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The anger over Proposition 8 is not ending: There are number of protests all over the country. Prop 8 is the California ballot proposition that bans gay marriage; it was passed last week, but there are lawsuits challenging its constitutionality. You can find them here--in NY, there are gatherings in NYC, Albany, Rochester, Syracuse, White Plains, Ithaca, Buffalo, Utica and Hofstra. While NYC had a Prop 8 protest on Wednesday night outside the Manhattan Morman Temple, tomorrow's will take place at City Hall at 1:30 p.m. till 3:30 p.m. (more details).
Prop 8 Protest at City Hall Tomorrow
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I'm all for gay marriage and protests, but can someone explain why are they planning to protest in front of NY city hall?
Good grief. I'm gay, and my partner and I got a civil union in NYC a long time ago. I wish we had some sort of full benefit civil union that was the full legal equivalent of marriage, no matter what it was called, but this protest stuff all over the country is not helping the cause. Give it a rest guys/gals and try letting everyone know we are normal people through good works and getting involved in the community. All this protesting is just making people think bad of all of us, even those of us not involved in it.
Must be gay mardi gras week in NYC. Party time!
I'm so glad Obama turned out to be such a uniter.
Don't worry.. Obama will fix everything (Taxes, Rent, Car payments, The gay wedding thing, Wall street FAT CATS, Make congress work for a change, Make the poor richer, Give balance to the force, Make you feel better about yourself?) Protesting is waste of resources & a traffic problem.
Obama is the answer, Just give it time.
Why is the double gaited community protesting in NYC about a vote that took place in California? Thank god cult leader Obama is AGAINST gay marriage.
In front of City Hall? THERIOUTHLY? What is that supposed to prove? Do these silly homos* not realize that you typically protest in front of the place that is opposing whatever you're trying to defend?
*Not all homos are thilly. I know this.
@2 -- The location's a little odd -- but I think the idea is that they're protesting AT City Hall, not AGAINST City Hall.
"We're normal people" has been the approach for years, but I'm not sure that protesting Prop 8 harms it. After all, the Right is going to demonize gays whether they march or not. More importantly, anger at Prop 8 IS normal. If you took away straight people's right to marry each other, we wouldn't sit around -- we'd protest. We might riot. Hell, if you outlawed straight marriage, we might take up arms... Why should we think gay people shouldn't at least stand up and complain?
Oh, sure, there's a stigma against protesting in general, and I blame that on the Left. There are too many rainbow-hot-pants-wearing, anarchist-flag-waving, Euro-trash nutjobs who come out to protest every meeting of the G-8...it's given the very act of protesting a bad reputation.
But assembling to petition for civil rights is not the same as some idiot college kids getting together with their "Green Party Until Graduation" friends to have a rave / riot. The crowd at King's "I Have a Dream" speech can't really be compared to the hippie kids whose idea of "protest" is to smoke a ton of grass and then play hackie-sack next to the riot police. It's really not the same thing.
Would somebody please direct these lunatics to the Iranian consulate so they can protest Iran's official policy of putting homosexuals to death. Oh wait, that doesn't serve the socialist agenda, nevermind.
Now Heilsja, that is not a nice term ("HOMO").. Obama would not want you to use harsh terms like that..Try to soften it to something like "The GAYS" or "The Happy People" this will make Obama happy.
I have been just informed via a knock on my door that my previous post using the word ("HOMO") is not acceptable to the new agenda of the president elect and will have to go with the nice men in black for a debriefing on social communication in the new era of Obama, please wish me luck and tell my family i love them ........
If anyone is unsure about the need for these protests, just read these comments.
#11 Indeed. Gay people NEVER mock straight people.
#12, once again, THERIOUTHLY?
When I was in Los Angeles, I was with an old friend I knew from a few years previously and when her and her lesbian pals were talking about sex, they were making fun of how I could get pregnant and have to get an abortion while they were perfectly safe and loads of other irrational crap.
The best part is that all these religious zealots die and...black. Nothing. Total nothingness.
When do they protest in front of black churches?
Wow - where do I begin? Let's start with the idea of protest itself. Whose cause does protest not advance? Did it not advance the cause of the American Colonial Revolutionaries? Did it not advance the cause against slavery? Did it not advance the cause of women gaining the right to vote? Did it not advance the cause of blacks gaining their civil rights? This country was founded on the twin pillars of the right to protest and idea that peaceful protest has the capacity to cause great change.
What is being protested? Only to have the same rights as everyone else. No more. No less. This isn't about forcing religious institutions to marry same sex couples - this is about granting everyone the same civil rights. When a couple marries, they are granted literally hundreds of rights by the state and federal governments. Gays only want those same rights to declare their committed relationships and be recognized by the state.
Let's go on... the protest tomorrow is one of several 100 protests around the country - every single state will have AT LEAST 2 protests at the same time (1:30 EST, 10:30PST), and most of the protests will be city halls, because they are most often the most visible places in town, as well as the symbol of government. Of course NY City Hall is not the object of the protest (especially on a Saturday), but with 100's of protests across the nation this is part of building national momentum for a cause that is just, a cause that is right, and a cause that is overdue.
I supported equal civil unions, but after that attacks against the Mormon church and the intolerable remarks, I can't stand gays. I won't never lift a finger to support any of your causes in the future, not even equal civil unions.
The Mormon retreat on Proposition 8 is very revealing! The Mormon vote may indeed have only been 2% of California voters…and Hitler and Osama Bin Laden are only 2 people in the world’s history – hate has a monumental impact!
Mormon’s and Catholic’s – how does it feel to be part of a persecuted minority?
#12: Oh, I'm sorry, you have your feeling hurt sometimes. That's much worse than not being an equal citizen.
I have to protest, the protest, and the Mormons, aaaannnnnnnnddddd prop 8 and prop Joe, what up bird!!
@#17, I doubt the gays will miss your finger.
#16 "What is being protested? Only to have the same rights as everyone else. No more. No less."
They do have the same rights as everyone else.
They chose not to exercize these rights because they don't happen to suit their particular lifestyle choice.
They're protesting because they've been inconvenienced not because they've been denied rights.
#it is not about equality, it is about forcing their beliefs unto us. Since when did a Gay person have to sit in the back of the bus or have to use separate facilities? What a joke, and that is why the blacks would skin the asses raw for playing the civil card. Second class citizens? they have more privilege than straight, this whole city has programs for gays and HIV infected people.
See the article in the time re: the roll of the Mormon church in prop 8? Gives you some idea of why people are directing their energy there- not that you'll understand but here ya go:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/15/us/politics/15marriage.html?hp
Ides, please stop being a bigot. Thanks.
Where are all these bigots, weirdos and outright homophobes coming from? Who knew this was the Gothamist readership?
your blindness Gregoire is that you think this is a slamdunk, it is not.
Who knew that Gothamist had so many bigots, hatemonger, vandals, heterophobes, and followers of Harry Hay, the pedophile, NAMBLA founder of the National Gay Liberation movement.