Albany, NY – New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ordered an investigation into a small-town clerk’s denial of a marriage license for a same-sex couple.
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The Democrat has directed a state agency to investigate Laurel Eriksen’s recent decision not to issue a license to Thomas Hurd and Dylan Toften, who wrote about the rejection on his Facebook page Monday .
Officials in the town of Root, 40 miles (64 kilometers) northwest of Albany, say Eriksen’s job is part-time and she declined to issue the license because the couple hadn’t made an appointment.
The town’s attorney acknowledged that Eriksen said she mentioned her personal objection to same-sex marriage to the couple.
Gay marriage has been legal in New York since 2011.
Cuomo called the license denial “an unconscionable act of discrimination” and offered to officiate at their wedding.
Did Cuomo ask the Pope about that one?
Well, we will have to see how this all plays out.
Wow, finally a courageous public servant who resists evil. Evil is evil, even when legalized.
#3. Oppressing Gay people used to be quite common in Europe two generations ago. It was wrong then and it is wrong now.
To #4 - You are always quick to criticize social problems in the USA; however, you don’t have the guts to do so in Saudi Arabia, where you live, where gays are persecuted. Either put up, or shutup!