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More progress on marriage equality

From DailyKos:

After seeing those Field Poll numbers this morning, I suspect there will be more Blue State governors and legislatures willing to hop on the bandwagon. Like New York.

Gov. David A. Paterson has directed all state agencies to begin to revise their policies and regulations to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions, like Massachusetts, California and Canada.

In a directive issued on May 14, the governor’s legal counsel, David Nocenti, instructed the agencies that gay couples married elsewhere “should be afforded the same recognition as any other legally performed union.”

The revisions are most likely to involve as many as 1,300 statutes and regulations in New York governing everything from joint filing of income tax returns to transferring fishing licenses between spouses.

Ain't progress grand? And that last paragraph above is telling -- there are 1,300 statutes and regulations that are affected by this decision? That's 1,300 statutes and regulations that have been discriminating against people based on sexual orientation.

That it's taken this long to start addressing it is depressing. That it's actually happening now is inspiring.

There are now two states that allow gay marriage -- Massachusetts and California. New York now legally recognizes those marriages. Connecticut, Vermont, New Jersey, New Hampshire and Connecticut all allow civil unions, giving same-sex couple most of the rights accorded to heterosexual marriages.

Update: Patterson's directive was issued on May 14, so it wasn't a result of the California Supreme Court's decision, nor today's poll. The wording of the post suggests that and it's not true.