The new law penalizes marriage and for many upper-middle income families may boost federal marginal tax rates well above 40%.
Attorneys for the State and City of New York, who were defending the marriage law, disagreed.
Stevenson points out that the just-passed New York law allowing same sex marriage has no residency requirement.
The New Hampshire legislature this month is expected to vote on a bill that would repeal the same-sex marriage law there.
Hughes is Eldridge's spouse under New York law but, pursuant to the Defense of Marriage Act, not under federal law.
Only Massachusetts allows same-sex marriage, although six other states have allowed civil unions that are marriages in all but name, and a law allowing full marriage rights passed through the lower house of New York's state legislature on June 19th.
The New York State Senate passed a bill ending the ban on gay marriage this evening, and New York governor, Andrew Cuomo, signed it into law.
The commission also recommended abolishing another unique area of New York law known as the O'Brien precedent, which considers licenses or degrees earned during the marriage to be marital property.
On the flipside, Referendum 74, on the Washington state ballot, asks voters to repeal a new law that the legislature passed earlier this year and Governor Christine Gregoire signed, legalizing same-sex marriage.
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Fewer than 100 days after Gibson survived his first reelection campaign, wealthy 26-year-old investor Sean Eldridge--who is married to Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes and campaigned for New York's gay-marriage law--filed Federal Election Commission papers to run in the district.
He admitted same-sex marriage, opposed by some of his MPs and activists, was divisive but said he was proud the new law had been passed by MPs.
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