[IP] Social Security Administration rejecting heterosexual marriages from gay-friendly towns

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
Date: December 20, 2004 9:53:17 AM EST
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Social Security Administration rejecting heterosexual 
marriages from gay-friendly towns

The NY Times reports that the Social Security Administration is
rejecting all marriage licenses -- for both heterosexual and
homosexual couples from a variety of towns that have issued marriage
licenses to gay couples.  The official reason, according to the
agency's web site, is because "the legality of such documents is
still unresolved at the state level."  The fact that New Paltz,
NY, for example, issues different forms to the different types of
couples is apparently irrelevant.

The AP reports that neither they nor the Times have gotten any
response from the agency.  The nasty, suspicious part of me wonders
if someone is using this to try to sap straight support from gay
marriages.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/nyregion/19marriage.html

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb


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