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Lansing City Pulse-
Later today, Lansing City Clerk Chris Swope and his husband will file an affidavit with the Ingham County Register of Deed’s Office securing their property rights as a married couple. But they’ll be using their Canadian marriage license as a backing document — a first in the state of Michigan, where same sex marriage is not legally recognized.
“This is going to be a big deal,” said Emily Dievendorf, managing director of Equality Michigan, an LGBT advocacy group. “This is something that may set some type of precedent or at the very least start a discussion and will hopefully give our local governments a way to provide some stability to the same-sex couples in our communities.”
To Dievendorf’s knowledge, nothing like this has been attempted in Michigan.