"Acting to further the equal protection and nondiscrimination provisions of the California Constitution, San Francisco officials went beyond the "man and a woman" definition of marriage in state law last week by issuing licenses to same-sex couples. On the same day, the New York City clerk disregarded not only constitutional principles, but also existing state statutes by refusing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Unlike California law, New York's matrimonial law does not restrict marriage licenses to persons of the opposite sex, in the view of leading legal authorities.