{"id":1217,"date":"2008-02-03T12:51:06","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T12:51:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-02-03T12:51:06","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T12:51:06","slug":"new-york-will-recognize-and-honor-same-sex-unions-from-elsewhere-gay-marriage-is-okay-in-new-york-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2008\/02\/new-york-will-recognize-and-honor-same-sex-unions-from-elsewhere-gay-marriage-is-okay-in-new-york-state\/","title":{"rendered":"New York will recognize and honor same-sex unions from elsewhere.  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County of Monroe, was filed in 2005 in State Supreme Court on behalf of Patricia Martinez , an employee of Monroe Community College in Rochester, seeking health care benefits for her female partner whom she married in Canada in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a victory for families, it\u2019s a victory for fairness and it\u2019s a victory for human rights,\u201d said Donna Lieberman, executive director of the N.Y.C.L.U. \u201cCongratulations to all same-sex couples validly married outside of New York State: You are now husband and husband, wife and wife. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyclu.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Now we need to work toward a New York where you don\u2019t have to cross state or country lines to get married.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although lesbian and gay citizens of New York cannot marry, those who marry elsewhere in the world will be supported<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[11,375,282],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New York will recognize and honor same-sex unions from elsewhere. 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