we ned to all be out there applying marriage licenses


From the The Advocate
Long Island same-sex couples seek gay-friendly town clerks

The battle over same-sex marriages moved Friday to Long Island, N.Y., where about 50 gay and lesbian couples rode from city to city in search of a town clerk willing to issue them marriage licenses. "Shame! Shame!" they chanted at one stop after the clerk read a statement reaffirming the edict by state attorney general Eliot Spitzer that gay marriages are not allowed in New York. Their first stop was at Babylon Town Hall, where a horn-honking caravan led by a brightly painted bus arrived Friday morning. Sheree Jeanes, 33, and Bonnie Reich, 42, of Huntington, entered the clerk's office only to receive a one-page statement shooting down their marriage plans. "We're disappointed," Jeanes said. "We want the same rights as any other couple, and we feel that we deserve that." Her partner said they would join any legal action taken to help their cause.