N.Y. Gay Marriage Bill Gains Key Votes
Note: In case you were wondering, I'm anti-gay marriage, but this is big news and not posting it won't make it any less true. Also, I apparently have a history of posting news articles related to homosexual marriage. I'd honestly forgotten.
N.Y. Gay Marriage Bill Gains Key Votes
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and MICHAEL BARBARO
Published: June 24, 2011
ALBANY - Thirty-three state senators have publicly declared they will support legalizing same-sex marriage, all but assuring passage of the measure which will make New York the largest state where gay and lesbian couples can wed.
The Senate took up the measure just before 10 p.m., and the Senate galleries were packed with gay couples in support of the bill and religious opponents of it.
Senator Stephen M. Saland, a Poughkeepsie Republican, became the critical 32nd vote, telling his colleagues in an emotional address that he believed the issue came down to a question of equality.
“I know my vote is a vote of conscience,” he told a hushed chamber. “I am at peace with my vote. It was a struggle. It was an extraordinary deliberation.”
Mark J. Grisanti, a freshman Republican whose Buffalo district is overwhelmingly Democratic and who had also been publicly undecided, joined Mr. Saland in saying he would vote for the bill.
( Read the rest at the New York Times online )
N.Y. Gay Marriage Bill Gains Key Votes
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and MICHAEL BARBARO
Published: June 24, 2011
ALBANY - Thirty-three state senators have publicly declared they will support legalizing same-sex marriage, all but assuring passage of the measure which will make New York the largest state where gay and lesbian couples can wed.
The Senate took up the measure just before 10 p.m., and the Senate galleries were packed with gay couples in support of the bill and religious opponents of it.
Senator Stephen M. Saland, a Poughkeepsie Republican, became the critical 32nd vote, telling his colleagues in an emotional address that he believed the issue came down to a question of equality.
“I know my vote is a vote of conscience,” he told a hushed chamber. “I am at peace with my vote. It was a struggle. It was an extraordinary deliberation.”
Mark J. Grisanti, a freshman Republican whose Buffalo district is overwhelmingly Democratic and who had also been publicly undecided, joined Mr. Saland in saying he would vote for the bill.
( Read the rest at the New York Times online )