![]() "It's a huge step forward, and yet it doesn't erase the fact that there's so many roadblocks facing advocates of marriage equality," said George Chauncey, a historian at Yale and the author of "Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940." But most states have either laws or constitutional amendments barring same-sex marriage, and federal law bars the United States government from recognizing same-sex marriages. Several other states are considering following suit, and on Sunday, some gay rights advocates plan to gather in Hoboken to call on New Jersey lawmakers to follow New York's lead and allow gay couples to wed. New York is the sixth, and largest, state to legalize same-sex marriage. "There may not be much more to say at this point," Joseph Zwilling, a spokesman for the archdiocese, said. Patrick's Cathedral, the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, for example, the homilist planned to speak on other subjects. But a sampling of pastors in the New York City area found that most did not intend to discuss same-sex marriage in their sermons on Sunday.
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