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So this guy is so fired up about marriage that he wants to invalidate any union, like my Canadian marriage for shiz and giggles. Please. (The Advocate):
Senator Golden, a Republican from Brooklyn, introduced the bill with co-sponsors senator Thomas Libous, who is the deputy Republican majority leader, and senator Ruben Diaz, Sr., a Democrat and outspoken gay rights foe. The legislation has almost no chance of moving, but the main intent of the longtime marriage equality opponent appears to be symbolic.“I am sending the message that there is some normalcy in this great state when it comes to the principled idea that marriage is between a man and a woman,” said Golden, according to the New York Daily News.
Of course it goes without saying that the man has issues.
When former governor David Paterson issued the executive order to recognize same-sex marriages from elsewhere, Golden unsuccessfully tried to challenge the order in court. In 2005, the former police officer turned state senator objected to advertisements for the Showtime series The L Word on bus shelters in his Bay Ridge district.
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So much for change in the GOPGOProud and Log Cabiners really believe their party has changed, since when? If that’s the case, why are none of their elected officials in our state supporting a YES vote on marriage equality? This is all about religion-based bigotry, plain and simple. These haters believe they have a right to deny civil (secular) marriage to same-sex couples. It IS hate, they can deny it all they want. That’s exactly what it is!
It took him 3 years to decide to introduce this bill?Did something happen recently when he realized it was such a very bad thing for the state to be doing–since 2008?
The vote hasn’t happened yet.
I wouldn’t write off every GOPer based on one, Martin Golden.
Democrat Ruben Diaz is one of the biggest opponents of the gay community in New York. That doesn’t mean all Democrats are opposed to gays.
Howard Golden. Ruben Diaz, Sr. and Thomas Libous . . .. . . are apparently the new “Axis of Evil” in New York State. But it’s just yet another attempt at a New York Defense Against Marriage-type act – an effort that will be doomed to fail, since it cannot possibly pass in the Assembly.
This is actually a yawner. Someone had to replace former state senator Serpent (Serphin) Maltese as the prime sponsor of this tripe. And this trio is already well known as purveyors of evil.