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Apparently not paying attention, and fooled by the fact that the "bride" wore a dress, officials not only OK'd the marriage license, but conducted the ceremony. They apparently didn't notice or care that both participants had male names. Or maybe, with the way people name kids nowadays, they figured, "what the heck?"
One thing that undoubtedly helped was that Nelson's ID card has an "F" for female on it, because the official who issued it in April assumed from his appearance that he was a woman.
A source with the city clerk's office said:
"Is our system 100 percent foolproof? What system is? We do the best job we can.
"If someone is trying to willfully sneak through, we try to stop it. But you have instances of females [who] have male names and vice versa.
"You've heard of a boy named Sue, right?"
Of course, as same-sex marriage is not legal in New York, the marriage is not valid. That said, it's still a hiliarious story.
Posted June 15th, 2009 by Michael Santo
