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| Crowd outside the historic Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street NYC, June 24th, 2011 [Photo via Joe Jervis] |
WASHINGTON D. C. -- "It's a big, big deal. The country is ready to acknowledge the right of gay couples to marry. For young people, it's a no-brainer. For those of us who are older, a lifetime of experience has taught us that gay Americans are our friends, our neighbors, our relatives, and maybe our children. But change has been thwarted by the structure of our politics, which give disproportionate strength to tiny slivers of voters.
We needed some stalwart lawmakers to break the jam. Who would have imagined we'd find them in Albany?"
I watched the session from start to finish last evening, taking the time to cook supper, make phone calls, and when it came down to the vote, my good friend & fellow Canadian Warren Austin, who was on the speaker phone with me, & I listened as history was made.
As my colleague Dan Collins pointed out, it is a really, really, big deal.
I rejoice for New Yorkers and I rejoice for my fellow LGBTQ folk who now have seen equality moved a couple of centuries past the bronze-age mentality and propaganda of the Yank far-right Christonazis, and as a Gay man, I rejoice for me to have the very essence of my self and humanity validated by the legislative body of the State of New York.
I now have another option, if I so chose, to have my love for my partner registered officially and sanctioned by law. I just hope that the Congress of the United States and the Supreme Court of the United States is paying attention.
To those brave legislators in Albany, I say well done and "brilliant."
Brody Levesque
Correspondent & Editor
BL Freelance News Service LLC
Washington D. C.
Complete coverage of New York's historic same-sex marriage vote from LGBTQNation:
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| Photo By @ComfortablySmug (Twitter) |
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All I can do is congratulate all involved, except maybe those nay-sayers who voted against this; to them I say, "you will see that the world will not end, and that your fears always have been totally unfounded."
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