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Gay Marriage Vote Down to the Wire in N.Y. State

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Posted on Jun 16, 2011
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State Sen. Mark Grisanti is one of a few GOP lawmakers who might tip the balance on the gay marriage issue in New York.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg made a special trip to Albany on Thursday to try to persuade GOP state senators to vote in favor of legalizing gay marriage, but by the end of the business day the issue was still undecided. Although there have been some shifts within their ranks, the vote—should it go forward soon—may come down to one or two key Republicans.  —KA

The Washington Post:

The Democrat-led Assembly passed the bill Wednesday night and Republicans met early Thursday to discuss it behind closed doors. But political considerations got in the way and suddenly gay marriage was linked to a tax cap and rent control. Now, a vote may not come until next week, if at all.

The unprecedented pressure has been clear this week: GOP Sen. Owen Johnson, at 81, spryly ducked under a TV camera’s view and Republican Sen. Roy McDonald, a daring U.S. Army scout in the Vietnam War who flipped to support gay marriage, blurted into reporters’ tape recorders: “Well, (expletive) it, I don’t care what you think,” he said of critics.

While a few senators have teased they could switch sides and use the attention to promote their own measures, the 67-year-old Saland has not tipped his hand and has stayed, in his words, “under the radar.”

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By Shenonymous, June 20, 2011 at 4:10 pm Link to this comment

M’thinks the garbage in your head had putrefied, norry.  It is
doubtful if you could do any research at all, let alone think.

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By norry, June 20, 2011 at 11:32 am Link to this comment

Shenonymous.
“1500 animal species practice homosexuality (see News Medical report).”
Fair go with the BS. you just lost all credibility.
By this heading you want people to believe 1500 animal species practice penile insertion of the rectum and or females with females (imagination needed here) ?
my research on this subject has shown one monkey species that fondle each others crotch in disputes,not to orgasm, just a fondle.Peter Boeckman is only qouting the same sources but bending it to suit his audience.Do some homework !
Not one male animal inserts his penis into another males rectum,FACT.Not one female animal brings another female animal to orgasm, FACT.
Get on with your life, accept who you are ,it’s no big deal if you are gay or whatever, just don’t use BS to justify your own,by what you have written, dilemna.

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By Shenonymous, June 20, 2011 at 5:04 am Link to this comment

The garbage is only in your own bigoted mind, norry.

What is normal?  In the world today, only 16% are White, 25% are
East Asian, 21% South Asian, 15% are Black, 8% are Hispanic, 9% are
Southeast Asian, and 8% are Middle Eastern. Normal in this world is
Asian by a long margin at 55%. So don’t talk about what is or is not
normal. 

1500 animal species practice homosexuality (see News Medical
report). “One fundamental premise in social debates has been that
homosexuality is unnatural. This premise is wrong. Homosexuality
is both common and highly essential in the lives of a number of
species,” explains Petter Boeckman, who is the academic advisor for
the “Against Nature’s Order?” exhibition that was held in October 2006
by Norwegian Natural History Museum of the University of Oslo who
hosted the first exhibition that focuses on homosexuality in the animal
kingdom.

Homosexuality and homosexual behavior has existed for thousands
and thousands of years, probably even before the times of homo-
sapiens.  As one who apparently has not the inclination to find out the
source of your bigotry and the facts about homosexuality, let me just
say that your opinion is not worth one iota more than mine.  I am a
heterosexual who thinks homosexuals are natural humans with natural
sexual preferences.  That is my essential argument.  We won’t go into
the sexual aberrations of heterosexuals as the data is uncountable. 
Unless normal is defined for heterosexual activities, these are the ones
who are not “normal.”  Where do you fit in?

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By Gman, June 19, 2011 at 4:46 pm Link to this comment
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Norry - heterosexuals are doing just fine, without homosexuals, with breaking down the fabric of society to a soulless entity.  How often do heterosexuals murder like it’s going out of style, or rape?  It has become so common that when a comedian makes fun by saying that he would kill or stab his own child nobody even blinks about such a violent statement, instead you laugh it off as if it is a joke.  Heterosexuals have become a joke.

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By norry, June 19, 2011 at 12:12 pm Link to this comment

Another example of politically correctness gone mad.

The promotion of homosexuality as normal is just another part of the plan to totally break the fabric of society down to a soulless entity.
Why do they need to get married.defacto relationships carry the same laws as marriage.
You are being conned big time.

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By norry, June 19, 2011 at 12:01 pm Link to this comment

Shenonymous: Absolute ’ politically correct’ garbage.

The promotion of homosexuality as normal is just another part of the plan to totally break the fabric of society down to a soulless entity.
Why do they need to get married.defacto relationships carry the same laws as marriage.
You are being conned big time.

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By Shenonymous, June 18, 2011 at 4:53 pm Link to this comment

Same sex marriage laws have been passed in Massachusetts,
and the most red state in the union, Iowa.  Civil unions are legal
in Connecticut, New Jersey, Vermont,  New Hampshire, Washington,
D.C.  But Connecticut and Vermont are trading in the civil union law
for same-sex marriage laws by the end of this year.

In the countries of Netherlands, France, Iceland and Canada
same-sex marriage is legal.

It has to be decided if all humans have infinite worth.  This is a
value that has been voiced in the positive by most religious faiths. 
Infinite worth extends to all areas and strata of human life.  This
includes political equality, which requires human equality - when one
group of citizens is treated as inferior on a basic human level, then it’s
impossible for them to be truly equal on a political level.  It is
impossible for democracy to exist unless it is based on political
equality, and therefore cannot exist when certain groups of citizens are
denied full human equality. Denying full human equality is what
happens when women, gays, or others of a certain races or religion are
forced to hide or deny themselves.

The issue of this article is about same sex marriage.  It is time for all
people to be treated as the humans they are and thereby treated as
socially equal under the law. It is time to give the same constitutional
guarantees to everyone and its protections to be enjoyed by all
Americans.

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