ARGUMENTS IN NY SSM CASE: From The Associated Press

Attorneys for 25 same-sex couples seeking the right to marry said Friday the state's opposition to gay marriage is akin to the mentality that once allowed slavery and discrimination against women and minorities.

"The basis of the (the state's) opposition is that it goes against tradition. If tradition carried on, we would still have slavery," said Mariette Geldenhuys, one of the attorneys for the same-sex couples that have been dubbed the "Ithaca 50."

Geldenhuys, in arguments here before state Supreme Court Justice Robert Mulvey, also pointed out the state made it illegal in 2002 to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation and also allows same-sex couples to adopt children.

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