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Court of Appeals: Maryland must recognize same-sex marriages from other states

(Headline: Court of Appeals: Maryland must recognize same-sex marriages from other states)

Maryland must recognize as married same-sex couples who legally wed in other states, Maryland’s top court unanimously ruled Friday. In its 7-0 decision, the Court of Appeals said recognition is required under the legal doctrine of “comity” because same-sex marriage is neither “repugnant” to the state’s public policy nor expressly prohibited by state law. “Maryland recognizes liberally foreign marriages, even those marriages that may be prohibited from being formed if conducted in this state,” Judge Glenn T. Harrell Jr. wrote for the high court. “Liberal recognition of out of state marriages promotes uniformity in the recognition of the marital status, so that persons legally married according to the laws of one state will not be held to be living in adultery in another state, and that children begotten in lawful wedlock in one state will not be illegitimate in another.” The Court of Appeals’ ruling comes as a Maryland state law permitting same-sex marriages is slated to go into effect Jan. 1. But that law, the Civil Marriage Protection Act, will likely be put before Maryland voters this fall, as opponents of the measure are pressing to put it on the Election Day ballot in November. Ironically, the Maryland court issued its ruling by essentially granting the divorce of a lesbian couple that married in California when the state permitted same-sex couples to wed. http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/05/18/court-of-appeals-maryland-must-recognize-same-sex-marriages-from-other-states/

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