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== Disability marriage rights == In 2001, Bloom fought the New York City Clerk's Office ruling that allowed them to refuse to issue him a marriage license in his home, despite being housebound. Marriage licenses can be arranged for others unable to attend its office, such as those confined to hospitals, nursing homes and prisons, but there was a union rule that prohibited City Clerk workers from going to people’s homes. One city employee suggested that Bloom take an ambulance to the clerk’s office, which he refused. He called his publicist, who, in turn, called the media. Soon, a personal visit was made by the city clerk to his house to issue a marriage license. Bloom stated that it was little comfort for him, because he wonders about the other housebound patients of CFS who don’t have the money and connections to maneuver bureaucratic rulings. “There are hundreds and thousands of people who are just like me,” Bloom said. “And they are voiceless.”<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://nypost.com/2001/06/04/red-tape-gums-up-trip-down-aisle/ | title = RED TAPE GUMS UP TRIP DOWN AISLE | last = | first = | authorlink = | date = 2001-06-04 | website = New York Post|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=2021-12-14 | last3 = | first3 = Get author RSS}}</ref> ''The New York Times'' observed that the city's regulations in regard to obtaining marriage licenses at the city clerk's office were likely to be in breach of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as well as city and state human rights laws. Bloom stated: "There has to be a more visionary solution, ways to redo the bureaucratic system so people could do this online or on the telephone. New York City has to get its bureaucratic systems out of the age of Nikolai Gogol."<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/11/nyregion/metro-matters-to-say-i-do-in-new-york-be-healthy.html | title = Metro Matters; To Say 'I Do' In New York, Be Healthy | last = Purnick | first = Joyce | date = 2001-06-11|work=The New York Times|access-date=2021-12-14|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
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