Gay Marriage now legal in New York state...for at least a month

If two lesbians got married and moved to New York, would anybody notice? While it’s received virtually no media coverage up here, the answer is yes – and the fight for gay marriage in New York took a cautious step forward yesterday when the state’s highest court announced that it would not hear an appeal of a lawsuit by an upstate New York county … making gay marriage, at least temporarily, the law of the land. As I reported here, a lesbian couple in Rochester, New York, got married in Canada – and then sued for spousal benefits under the premise that New York state law requires the state to recognize marriages performed in other states, even if they would be illegal in New York. Full story...