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发帖数: 4174 | 1 New Mexico, nicknamed the Land of Enchantment, is also a land of equality
for same-sex couples, at least in the opinion of several Santa Fe city
officials.
The city’s mayor and other leaders held a press conference today to
announce that they believe nothing in state law prevents the issuance of
marriage licenses to gay couples, and they want to pass a resolution urging
county clerks to begin granting the licenses immediately, the Santa Fe New
Mexican reports.
“It’s time to push this issue,” Mayor David Coss said at the event, where
he was joined by City Council member Patti Bushee and city attorney Geno
Zamora. Zamora and his staff recently prepared a legal opinion stating, “
New Mexico’s statutory definition of marriage is gender-neutral. Since New
Mexico does not define marriage as between a man and a woman, and since New
Mexico does not prohibit same-sex marriage, same-sex marriage is permitted
in New Mexico.”
Coss, who is the father of a lesbian daughter, and Bushee, the only openly
gay City Council member, plan to put a resolution before the council
declaring same-sex marriage legal in the state and calling on county clerks
to issue the licenses. They expect some resistance from the clerks and other
officials, however. In 2004 the Sandoval County clerk granted marriage
licenses to 64 gay couples before the state attorney general ordered her to
stop and invalidated the licenses.
Santa Fe County clerk Geraldine Salazar told the New Mexican that she would
love to issue licenses to same-sex couples but believes current law does not
allow her to do so. “The legislature creates the laws and the judges
interpret the laws, and I as a county clerk do not create or interpret laws,
” Salazar said. Bushee said she expects the issue to eventually reach the
state Supreme Court.
Coss added that he would like to see his daughter having the same right to
marriage as anyone else. “As a dad, I’d just like to walk her down the
aisle some day and I will never get to do that if we don’t move on these
issues in Santa Fe,” he said. “Santa Fe is ready. New Mexico is ready, I
know. Our country is ready to move on this.”
http://www.advocate.com/politics/marriage-equality/2013/03/19/m | D**S
发帖数: 24887 | 2 有些没看懂啊
如果没有州立法，难道一个城市可以自作主张么？ | g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 3 州也没有立法禁止啊，行不行打官司，This is the point in the article.
【在 D**S 的大作中提到】
: 有些没看懂啊
: 如果没有州立法，难道一个城市可以自作主张么？
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发帖数: 19713 | 4 SF不就是可以结婚吗？虽然加州不合法。
【在 D**S 的大作中提到】
: 有些没看懂啊
: 如果没有州立法，难道一个城市可以自作主张么？
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