NY Court to Make Final Say on Gay Marriage Case
Wednesday, May. 31, 2006

NEW YORK - A more than two-year-long gay ‘‘marriage’’ battle will be taken up in a final hearing by the state's highest court on Wednesday. Gay marriage advocates have set their sights on this day hopeful of marriage licenses as Christians have kept up peaceful protests over the past two years.

High interest in the cases involving five New York City couples who were denied marriage licenses in 2004 is bringing the court to the Internet with live broadcast scheduled for the 2 p.m. hearing in Albany. Churches across the state were reported to have gathered the night before the Court of Appeals makes its final say.

Attorneys for the gay couples are expected to argue that the current law prohibiting same-sex marriage violates the state constitution's guarantee of "equality, liberty and privacy for all New Yorkers." the rest