Our Allies: Straight Brooklyn Couple Applies to Annul Marriage Because Gay Marriage Still Not Legal

[WillParkinson]

Ruby-Sachs: Straight Brooklyn Couple Applies to Annul Marriage Because Gay Marriage Still Not Legal
By Emma Ruby-Sachs, 365gay blogger 12.04.2009 9:51am EST

A couple in Brooklyn is looking to challenge the legitimacy of straight marriages in light of the recent New York Senate vote against gay marriage rights. Their strategy: apply for an annulment.

An annulment is usually reserved for marriages where there is no consummation of the marriage (yep, that means sex), insanity, fraud or one or both members of the couple entered into marriage while under duress. Unlike a divorce, it claims that the marriage was never viable and legal or that the situation has changed so significantly through no fault of either member of the couple that the marriage must be dissolved.

But this week I was invited to join a Facebook group run by Rachel Murch D’Olimpio and Matthew D’Olimpio: New York residents who are going to apply for an annulment on the grounds that their marriage contract violates constitutional equality guarantees and is thus void. The group already has over 700 members.

http://www.365gay.com/blog/ruby-sachs-straight-brooklyn-couple-applies-to-annul-marriage-because-gay-marriage-still-not-legal/

[joeybee12]

1. Woo-hoo! I like this couple! n/t

[Walk away]

2. I honestly believe that these set backs are only the beginning...

of better things to come. It won't be long before the entire country looks back on this time as the dark ages of civil rights.

That said, I am very sorry about the New York's vote. It's a shame that those crooks in the state senate should be allowed to effect the lives of decent, hard working people.