City Council speaker urges Bloomberg to permit gay marriages
February 29, 2004, 4:59 PM EST
NEW YORK (AP) _ City Council Speaker Gifford Miller has called on Mayor Michael Bloomberg to permit same-sex couples to marry in New York. "In this city of tolerance, diversity and unity it is past time that Mayor Bloomberg give the civil right of marriage to same-sex couples and immediately instruct the city clerk to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples," Miller said at a news conference Sunday.