It’s time to STAND UP and SPEAK OUT for New York Marriage Equality. Go to http://newyorkequality.com and contact your State Senator - then twitter why you did with hashtag #nyequality
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New Yorkers for Marriage Equality :( (We considered making a joke about how at least NJ is still no better than NY, but we don't think it's too appropriate here. Tell your friends and family across the Hudson to get active and get calling!)
www.nytimes.com
New Jersey’s Senate has defeated a bill to legalize gay marriage, leaving it unlikely the state will have a gay marriage law in the very near future.
New Yorkers for Marriage Equality News from NH: Gay Marriage became legal at the start of the new year! (Our time will come soon enough here in NY.)
www.washingtonpost.com
Gay and lesbian couples rushed to marry in New Hampshire on Friday when at the stroke of midnight it became the fifth U.S. state to allow same-sex marriage, reversing some setbacks for the polarizing national movement.
New Yorkers for Marriage Equality Home for the holidays? Pledge to tell one family member or close friend why you support marriage equality in a "courageous conversation."
www.couragecampaign.org
The most valuable gift you can give this holiday season is the gift of equality. This year, make that gift a "Courageous Conversation" with a friend or a family member to change their mind about marriage equality.
New Yorkers for Marriage Equality Click through and watch this video from Empire State Pride Agenda about our movement, how we are "marching on" and why we won't give up. (This page's moderator is also "Another Straight New Yorker for Marriage Equality.")
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New Yorkers for Marriage Equality DC Marriage Bill passed City Council, next to the Mayor for his signature and then the House for approval...
www.nytimes.com
The Washington, D.C., City Council voted Tuesday to legalize gay marriage in the nation’s capital.
New Yorkers for Marriage Equality NY may be stalling, but the International legal community and even the Holy See (that's not a typo, really) are making big strides for LGBT rights.
At "Breakthrough" Meeting, Holy See "Condemns Criminalization of Homosexual Conduct" | RHRealityChec
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At what advocates have called a "breakthrough meeting," the Holy See delivered a statement that said it: opposes all forms of violence ...
New Yorkers for Marriage Equality Did you go to one of the marriage equality protests this weekend? Planning a rally or an event for marriage equality? Let us know by commenting on this update.
New Yorkers for Marriage Equality
Great read to start the week: "And when I hear people explain that gay people shouldn’t be allowed to
marry because the purpose of marriage throughout history has been to
produce children, and they can’t do that, I envision decades of our
anniversary cards being shredded."
www.nytimes.com
A man looks back on 35 years of marriage and how he and his wife have managed to stay married so long.
New Yorkers for Marriage Equality Live in Rockland County or the southern part of Orange County (towns of Tuxedo and Warwick)? Senator Morahan voted NO on the bill for marriage equality. Protest this Sunday outside of his office
Location:Outside of Sen. Morahan's office
Time:3:00PM Sunday, December 13th
New Yorkers for Marriage Equality For those of you in western Queens (Astoria, Long Island City, Sunnyside, Woodside), protest Senator Onorato's vote on Sunday
Location:QUEENS: in front of Sen. Onorato's office: 28-11 Astoria Blvd, Astoria
Time:3:00PM Sunday, December 13th
New Yorkers for Marriage Equality Marrige Equality NY is running three other protests this weekend. We will be posting them all here. Please RSVP to the events and invite your friends who live in the district. It is most important for these Senators to see their own constituents displeased.
Location:QUEENS - Assemble in front of Make The Road New York (92nd St & Roosevelt Ave.) Jackson Heights)
Time:3:00PM Saturday, December 12th
New Yorkers for Marriage Equality First of many protests to come targeting individual Senators who voted NO on the Marriage Equality Bill.
Location:Carl Kruger's home
Time:11:00AM Sunday, December 13th
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Senator Diaz doesn't recognize the name Frederick Douglass (and we get a mention on Campus Progress): "When Diaz was confronted in the interview with a reference to Frederick
Douglass, civil rights leader from the 19th century, he simply asked,
“Who?” several times."
www.campusprogress.org
Last week, the New York State Senate voted down a bill 38-24 that would have legalized same-sex marriage. The opposition to the bill, made up of eight Democrats and the entire Republican caucus, came as a surprise to those who watched the deliberations. ...
New Yorkers for Marriage Equality So we've been talking about NJ a lot more than NY lately, but we just had to post this story to share
cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com
A day before a historic vote in New Jersey on a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, Bruce Springsteen says gay couples deserve the right to marry.
New Yorkers for Marriage Equality Another NJ Update: Marriage Equality bill made it out of Judiciary, will come to full Senate vote as early as Thursday
www.nj.com
TRENTON -- Legislation to allow same-sex marriage in New Jersey cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee tonight after more than seven hours of emotional debate and testimony, setting the stage for a showdown in the full Senate.
