City Bar President Samuel W. Seymour addresses a news conference yesterday where 18 New York bar groups came out to support a bill that would recognize same-sex marriages in the state (NYLJ, May 17).

In their remarks at the city bar’s 44th Street headquarters, Mr. Seymour, of Sullivan & Cromwell, and other bar leaders focused on the legal disadvantages faced by unmarried same-sex couples and called civil unions “not an acceptable substitute for marriages.”