ALBANY, NY – New York Supreme Court Judge Robert Wiggins has agreed to allow the organization, New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedom to proceed with their lawsuit seeking to overturn the passage of the state’s same-sex marriage law.
The judge’s four-page decision was critical of Governor Andrew Cuomo for issuing a “message of necessity” that rushed the legislation onto the Senate floor on the final evening of session. In the case of same-sex marriage, the message stated that speed was required as long as 50,000 New York gay couples were being denied their right to marry, a set of circumstances that had pertained for the previous 200 years without prompting emergency action.
However, Wiggins admits that since the Senate accepted the message, the matter isn’t one for the courts to meddle in.