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In a statement, Governor Paterson lauded the ruling as "a wise and fair determination of the policy that holds valid same-sex marriages legally performed in other states".

Question Two asks whether states that do not allow same-sex marriage must regard as valid same-sex weddings performed in other states.

In Maryland, for example, attorney general Douglas F. Gansler said in February that his state should recognize valid same-sex marriages from other states.

But Republicans in Congress believed that he would still veto legislation banning federal recognition of otherwise valid same-sex marriages, giving them a campaign issue: the defense of marriage.

Given Kennedy's history on the issue, I think there is a very good possibility that the Court will strike down DOMA and require the federal government to recognize valid same-sex marriages in the states.

But, after it was decided in her favor, declaring the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) — which barred federal recognition of legally valid same-sex marriages — unconstitutional, it set the Court on an unstoppable path toward its landmark ruling two years later, declaring a nationwide right to same-sex marriage equality.

The state's marriage laws and the amendment violate the US constitution by "precluding same-sex couples from exercising their fundamental right to marry in Arkansas, by not recognizing valid same-sex marriages from other states, and by discriminating on the basis of gender," Baker wrote.

One set of plaintiffs, Amy Zimmerman and Tanya Wexler, who live with their three children in Greenwich Village, said they were encouraged by an opinion from Attorney General Eliot Spitzer of New York that valid same-sex marriages should be recognized there.

To the Editor: Re "A Way Out of the Same-Sex Marriage Mess" (Op-Ed, May 24): Mae Kuykendall's "creative solution" (a sort of state-by-state marriage free-for-all) mentions in passing the most draconian consequence of marriage discrimination: the federal government's nonrecognition of legally valid same-sex marriages because of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act.

In February 2010, Doug Gansler issued an opinion after a nine-month analysis of state laws stating that valid same-sex marriages performed in other states that permit same-sex marriage could be recognized under Maryland law.

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