I've neglected this blog for a while, but that is how things go. It wasn't like anyone even cared. No matter now because I got something to share.
This is one of the most rational and impassioned speeches on gay marriage rights I have seen. Senator Diane Savino, representing the "fighting" 23rd senate district of New York (aka Statan Island and bit of Brookyln), points out that it is not the responsibility of the state to determine if couples are "fit" to marry. States do not judge the quality of a couple before issuing a certificate. People just show up at city hall, ask for a certificate, and their pretty much done, that is if they are man and woman. Imagine if they did determine fitness, would Las Vegas chapels marry anyone?
She also points out that despite legislation, religious organizations can still choose to determine the standing of a marriage. The catholic church could deny sacrament if they feal the marriage is unholy, or in Judaism, the honour of an alia could be withheld. Nothing would stop that discrimination, but the state does not have the same standing. Discrimination by the government is plain wrong.
Yet, the bill failed in the senate. Shame. More state assemblies will be taking up similar measures soon (New Jersey), and maybe people will come to their senses and see the blatant wrongness being perpetuated against equal citizens of the union. Or shamefully not.
Check out the video, worth your while:
Friday, December 4, 2009
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