For those who geek on the legislative process, NY is voting on gay marriage NOW.
Twitter says it passed.
So there is something I can do, besides scream like a woman?
Wesley ,'Chosen'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Cass - Jun 24, 2011 5:35:28 pm PDT #14230 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
amych - Jun 24, 2011 5:35:38 pm PDT #14231 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
BEST PRIDE WEEKEND EVER
Ginger - Jun 24, 2011 5:43:22 pm PDT #14232 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Yay New York!
billytea - Jun 24, 2011 5:45:41 pm PDT #14233 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
33-29!!!! We did it!!!
Hey, with reference to all the complaints from the social conservative right about change being pushed through by 'activist judges': is this the first state to succeed in introducing it through the legislature? Or did Vermont or such like beat them to the punch?
amych - Jun 24, 2011 5:57:33 pm PDT #14234 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Looks like Vermont and New Hampshire were legislative, as was Maine, but then the law was overturned by referendum.
Zenkitty - Jun 24, 2011 6:01:16 pm PDT #14235 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
is this the first state to succeed in introducing it through the legislature?
I don't think so, but I have no data at hand. I think it's the second one.
Maddow pointed out that, this bill having failed the first time, there were both Democrats and Republicans who changed their minds and voted Yea this time, to pass it. One Repub senator made a speech about how he could find no legal justification for refusing to allow same-sex marriage. I caught part of it; he sounded so sincere and impassioned about it, at first I didn't understand what he was saying.
amych - Jun 24, 2011 6:05:52 pm PDT #14236 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
One Repub senator made a speech about how he could find no legal justification for refusing to allow same-sex marriage.
Mark Grisanti, from up in Sophia's part of the state, and one of the undecideds until the end. Also the source of my new tagline for life: "You can be wiser today than you were yesterday, if you do the work". DAMN, dude. That was some fine speech and I want it on YouTube now.
(Apparently, he was also lobbied by Lady Gaga.)
P.M. Marc - Jun 24, 2011 6:10:38 pm PDT #14237 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Hey, New York! Let's make out!
tommyrot - Jun 24, 2011 6:11:21 pm PDT #14238 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yay New York!
(Apparently, he was also lobbied by Lady Gaga.)
Strange times we live in.
Apparently more Republicans are realizing the country is moving fairly fast to acceptance of gay marriage. The Republican wedge issue is turning around and starting to bite them in the ass.
tommyrot - Jun 24, 2011 6:12:31 pm PDT #14239 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Hey, New York! Let's make out!
Gay-making-out would be even better!