Gay Marriage

“Judge Solomon A. Metzger of the Office of Administrative Law ruled last Thursday that Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association violated state anti-discrimination laws when it did not allow a lesbian couple to use its boardwalk pavilion in 2007.”

Longtime town clerk Rose Marie Belforti handles building permits, hunting licenses and government records for people in this farm-heavy Finger Lakes community.Marriage licenses are a different story, because of her faith.Shortly after New York became the sixth and largest state to sanction gay marriage this summer, Belforti told town board members her Christian beliefs preclude her from issuing licenses to same-sex couples.

“Court records state that Walker, who ruled it unconstitutional to keep the voter-approved ban known as Proposition 8 on the books, should be disqualified from deciding anything in this particular same-sex marriage case because of his long-term partner of the same sex.”

“We are not going to rest until the people of this state get a vote”

“A Florida high school has suspended its 2010 Teacher of the Year over Facebook comments he made against gay marriage.”