ALBANY – Several judges on the Court of Appeals expressed concern yesterday over the legal ramifications of recognizing same-sex marriages solemnized in other jurisdictions even though such unions remain invalid if contracted within New York.
As about 75 minutes of oral arguments played out in Godfrey v. Spano, 147, and Lewis v. New York State Department of Civil Service, 148, the judges increasingly focused on what a broad application of the state’s marriage recognition rule to out-of-state marriages of same-sex couples would mean for such couples in New York.
