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mayor announces strong support for marriage equality

New York City
mayor announces strong support for marriage equality

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In his weekly radio address Sunday, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg (pictured) said he supports marriage equality and urged New York's highest court to rule in favor of five gay couples seeking the right to marry.

In his weekly radio address Sunday, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg announced he supports marriage equality and urged New York's highest court to rule in favor of five gay couples seeking the right to marry. But regardless of the way the New York State Court of Appeals rules in the case, to be heard this week, Bloomberg said he expects same-sex weddings to be performed in the city soon, reports local television station NY1. "If the Court of Appeals rules that same-sex marriages are legal, then we'll perform them," Bloomberg said in the radio address, according to NY1. "If they rule the other way, our administration will begin working with the State Legislature for a new law that establishes marriage equality for all New Yorkers, and will do so in partnership with City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and the growing number of elected and civic leaders who stand with us." Bloomberg, a Republican who was a Democrat until he ran for the mayor's office in 2001, added that he opposes a federal constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. "The U.S. Constitution should be something that unites, rather than divides Americans," he said in the address, according to the New York Daily News. "I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling people who they can and can't marry." (The Advocate)

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