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posted Friday, February 19, 2010 - Volume 38 Issue 08 Md. attorney general: State to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhereBy Aaron C. Davis and John Wagner Washington Post Staff Writers Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler (D) said Wednesday that effective immediately, and until challenged in court, the state recognizes same-sex marriages performed elsewhere and that Maryland agencies should begin affording out-of-state gay couples all the rights they have been awarded in other places. "State agencies in Maryland will recognize out-of-state gay marriages as of right now," Gansler said at a news conference explaining the effect of a long-awaited opinion he released Wednesday morning. Earlier in the day, most lawmakers in the state capital had interpreted Gansler's opinion as having not gone that far. But Gansler said that in his role as the chief legal adviser to all executive branch agencies, his opinion now dictates how state agencies should respond when same-sex couples from elsewhere request benefits and legal protections they would have been awarded in the four New England states and Iowa, where same-sex marriages are legal. full story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/24/AR2010022403630.html |
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