NYC TURNS DOWN SAME-SEX COUPLES, NYACK MAYOR PLANS TO SUE: From the New York Times

["Like suffragettes a century ago at the polling place"--I love it. Spin, little analogy! spin!--Eve of course.]

The growing fight over same-sex unions reached New York City yesterday as dozens of gay and lesbian couples seeking marriage licenses were turned away at the City Clerk's office in Manhattan and hundreds of protesters demanding same-sex marriage rights rallied outside City Hall.

The rebuffs at the marriage-license counter were not confrontational, just a genteel turning away, two by two, like suffragettes a century ago at the polling place. The protest demonstration was also peaceful, if noisy; Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg urged the supplicants to take their cause to Albany.

But it was the opening salvo of New York's gay and lesbian community for equal marriage rights. A day after the New York Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer, declared that current laws prohibited same-sex weddings, but suggested--in a kind of blueprint for gay advocates--that the courts would ultimately resolve the issue, the first constitutional challenge appeared to be taking shape in Nyack, N.Y., where a gay mayor was denied a marriage license yesterday and vowed to sue the state.

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