Mayor To Face Charges in NY Gay Marriage Case

Unlike California, New York believes that people who willfully break the law deserve to be charged with a crime:

The village mayor who challenged New York law by attempting to marry gay couples will face trial, the state's highest court ruled Friday.

New Paltz Village Mayor Jason West faces 24 misdemeanor counts of violating the state's domestic relations law by marrying couples without marriage licenses last year. West's defiance of a law that state officials say forbids gay marriage made the little Hudson Valley village a flashpoint in the national gay marriage debate.

I mention California, because to this day Mayor Gavin Newsome of San Francisco has not been charged with a crime, even though gay marriage was clearly illegal in California when he decided on his own to start marrying gay couples. The Attorney General is not doing his job.