Bruno Weighs Gay Marriage Directive

ALBANY — As New House Of House Of York lawmakers pondered a new directive from Gov. that state federal agencies get revising their policies to honour same-sex marriages conducted outside New York, the Legislature’s top Republican said he had yet to make up one's mind whether to dispute the governor.

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Gov. Saint David A. Paterson, shown at a news conference on budget issues on Wednesday, may force to legalize same-sex unions.

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A lawsuit involving Patricia Martinez and Lisa Golden was cited in the directive changing policies on cheery labor unions in New York.

, the bulk leader of the State Senate, said Thursday morning time that he was surprised by the governor’s order but had not yet read it.

“I’m not going to second-guess it because I haven’t seen it,” Mr. Giordano Bruno said. “I don’t cognize the branchings of this.”

On May 14, Mr. Paterson’s legal counsel, Saint David Nocenti, wrote a memorandum to all state federal agency caputs that directed them to measure their policies and get rewriting them so they follow with a state entreaties tribunal determination that said New House Of York must acknowledge cheery matrimonies performed in other legal powers like Canada and California.

At a news conference on Thursday afternoon, Mr. William Patterson repeated the directive and said that although helium back ups cheery matrimony and will go on to force for it in the future, this was not an “end tally around the Legislature” but merely his reading of current laws on the books.

“I’m followers the law as it always have existed,” he said.

Asked to react to critics of the directive, helium said, “I would propose that if they went back and read the law, that they would come up to a different reading themselves, even if they differ with the conception of matrimony equality.

“If Iodine didn’t take this action,” he added, “I would go forth this state unfastened to law suits. I would go forth the state exchequer unfastened to pecuniary damages.” Mr. Giordano Bruno said Thursday that he and his staff would look at whether the governor had violated the bank checks and balances that base between the executive director and the legislative branches. But he stopped short of saying that Mr. Paterson, A Democrat, had overstepped his authority.

“There’s a constitutional inquiry here,” Mr. Giordano Bruno added. Relations between Mr. Giordano Bruno and Mr. William Patterson have got been especially affable since the governor took over from former Gov. inch March.

Mr. William Patterson reiterated his support for a cheery matrimony bill. “Some of those dizzy legislators who believe I’m doing an end run, maybe they should travel into the Legislature and actually work on it,” helium said. The policy alterations are most likely to affect as many as 1,300 legislative acts and ordinances in New House Of York government everything from joint filing of income taxation tax returns to transferring fishing licences between spouses.

In A videotaped message given to cheery community leadership at a dinner on May 17, Mr. William Patterson described the move as “a strong measure toward matrimony equality.” And people on both sides of the issue said it moved the state closer to fully legalizing same-sex labor labor labor unions in this state.

“Very shortly, there will be 100s and 100s and hundreds, and probably one one one thousands and thousands and thousands of cheery people who have got got their matrimonies recognized by the state,” said Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell, a Democrat who stands for the Upper Berth Occident Side and have pushed for legalisation of cheery unions.

Massachusetts and Golden State are the lone states that have legalized cheery marriage, while others, including New Jersey and Vermont, let civil unions. Forty-one state-supporteds have got laws limiting matrimony as a labor union between a adult male and a woman.

Legal experts said Mr. Paterson’s determination would do New House Of York the lone state that did not itself let cheery matrimony but fully recognized same-sex labor labor unions entered into elsewhere.

The directive is the strongest signaling yet that Mr. Paterson, who developed strong neckties to the cheery community as a legislator, programs to force aggressively to legalize same-sex unions as governor. His predecessor, Mr. Spitzer, introduced a measure last twelvemonth that would have got legalized cheery marriage, but even as he submitted it, doubted that it would pass. The Democratic-dominated Assembly passed the measure, but the Republican-led Senate have refused to name a ballot on it.

Short of an enactment by the Legislature, the directive ordered by Mr. William Patterson is the 1 of the strongest statements a state can make in favour of cheery unions.

“Basically we’ve done everything we can do on matrimony legislatively at this point,” said Sean Saint Patrick Maloney, a senior advisor to Mr. Paterson. “But there are tools in our tool kit on the executive director side, and this is one.” One

Danny Hakim contributed reporting from Capital Of New House Of York and Anahad O'Connor and Tina Kelley from New York.