[url]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-york-senate-rejects-samesex-marriage-bill-1833859.html[/url]
[quote]Opponents of gay marriage were celebrating yesterday after New York State's senate rejected a bill that would have allowed same-sex marriage, saying it was a huge victory that could influence votes elsewhere.
New York's bill was defeated 38-24 on Wednesday in the assembly, which is led by liberal New York City Democrats who hold a single-seat majority. It was a stunning result given that this was the last hurdle for the passage of the measure, which had been strongly pushed by the state's Democratic Governor David Paterson.
"It's just a huge win," said Maggie Gallagher, president of the National Organisation for Marriage, a nonprofit organisation whose stated mission is to protect same-sex marriage. "It's going to help cement defeat for gay marriage in New Jersey, and I think it's going to get a whole bunch of politicians in New Hampshire who voted for gay marriage this year pretty nervous when they come up for election." She said the heavy defeat reflected faulty tactics by the bill's supporters, who she said hurt their cause by equating opponents of gay marriage to slave owners and Nazis.
"The gay marriage movement usually looks very smart," she said. "Now it looks flat-footed."
Richard Socarides, former President Bill Clinton's senior adviser on gay rights issues, called New York "clearly the biggest prize in this effort". "Not only will it affect a lot of people because New York is a big state," he said, "but symbolically New York is the country's leader in finance, the arts and culture. It's a bellwether for the country."]
So far this year, New Jersey failed to schedule long-expected votes on bills to legalise gay marriage, Maine voters rejected a measure and California voters rescinded their law. Supporters of same-sex marriage, however, point to Vermont and New Hampshire, where state assemblies adopted gay marriage bills this year. The city council in Washington DC is expected to legalise gay marriage next month. ap[/quote]
Fuck this country. I know I'm supposed to put more commentary there than that, but what else can I say? Fuck this New York and fuck this country.
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[editline]07:37AM[/editline]
fuck this country fuck this country fuck this country
What the fuck?
[editline]03:38PM[/editline]
Conservative bastards.
Fuck those assholes.
The intolerance frightens me, honestly. Are these people seriously fucking stupid? You americans with some sense left (non-conservatives), how do you manage?
[QUOTE=demoguy08;18728571]The intolerance frightens me, honestly. Are these people seriously fucking stupid? You americans with some sense left (non-conservatives), how do you manage?[/QUOTE]
by fantasizing about blowing things up
I'm not gay, I got no problems with it.
:suicide:
How exactly can you disagree to my post?
Senator's public image > gay rights
[QUOTE=johanz;18728576]I'm not gay, I got no problems with it.[/QUOTE]
congratulations on being human filth
Maybe you'd change your mind if you ever had a gay friend who was seriously hurt by all of this anti-homosexual propaganda, but let's not kid ourselves: you don't have any friends apart from the fellow nerds you couple together with during lunch in high school, talking about all sorts of things, but nothing important, because each one of you is a hollow husk who fills their empty soul with video games and internet memes.
Oh, you want a real friend you can genuinely talk to, but every time a potential one nears, you look inside yourself, desperately clawing for some modicum of humanity to bring forward, but you find nothing, nothing at all.
if everyone was like him, no wonder this world was going to shit
oh wait, it already is
Ahahahaha what kind of idiot is mass rating us disagree?
show yourself you goddamned trash
God damn it. :argh:
I guess this goes to show that a politician's party has little to do with his/her view on gay rights.
Lol, there's always Iowa :D
[QUOTE=SigmaLambda;18728637]Ahahahaha what kind of idiot is mass rating us disagree?
show yourself you goddamned trash[/QUOTE]
rage over an 16x16 pixel image!
[QUOTE=rexxaH;18728674]rage over an 16x16 pixel image![/QUOTE]
it's the sentiment you dummy
There allowed to get married... Under the "Universal Declaration of Human rights"
[quote]Article 16
1. Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
2. Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
3. The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.[/quote]
[QUOTE=Best4bond;18728709]There allowed to get married... Under the "Universal Declaration of Human rights"[/QUOTE]
lol you think american politicians care about human rights
[QUOTE=SigmaLambda;18728716]lol you think american politicians care about human rights[/QUOTE]
They should knowing there past President signed it...
[quote]Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, [b]keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms[/b] and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of [b]Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.[/b][/quote]
I agree with them rejecting it.
[QUOTE=Dr Pepper;18728746]I agree with them rejecting it.[/QUOTE]
hm maybe you should elaborate why so I can tell you exactly why you are wrong and specify in which ways you can go fuck yourself
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I don't care. Cus' i live in Finland. There is like 5 gay people here.
[QUOTE=booster;18728757]I don't care. Cus' i live in Finland. There is like 5 gay people here.[/QUOTE]
if you don't care, then why did you post in this thread?
hmm maybe it's because you're a shitty poster?
[QUOTE=SigmaLambda;18728544][url]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-york-senate-rejects-samesex-marriage-bill-1833859.html[/url]
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The glitter really helps express your anger!
[QUOTE=Acezorz;18728780]The glitter really helps express your anger![/QUOTE]
burn america to the ground
if I have to be in the country as it burns, so be it
[QUOTE=SigmaLambda;18728768]if you don't care, then why did you post in this thread?
hmm maybe it's because you're a shitty poster?[/QUOTE]
And you are progay eh?
[QUOTE=Best4bond;18728745]They should knowing there past President signed it...[/QUOTE]
They also signed the UN charter and they like to break that a lot.
[editline]04:19PM[/editline]
[QUOTE=johanz;18728576]I'm not gay, I got no problems with it.[/QUOTE]
Objectivism in the early stages.
I say skip a step and kill yourself.
[QUOTE=johanz;18728793]And you are progay eh?[/QUOTE]
Whats wrong with that. :colbert:
[QUOTE=Kyle902;18728831]Whats wrong with that. :colbert:[/QUOTE]
He's acting like an idiot.
[editline]03:21PM[/editline]
[QUOTE=Trotsky;18728821]
Objectivism in the early stages.
I say skip a step and kill yourself.[/QUOTE]
Yeah sure.
[QUOTE=johanz;18728838]He's acting like an idiot.
[editline]03:21PM[/editline]
Yeah sure.[/QUOTE]
Your the one acting like a fool here.
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