Il y a actuellement six états (en bleu sur la carte)qui reconnaissent les mariages entre conjoints de même sexe. Il y a également un certain nombre d'états qui reconnaissent des droits à ce type d'union. Cependant, l'importance de l'état de New York (symboliquement et démographiquement) amène des observateurs à se demander si les répercussions du vote d'hier soir se feront ressentir ailleurs au pays.
Selon un article de Reuters:
"When New York became the sixth and by far the largest state to legalize same-sex marriage, following a grueling overtime session in the state Legislature Friday, it immediately transformed the national debate over the issue, legal experts said.
With a population over 19 million -- more than the combined population of the five states that currently allow gay marriage, plus the District of Columbia, where it is also legal -- New York is poised to provide the most complete picture yet of the legal, social and economic consequences of gay marriage.
"I think that having same-sex marriage in New York will have tremendous moral and political force for the rest of the country -- in
part because New York is a large state, and in part because it hasn't come easily,'' said Suzanne Goldberg, a professor at Columbia Law School.
The New York Assembly passed same-sex marriage legislation twice before, in 2007 and 2009, but in both cases it stalled in the state Senate, as it nearly did again this week. The bill passed late Friday after legislators agreed on language allowing religious organizations to refuse to perform services or lend space for same-sex weddings.
The new law's impact can be measured in part by the numbers at play: New York is home to more than 42,000 same-sex couples, according to an analysis of U.S. census data conducted by the Williams Institute. This means, among other things, that the number of same-sex couples living in states allowing same-sex marriage has more than doubled overnight."
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