Republicans hate gay marriage. They want their jobs back. They are doing their best to keep it from coming to a vote.
The reason, they claim, is because they fear for the religious groups and quasi religious groups (say, Knights of Columbus) who could be sued if they denied a gay marriage on their premises.
You know, the Jim Crow thing. “Sure, you can eat lunch in this country, but not at every counter.”
Fine, Jim Crow it, losers. But at least let us eat.
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Just in time for Gay Pride Weekend:
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/06/marriage_equality_act_state_se.html?imw=Y&f=most-viewed-24h5
The New York state senate has passed Governor Andrew Cuomo's Marriage Equality Act by a vote of 33-29. All Democratic senators but Bronx pastor Ruben Diaz, Sr. (who spoke vehemently against the measure) voted to support the measure. They were supported by Republicans Roy McDonald and James Alesi, who had announced their intentions to support the bill before the vote, and also Steve Saland, who spoke at length about his decision, and said, "I hope that my parents would be proud." Mark Grisanti, too, spoke touchingly about his change of heart. The latter group had held out for alterations in the bill designed to offer increased protections to religious groups who object to same-sex nuptials. Those amendments were agreed upon Friday afternoon and passed in the assembly 82-47 in the early evening. Once the bill is signed by the governor, New York will become the sixth and largest state to legalize marriage for gay couples, more than doubling the number of self-reported gay couples allowed to marry in the United States. It joins New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont and the District of Columbia, which variously legalized marriage equality through the legislatures and through court rulings.
Cuomo's updated bill, which grants same sex couples the same legal rights as heterosexual couples, will go into effect thirty days after it is signed into law.
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