Intriguing
Forgive my silence. Life got away from me for a moment there, and now I’m back on the day of quite remarkable nuptial news from New York State. Our new governor has declared that New York State must recognize the marriages of gay couples who got hitched elsewhere. This is terribly exciting, since members of my own family were forced to marry quite far afield, in the land of Anne of Green Gables, and to know that their marriage counts where they live is pretty amazing. Of course it is odd that New York is the only state to recognize gay marriages that have happened elsewhere while not allowing gay marriage itself, but the gesture is substantial and I have to admit, I’m a bit surprised to see Governor Paterson making such a statement so early in his term, which has, itself, been flooded with questions of marriage and (in)fidelity since the Spitzer scandal broke.
