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 N.Y. Senate Votes Against Same-Sex Marriage BillPosted on Dec 2, 2009
New York wasn’t able to go as far as even Iowa, as the New York State Senate shot down a bill Wednesday that would have made same-sex marriage legal in the Empire State. Not one Republican in the Albany chamber supported the bill, which was beaten by a vote of 38 to 24. —KA
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By NYCartist, December 3, 2009 at 6:24 am Link to this comment
Good segment on it today on DemocracyNow:
Report thishttp://www.democracynow.org
By WykydRed, December 3, 2009 at 2:06 am Link to this comment
Man, this country is so stupidly bigoted. Against everyone and everything. Really, it’s not the people who vote. It’s the religious and the politicians they openly buy. And not ONE, on either side is tried, convicted and put in jail for life for perpetrating or committing crimes based on personal paranoia and hatred. It’s time to pull all support from this filthy One-Party system disguised as a two-party system that should be a five or eight party system!
It does NO good to replace a Republican with a Democrat and vicea-versa. You KNOW that, people. Time to vote them all out and put Libertarians in. This country is looked upon as a hellhole of brainless, bigoted Nabilat Christian dictators. So why is anyone paying taxes in this country?.....
Report thisBy Jason, December 2, 2009 at 3:15 pm Link to this comment
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This is terrible news. Although, I am not surprised. Unfortunately, homophobia is alive and well throughout the United States. Americans have Christianity to thank for that. So many of them are propagandized too evidently.
Report thisBy NYCartist, December 2, 2009 at 2:06 pm Link to this comment
Know that there is a Democratic majority in the NY State Senate (as well as the Assembly) and Governor.
People worked very hard to get a Dem. majority in the Senate after years and years. Tom Galisano, a very rich Republican, staged a coup in the NYS Senate and there was the gang of “3” (originally 4), who played with becoming Republicans until they got big political gifts of positions. Really ugly because the casualty of all of this is that nothing got done on the 3 housing bills waiting on the Senate for years: return of homerule to NYC (repeal of Erstadt law), end of “vacancy decontrol” and I forget the other one. The overlap is legislators like openly gay Tom Duane (who has been good on disability issues, I think) who wanted this legislation on gay marriage.
That this piece of legislation has gotten out of committee (the coup took place a day or two before the housing bills were to get out of committee and they sit in committee) is interesting. For info on
Report thisall this mess in re NYS Senate, a good source is MetCouncil on Housing of NYC. (Metropolitan Council on Housing) They’ve had someone up there almost constantly reporting on the NYS Senate mess. http://www.metcouncil.net/
The corporate media has portrayed it as “bungling” or such, but it’s a great way to do nothing -
except some gay bashing. Feh.