GROUP FILES LAWSUIT SEEKING BENEFITS FOR GAY LONG ISLAND COUPLE: From the Associated Press

An organization that advocates for gay rights filed a lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of a homosexual couple from Long Island who married last year in Canada, but were denied spousal health benefits from the Uniondale Union Free School District, an attorney said.

"New York law is clear that when couples get validly married somewhere else, their marriages are recognized in New York," said Alphonso David, an attorney at Lambda Legal, which filed the suit in state Supreme Court in Mineola.

"It doesn't matter that same-sex couples can't get married in New York right now--if they were married legally somewhere else, the law says they're legally married here."

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