Open Letter to New York Senators
Via a good friend of mine, who picked a great time to start blogging:
Senators Ball and Griffo, Grisanti and Martins, and especially you, Senator Lanza,
I am writing on behalf not just of your LGBT constituents but all of your constituents. The issue of gay marriage is not an issue of gay rights, it is an issue of human rights. Denying the right to marriage to any part of the population is both cruel and unusual. The 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees equal rights for all citizens, and bans on gay marriage are every bit as discriminatory and illegal as anti-black and anti-female laws were not many decades ago.
This is your chance to do the right thing and serve not only the economic interests of our great State but also set a powerful precedent, a statement that New York will not countenance prejudice or discrimination in any form.
A majority of the state and a majority of your constituents are in favor of repealing the ban on gay marriage. Allowing all committed couples to form a committed spiritual bond and allowing them all to enjoy the legal benefits granted by recognition of such a bond is the best possible thing for children and families, and poses no threat to anyone, anywhere. Allowing the religious preferences of a portion of the population to control the opportunities and lives of another segment is backwards and narrow-minded and has no place in a state whose great Statue of Liberty has stood for decades as a symbol of freedom and equality.
You were sent to Albany to serve your constituents. Please, do what you were elected to do and vote to allow gay marriage.
-An Ally for Equality
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October 24th, 2011 at 4.29 pm
I highly agree with this. I hate it that those politicians think that they are completely correct in everything just because they are in power. So what if someone is gay, lesbian, bisexual, etc? That is just the way they were born or saw themselves as being them. The only thing “wrong” about being gay is having to lie to yourself and to everyone about NOT being gay just so that you can fit in. No, that person needs to be his or herself ignore what others say. No other person is in their situation and knows what it is like to go through such things. I appreciate your letter very much. Do not ever hold back your thoughts, express them. That is basically what our first amendment is. Nowadays its, “You have the right to speak your mind freely if I agree with what it is you have to say.” Rubbish. Thank ou for your brave letter.
November 28th, 2011 at 2.57 am
Top most is’nt US-right, Top most ist God’s low.
There should not be homosexual practice.
So there could not be mariage
December 7th, 2011 at 8.24 am
Just Like smoking Bans are………yesssssssssssssssssss
December 16th, 2011 at 11.08 am
Well spoken, 100% agree.
RE: Norbert (Germany)…
I finally got your point after struggling through your post for what I am assuming to be a language barrier verses incompetence. There is a separation of church and state. Not everyone who gets married believes in God. So your argument would lend itself to claim that if gays can’t get married than neither can atheists or agnostics. Which, I am afraid is not the case. It discrimination at the core, and using “God” as an defense has been debated to death. The church does not get to decide if gays are able to marry one another and reap the same benefits (ie on their taxes or applying for loans) that others do.
science > religion
probable theory > fairy tell
December 27th, 2011 at 11.40 pm
Scott, judging by your abundant grammatical errors and broken logic, can I assume that you can only speak English and don’t have a higher education? ; ) It has to be sad to know less than one language. Talk about incompetence! And hey, Norbert, as I, can communicate in at least two languages and if he was as incompetent as you sound then that would make him a less ignorant individual (than, ehem, you).
Like it or not, this country was founded on Judeo-Christian believes and those religions do not allow gay marriage. That’s what Norbert was talking about. I’m in favor of gay civil unions and understand why two individuals would want to be together. What I can’t understand is the intransigent fixation some pro-gay people have on redefining marriage.
Marriage can produce fruits and build societies and countries while gay unions can’t. (Although science is making huge strides to change that) Differentiating between those unions would allow laws to be made to target each group individually for the benefit of our society, instead of addressing all “marriages” the same way, with potentially lopsided consequences. Imagine that in the future science makes possible for a gay couple to have offspring. I’m pretty darn sure that as soon as that new technology arrives, gay activists will start pushing for laws for the government to pay (that means for us, the working, tax-paying class to pay) for the procedures because the gay couples have the “right” to reproduce like their married heterosexual counterparts.
Now, where is that Rainmeter skin I was looking for…
January 23rd, 2012 at 10.46 pm
By some of the arguments above, it seems that all, sorry one of the major matters is the ability to reproduce… Seems a shame, there are so many people that are getting married, reproduce and then give up and go their separate ways.
On the other hand I am privileged to be the godfather of a lovely child that is cared for an nurtured by a lovely gay couple. The child was from a married couple who were too drug f’ked to care for the child. Maybe this is an isolated example, maybe not.
But to sum up before I rave and rant. If you want to make marriage so sacrosanct, make divorce illegal (or at least harder to get) then we will see who is deserving.