Sex In The Public Square - NY Assembly Passes Marriage Equality Bill - Comments

Killed it dead.

JanieBelle — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:26:01 -0700

Spam. Gone. I rule.

(That was a bit cathartic, actually.)

Good News, Bad News

JanieBelle — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:10:18 -0700

Wow. While this is a good news, bad news situation, it's not over yet. And it's progress. While this fight is not yet won or lost, let's not forget that five years ago, even two years ago, this much would have been unthinkable.

Progression is slow, too slow, but it is unrelenting, and we shall overcome. Each and every day that goes by, the religious fascists that long for some dark age theocracy become more marginalized and they lose ground to ever enlightening minds.

The vocal minority of shrill insanity gets louder but smaller, ever more shrill but ever more ridiculed, ever more scoffed at, ever more ignored.

There is yet hope, and more hope than there was yesterday. For that, I am grateful.

NY Assembly Passes Marriage Equality Bill

Elizabeth — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:55:15 -0700

Something new to be proud of during Pride Month!

The New York State Assembly voted to approve marriage equality legislation with bipartisan support. This is a first in the country. When MA legalized marriage for same-sex couples it did so through the courts (though the legislature recently protected that decision) and in CA where marriage equality legislation was passed and then vetoed by the governor, not a single Republican voted for the bill. 85 assembly members voted in favor of the legislation, including four Republicans, while 61 voted against. That's the good news.

The bad news, as noted in this article in The Advocate, is that common wisdom holds that the legislation, which would give same-sex couples the same access to marriage that opposite-sex couples have, will be impossible to pass in the Senate, where there is a very slim Republican majority.