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Quinn Pushes For Open Information on Same-Sex Marriage

060910dp.jpg Now that domestic partnerships can come with a ceremony, Council Speaker Christine Quinn is pushing for same-sex couples to get another step closer to marriage. She is backing a plan that would require clerks to inform same-sex couples applying for the partnerships of the five states and countries where they could legally wed. She hopes the plan would inspire lawmakers to legalize same-sex marriage in New York, telling the Daily News, "It think it will speak volumes about the inequality in our state. And the need for our state Senate to follow the lead of other states." So far, just two same-sex couples have taken advantage of the new domestic partnership ceremonies.

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  • rasputinsghost

    step up your trolling game, you suck at it

  • napalm

    How about, fight for equal rights for the innocent minorities who still endure discrimination and brutality from our proven-corrupt police department first. For example.

    Take care of the relevant problems before you try changing the way of nature (man woman and child).

    Adam and Steve? Madam and Eve?

    Sick discussion isn't it?

  • You're a nitwit. We're talking about equal rights for innocent minorities who endure discrimination. What you seem to be missing is that you are one of the bad guys here. You are the guy protesting equal rights. You. You are the problem.

  • napalm

    Besides, ill repeat it again. Whatever lifestyle someone chooses is their business, true indeed. But trying to force gay marriage into law and telling people who don't agree with it, whether its due to religious standards, moral standards, or just common belief in man woman and child, that they are bad, says something about your small mind.

    I'm sure your parents would agree with me.

    I mean, surely you weren't conceived through homosexual activities... But I've been wrong before

  • Guest

    You are an idiot, aren't you? Mordicai may not like dealing with trolls, but I always bring the fire.

    It doesn't matter who disagrees with homosexuality. That's not the debate. It's who disagrees with others having equal rights. Just like the racist whites of the South who wanted segregation of publicly funded schools, you want to rob people of a basic right. I believe this one would fall under 'pursuit of happiness', but I could be wrong.

    Also, no one is trying to force gay marriage into law. They're trying to provide everyone in this country equal rights. That's like saying Martin Luther King, Jr. was trying to force the rights of his people into law, when in reality, their rights were always guaranteed, but the powers that be were holding back because they didn't like the color of his skin.

    You can go back to your drawing board and try to think of a better argument, but just like Wile E. Coyote, you're just going to fail every time.

  • napalm

    Ofcourse I am. Because I don't agree with 2 men in a bed playing sword fight? Riiite. Let me guess, that makes some type of anti gay or homosexual hater. Correct?

    I figured that. Just like if anyone disagrees with Israel's policies, that automatically makes them anti-semite or a hitler fan or something .

    Wait wait, how about this one. I hate this type of weather we're having today, does this make me a rain discriminator or a cloud-nazi? Or a weather bigot?

  • Will...not...be...tricked...into...dealing with...trolls...like...they...are...people...must...resist...

    Listen buddy, you can insist all you want that you think "Whatever lifestyle someone chooses is their business" but the fact that you preface this with "Because I don't agree with 2 men in a bed playing sword fight?" shows that you are lying. Lying McLiarson. & I realize you aren't engaging in a real dialogue & are swimming in the sea of your own bigotry-- I get that. But yeah. Actually yeah, by your own example; if you hate the weather today, then you hate rain. Are you even listening to yourself?

    Yes. You are part of the systemic problem in America. Your intolerance hurts others & ultimately hurts you. & you realize allowing gay people to get married doesn't stop people from having babies? & that people who can't have babies-- like, say they are infertile, or don't want to-- can get married, right? & that...people who aren't married can have babies? Like-- did you get that lesson? See, the only thing denying same sex couples gets you is...well, spite. It represents an economic loss from wedding dollars, a social loss from family stability, & a civic loss as we institutionalize second class citizens on the basic of sexual orientation.

    I know, I know, I should shut up-- reasoned arguments aren't what you want to hear, you've got your dogma all figured out. I'm just a bored on a rainy afternoon. Imma let you get back to your previously scheduled discrimination.

  • FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p8gAVnbCIs&feature=player_embedded

    Christine Quinn praises Bill de Blasio's web site, but says she won't contribute information to it, during an April 30, 2010 press conference at City Hall.

    De Blasio's site is supposed to shed light on members' requets for funding for various groups--in this case the group has already gained the support of at least one member of the Council. It's less appealing to members for exactly that reason--it assigns responsibility of the funding request to the Council member. Of course, it's also voluntary, which means Council members up something shady probably are not going to participate.

    At the end of the video, Quinn was asked if she'll provide her information to de Blasio's site. "No,' she said.

  • FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'
  • She's right. New York dragging its feet on civil rights is going to look embarrassing in the history books.

  • FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

    Don't trust Quinn, it is only an empty gesture.

    Quinn lied at the debate last year on how she lobbied the senate for marriage equality. On how she and Sen. Flannagan discussed their shared Irish heritage and yet He and the others voted NO. there will be no marriage equality as long as Quinn is involved. She is the Al Sharpton of the LGBT movement. Full of hot air that sells out to the highest bidder.

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