NY Times: “Fighting Same-Sex Policy Seems to Be Uphill Battle”
Legal challenges to Gov. David A. Paterson’s plan to recognize same-sex marriages from other jurisdictions are likely to come thick and fast. But they face an uphill fight, legal experts said on Thursday, given New York’s unusual legal terrain . . .
She went on to write, quoting a Court of Appeals decision from 1953, that the public-policy exception, also called the natural-law exception, “has generally been limited to marriages involving polygamy or incest or marriages offensive to the public sense of morality to a degree regarded generally with abhorrence.”
“That cannot be said here,” Justice Peradotto concluded.
ADF attorney Brian Raum is quoted.