Sentences with phrase «civil union statutes»

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Cuomo in May announced the state would defend the statute in a lawsuit filed by the New York Civil Liberties Union.

Furthermore, even when «civil contract» terminology is used in statute, it can not drive a wedge between the general and the ecclesiastical law of marriage: a union authorised by law must be recognised equally as a lawful union by the officers and tribunals of the national religion (Thompson v Dibdin [1912] AC 533) except to the extent that parliament limits parishioners» rights in order to protect individual clerical consciences.

Eight states (see sidebar) have civil union laws, and another eight states have domestic partnership statutes.