This was highly controversial, with both the legality of issuing the licenses and the efficacy of the purported marriages being contested. During the month that licenses were issued, couples travelled from all over the United States and from other countries to be married. On August 12, citing the mayor's lack of authority to bypass state law, the state Supreme Court ruled that the marriages were void (Newsom)...
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The mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg is appealing a lower court's decision to allow the city clerk to issue marriage licenses to homosexuals (Economist, vol. 374). In July 2004, the state of New Jersey enacted a law that is practically the same as a typical civil union, giving same-sex couples most of the rights associated with marriage...
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Homosexual Adoptions Depending on what age a child is adopted the child may have emotional or physical problems. By putting a child in a homosexual household you are opening him up to even more ridicule and abuse...	2 / 457
Homosexual Adoptions The child's parents would influence the child's perception of normal and natural relationships. A child tends to imitate its parents this means a child that is raised by homosexual parents is more likely to be homosexual than those who are raised by heterosexual parents...	3 / 579
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