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发帖数: 19713 | 1 Marriage Equality Opponents Fire Salvos in New York
By Julie Bolcer
NOM RALLY RUBEN DIAZ X560 (BOLCER) | ADVOCATE.COM
“We start the battle today,” declared New York state senator Ruben Díaz
Sr., speaking mostly in Spanish to a crowd in Manhattan estimated by one
NYPD officer to number 7,000, although it seemed considerably smaller.
Despite high humidity and 90-plus-degree temperatures, the Democratic
lawmaker and Pentecostal minister from the Bronx was dressed in jeans, a
nylon windbreaker emblazoned with his name and office, and a white cowboy
hat with a black band that read, “I (Heart) Jesus.”
The hat came in handy when the raindrops, which had been threatening all
morning and early afternoon, seemed to finally become palpable the moment D
íaz took the podium at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza just steps from United
Nations headquarters. Less than four miles south at the city clerk’s main
office, and throughout the other four New York City boroughs and all across
the state, hundreds of same-sex couples celebrated the first day of the new
marriage equality law with weddings, but the senator and other rally
organizers expressed a different vision at their own protests, held under
the slogan of “Let the People Vote” in Manhattan, Albany, Rochester, and
Buffalo.
Their intention, in the words of Bishop Joseph Mattera from the Christ
Covenant Coalition and senior pastor of the Resurrection Church, is “to
force politicians to recognize the voice of the people.” He said from the
small stage, “We have put them on notice today, that if they sell their
votes, ‘We will vote you out.’” Attendees waved their thumbs down in
response to symbolize ejection.
The rally, which followed a march up Third Avenue from the Midtown office of
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, vented outrage toward the governor, Mayor Michael
Bloomberg, and even New York archbishop Timothy Dolan, who some claimed led
a weak fight against the bill. Mostly, however, speakers denounced the
Republican state Senate leadership and four members of that conference who
they say betrayed them by providing the decisive votes for the marriage
equality bill last month.
“Our first step is to demonstrate that it was a big mistake to vote for gay
marriage, especially in the Republican Party,” said Maggie Gallagher,
chair of the National Organization for Marriage, in an interview after she
addressed the rally. “Let’s take that first step and see how far we can
take this.” | D**S
发帖数: 24887 | 2 This is the guy with a gay granddaughter?
What a disgrace he is to the whole human race! | m******1
发帖数: 19713 | 3 没错，而且他还是民主党。自己的亲生孙女是GAY他还这么仇恨GAY，还是人吗？
【在 D**S 的大作中提到】
: This is the guy with a gay granddaughter?
: What a disgrace he is to the whole human race!
| g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 4 "Subsequent parts would involve moving the state legislature, including the
solidly Democratic Assembly, to pass a constitutional amendment to overturn
the marriage equality law in two consecutive sessions before it could head
to voters for consideration.Such a plan could not come to fruition until the
2016 ballot, and a series of polls already shows that a majority of New
York voters favor marriage equality, but Gallagher and opponents of the new
law expressed confidence they could win a referendum years from now. Then
again, New York, which has no voter-led initiative process, unlike states
including California, offers them no other choice."
好难啊。比我们争取平权还要坚韧不拔。 |
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