Civil Disobedience- Presiding at Same Gender Weddings in March 2004

Daily Freeman - News - 03/28/2004 - New Paltz inn hosts 11 more same-sex weddings 03/28/2004
New Paltz inn hosts 11 more same-sex weddings
                  
          


NEW PALTZ - Same-sex couples exchanged marriage vows Saturday in New Paltz for the fifth consecutive weekend.
Eleven couples were wed outside the LeFevre House bed-and-breakfast on Southside Avenue, bringing to 99 the number of gay weddings performed in the village since Mayor Jason West presided over the first ceremonies at the Village Hall on Feb. 27.
Saturday's ceremonies were conducted by three Unitarian Universalist ministers - Frank Hall, Lyn Plumb and Ed Thompson - and United Church of Christ minister Tomi Jacobs.West and Unitarian minister Kay Greenleaf, both of whom have been charged with violating the state's Domestic Relations Law for marrying unlicensed couples, attended Saturday's nuptials but did not participate.

A spokesman for New Paltz Equality Initiative, the group organizing the weddings, said no same-sex weddings will be performed next weekend in New Paltz and that the ceremonies will resume the weekend of April 10. After that, ceremonies will be held every other weekend, he said.