NY Bar Backs Freedom to Marry for Gays

Albany Times Union
June 21, 2009
The New York State Bar Association has endorsed marriage for gay couples as the "only viable way to establish marriage equality." The vote refines a position the association took four years ago, in which it backed equal rights for same-sex couples but took no position on domestic partnerships, civil unions or marriage. Now, having seen how couples in other states have been denied equal rights under domestic partnerships and civil unions, the group's House of Delegates voted overwhelmingly in a voice vote of about 150 delegates to back marriage as the only equitable solution, said association president Michael E. Getnick. [link]