ALBANY – Legislators were entitled to hear Mayor Michael Bloomberg make his case in private for the recognition of gay marriage, Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman argued in his defense of the state’s Marriage Equality Act.
Mr. Bloomberg’s lobbying technique was one of several complaints about the way in which the law was passed (NYLJ, June 26) lodged before Supreme Court Justice Robert B. Wiggins in Livingston County by New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms. The group, which is based near Rochester, is a conservative Christian coalition that contends the recognition of same-sex marriages is illegal in New York.
