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JULY 18,2008 JUStlQUt. 17 Diversity Matters - According to The Daily News, the teens threw D-Brooklyn, who sponsored similar legislation garbage at and verbally harassed the Rev. Louis in 1988 and in every legislative session since but Braxton when he stepped in. He was reportedly failed to find enough support in the Republican- hit with a garbage can, metal poles, belts, con led Senate until last month. struction equipment and empty paint cans. Paterson has been supportive of gay rights and According to the article, the teens continued had made domestic violence a priority during his hitting Braxton after he fell to the ground. Two brief tenure as lieutenant governor. other shelter residents were also injured. “New York lagged behind all the other states New York Transportation Authority Police in the Northeast in terms of addressing orders of officers caught the teens and charged them with protection,” he told The New York Times. “We assault as a hate crime, gang assault, weapon pos expanded the coverage to include what we would session and harassment. The accused are two 17- j consider to be intimate relationships. They do year olds, a 16-year old and a 15-year old. not have to be sexual. Theoretically, it could be two people who are dating and haven’t had sex. Expanded Domestic Violence Law They’ve come close, one refuses the other and Includes Same-Sex Couples then the stalking starts.” New York Gov. David A. Paterson said July 9 According to advocacy groups, the current law that he would sign an expansion of New York’s deters teenagers and gay men and women from domestic violence law to allow family court judges seeking protection from abusers, because their to issue civil protection orders against a far broad only recourse is the criminal courts. Civil protec er swath of alleged abusers. tion orders in family court accept a lower burden According to The New York Times, the new of proof and do not require police involvement. law would make it possible for people in dating relationships, heterosexual or gay, to seek protec WISCONSIN Gay Couples Could Face tion from abusers in family court. New York has Prison if They Marry one of the narrowest domestic violence laws in the country, allowing for civil protection orders An obscure Wisconsin law makes it a criminal only against spouses or former spouses, blood re offense to enter into a marriage outside the state lations or the other parent of an abused person’s that would be illegal in Wisconsin. child. This makes criminals out of gay and les The driving force behind the legislation bian couples living in Wisconsin who travel is Assemblywoman Helene E. Weinstein, to California to take advantage of the state’s new same-sex marriage law. The decades-old law was passed to prevent teens from crossing the border to obtain a marriage license. However, The Madison CapitalTimes reported July 2 that the law could be used against same-sex couples. The penalty is a fine of up to $10,000, nine months in prison or both. In 2006, Wisconsin voters passed a same-sex marriage han. 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