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It's Up To You- New York, New York

by: Louise

Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 10:00:00 AM EST


UPDATE: link to live stream of NY State Senate HERE.

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New York's Legislature is meeting in extraordinary session to confront a $3.2 billion deficit and possibly hold a landmark vote to provide final legislative approval of same-sex marriage.

However, there were no agreements Monday that were certain to be part of Tuesday's session.

The Senate may also take up a bill to legalize same-sex marriage. Even if the issue comes to a vote, it remains unclear whether 35 senators would give it the support needed.

After last week, it would be tremendous news. But the marriage bill's fate is uncertain.


Advocates on both sides of the issue lobbied senators over the weekend, but it was still unclear whether the measure could earn the 32 votes needed for approval. Democrats hold a shaky 32-to-30 majority in the Senate -- and the measure does not have full support across the party line.

Those who favor the bill believe now might be the best time to try and push through the measure, as all 212 seats in the Legislature and the governor's post are up for election in 2010.  

The possible vote will come just a week after Maine narrowly rejected its own version of a same-sex marriage bill.

According to The New York Times, supporters of the bill in Albany believe they can count on about 25 votes for the legislation at this time.


"The stakes are much higher now, following Maine, and it would be an enormous boost to the movement to prevail in New York," said Matt Foreman, a gay rights advocate who has served as the head of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the Empire State Pride Agenda, New York's leading gay rights group told the Times.

But, he added, "if we don't win marriage in New York in this special session, it's going to be a very hard lift next year."

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Called state senator Vince Leibell's office this morning
c'mon people, time to pick up the phones.  http://tools.advomatic.com/24/... has a great little app online that makes the messaging here easy as pie.  

I don't think they are going to touch the issue with a ten foot pole today
or pass it in lame duck in NJ. And maybe it's a good thing too. All we are doing is wasting money and playing into the hands of our opponents with these state level marriage fights.

This fight needs to be relegated to the court system for the longterm.

Drop it and focus on issues with broader support.


Two things:
I see a lot of Prop 8, Question 2-related anxiety, but here's the facts:

Both NY & NJ have no referendum process therefore, should they pass legislative process, that is essentially it. They're done. There are very few practical or pragmatic avenues open to opponents to repeal them.

I agree this will ultimately have to be decided on the national level.
But the state by state strategy has been good. How quickly we forget, just this year we racked up wins in IA, NH, VT, CT and ME.  So these state wins, like MA stand testament to all the conservative hand-wringing that tells us the sky will fall.

Ultimately when we slug it out at a Federal level, the cons will once again, scream the "Sky will fall!" And we can look to the ground in our collection state wins and point to the evidence there is no sky there.


[ Parent ]
It is a dead issue
Ruben Diaz will lead Dems to the republican side of the aisle if they attempt to even put a same sex marriage bill out on the floor.

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

no way, it's delayed
A vote will happen.

[ Parent ]
no way, it's delayed
A vote will happen.

[ Parent ]
I found this online
Cut & paste list of email addresses:

espada@senate.state.ny.us, monserra@senate.state.ny.us, addabbo@senate.state.ny.us, alesi@senate.state.ny.us, aubertin@senate.state.ny.us, bonacic@senate.state.ny.us, breslin@senate.state.ny.us, dilan@senate.state.ny.us, farley@senate.state.ny.us, flanagan@senate.state.ny.us, bfoley@senate.state.ny.us, fuschill@senate.state.ny.us, golden@senate.state.ny.us, griffo@senate.state.ny.us, hassellt@senate.state.ny.us, hannon@senate.state.ny.us, johnson@senate.state.ny.us, jdklein@senate.state.ny.us, jdefranc@senate.state.ny.us, kruger@senate.state.ny.us, lkrueger@senate.state.ny.us, lanza@senate.state.ny.us, larkin@senate.state.ny.us, lavalle@senate.state.ny.us, little@senate.state.ny.us, leibell@senate.state.ny.us, senator@senatorlibous.com, montgome@senate.state.ny.us, maziarz@senate.state.ny.us, marcelli@senate.state.ny.us, morahan@senate.state.ny.us, nozzolio@senate.state.ny.us, oppenhei@senate.state.ny.us, onorato@senate.state.ny.us, ojohnson@senate.state.ny.us, padavan@senate.state.ny.us, parker@senate.state.ny.us, perkins@senate.state.ny.us, ranz@senate.state.ny.us, robach@senate.state.ny.us, stachows@senate.state.ny.us, scousins@senate.state.ny.us, serrano@senate.state.ny.us, masmith@senate.state.ny.us, squadron@senate.state.ny.us, seward@senate.state.ny.us, saland@senate.state.ny.us, savino@senate.state.ny.us, sampson@senate.state.ny.us, schneide@senate.state.ny.us, shuntley@senate.state.ny.us, skelos@senate.state.ny.us, stavisky@senate.state.ny.us, athompso@senate.state.ny.us, valesky@senate.state.ny.us, volker@senate.state.ny.us, winner@senate.state.ny.us, cyoung@senate.state.ny.us


I am not terribly disappointed
Because the Gender Expression Non Discrimination Act (GENDA) is STILL being ignored by both the politicians and the Empire State Pride Agenda (ESPA) in favor of marriage legislation.  When Gov Paterson introduced the marriage equality legislation last April he effectively doomed GENDA.  While ESPA did include GENDA and the NY bullying bills (Dignity for All Students Act) in its lobbying day at the end of April their main efforts for most of the year have been almost exclusive to marriage equality.  I dare say, the main impetus behind the coup that the Republicans inflicted upon the NY Senate in June was largely fueled by opposition to the marriage bill.  Of course, all other unfinished legislation was thus thrown under the bus too, along with GENDA and DASA.

Until April, the consensus in NY was that marriage quality would be a dead issue for at least this year and that non discrimination and bullying laws that included GLBT kids would be in the forefront.  Mr Paterson and the rest of the political system in NY once again, however, have decided that trans people and BLTG kids aren't important enough to even consider when some political hay could be made pandering to the GLB and progressive groups with legislation that was considered unpassable for this legislative season.

Like in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, the GLB community in NY apparently still thinks marriage equality is worth throwing gender variant people under the bus.  This is on top of the past treachery from 2002 when they supported non-inclusive non discrimination law which then passed.  At the time, the trans community was told to wait.  To be patient until they could come back to us.  When the hell is that going to be?  I daresay, unless some fundamental changes are made in both ESPA and the state government, the answer to that is never.


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