New Paltz gay weddings a year later
A year ago New Paltz Mayor Jason West stood atop a platform in the Village Hall parking lot, with a throng of reporters and spectators looking on, and proclaimed "the flowering of the largest civil rights movement this country has seen in a generation." The legal issues - from a gay couple's right to marry to a public official's right to flout state law in deference to his own interpretation of the Constitution - appear headed to New York's highest court. Those who West married, meanwhile, remain in legal limbo with "marriage affidavits" that have helped the couples secure benefits from private employers, yet carry no real weight.
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