"
Without skipping a beat or even blinking, Brother Tom say "Marry both of you? I can't...that would be bigamy."

I asked him about the right to marry as opposed to the privalege to marry...and he stated that marrying is something which two people do to each other. The priest is merely there to bless the marriage and fill out the legal paperwork.

This is the important part. - People marry each other(it's an agreement between two people)....priest do not marry you, they lend you their church, they may help you organize it and help you fill in the paperwork, they bless your union, but they do not marry you....that's your job.

When you make your VOWS to your partner...you are swearing your fealty and love for the other person...the priest is basically a commisioner of oaths...
 
Actually, the courts are equally guilty of breaking the law. Nobody brought a suit forward on this. The Court is as out of bounds as the Mayor.
 
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