What convinced Mr. Bloomberg to authorize the appeal , Mr. Skyler said , were his lawyers ' arguments that the city should avoid what happened last year in San Francisco after its mayor , Gavin Newsom , issued thousands of marriage licenses to same-sex couples .
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