28.09.11
When the phase of the legalization of gay marriage during the summer, many people, gay and straight, were excited. Some were not. A committed state has resigned rather than sign his name on a gay marriage license, and now another cleric refuses to join state marriage licenses to same sex. Only this time, it is not resigned.
Rose Marie Belforti, an insignificant clerk of the city north of the State of Ledyard, refused to sign a license to a lesbian who together have been together for 10 years, Deirdre and Katie Carmichael DiBiaggio, because of his beliefs picky ."God does not want me to do that, so I can not do what God did not want me," said Belfort. But, "New York law protects my right to limit my work and my convictions .. . I'm not supposed to have to leave my beliefs at the door of my government job. "His oh-so-close workaround is to hold the hand of a deputy to the question of all marriage licenses by appointment, for homosexual couples and heterosexual.
"For the principle tells us to climb on the back of the line is just not acceptable," said Carmichael, who, with DiBiaggio is considering legal action against Belfort.And Governor Cuomo agrees: "When you need the laws of the State, you do not get to choose," he said A request has already begun online for Belforti out of the office, and another resident Ledyard, Ed Easter. Belforti in trying to do a write in campaign, when she is up for reelection in November. "Just endorse it out of the office," he said. Democracy in action, people!
Source: Gothamist