Posted on 06/27/2011 1:43:17 PM PDT by IbJensen
CNSNews.com) – As homosexuals make plans to legally marry in New York, conservative activists are singling out New York State senators – especially Republicans – for caving in to political pressure.
The Republican-controlled New York Senate voted 33-29 in support of same-sex marriage on Friday, with four Republicans finally joining Democrats to get the stalled bill passed.
This is the first time a Republican-controlled legislative chamber in any state has supported same-sex marriage.
The New York Legislature showed “a profound failure of moral courage,” Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said after the Legislature passed the bill making New York the sixth and largest state to allow same-sex marriage.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, happily signed the bill just before midnight on Friday.
“A clear majority of the people of New York oppose counterfeit 'marriage,' but Gov. Cuomo and anti-family lawmakers have shown that their allegiance is to a small but vocal minority seeking to redefine marriage and family,” Perkins said.
"While it was the Democrats who were pushing this agenda, it is the Republicans in the N.Y. Senate who ultimately allowed this to happen, especially Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos,” Perkins said in a news release. He also singled out as “heroes” several Republican senators who “worked tirelessly” for the families of New York.
"The New York State Legislature's denial of its citizens a chance to vote on the issue of marriage shows it is long overdue that the U.S. Congress begin taking these threats to marriage seriously,” Perkins said. He urged Congress to put same-sex marriage to a vote of the people. Each time it happens in the states, the people reject it, he noted.
With the new law, which takes effect after 30 days, the number of Americans in same-sex marriage states more than doubles, the Associated Press noted. New York's population of 19 million surpasses the combined total of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire and Iowa, plus the District of Columbia, all of which allow homosexuals to legally marry.
Brian Brown, president of the conservative National Organization for Marriage, has pledged at least $2 million in the 2012 elections to make sure Republicans understand that voting for gay marriage has consequences:
“The Republican party has torn up its contract with the voters who trusted them in order to facilitate Andrew Cuomo’s bid to be president of the U.S.,” Brown said in a news release. “Selling out your principles to get elected is wrong. Selling out your principles to get the other guy elected is just plain dumb.”
Brown and other conservatives warn that “gay marriage” has consequences for the next generation, for parents, and for religious people, institutions and small business owners.
“Politicians who campaign one way on marriage, and then vote the other, need to understand: betraying and misleading voters has consequences, too. We are not giving up, we will continue to fight to protect marriage in New York, as we are actively doing in New Hampshire and Iowa.”
There's nothing normal about shoving one's dipstick up another pervert's crankcase.
How does this legislation help the vast majority of taxpayers?
It doesn’t
OK
Pass it.
Next they will pass a law requiring God to make them able to conceive and have babies.
These perverted morons will demand state legislatures pressure clergy to perform marriage ceremonies.
I have to remember the phrase “counterfeit marriage” so I can slip it in whenever someone uses the phrase “marriage equality”.
You could be right about that.
My guess, though, is that we will very soon hear from the "polyamorous" folks.
They are the people who think that more that two people should be allowed to marry.
Come to think of it, doesn't Islam allow a man to marry more than one wife?
If Gov. Cuomo is so happy to have New York be a place where there is "marraige equality", then I am quite sure he will have no problem allowing three, four, or even five people to be "married".
You could be right about that.
My guess, though, is that we will very soon hear from the "polyamorous" folks.
They are the people who think that more that two people should be allowed to marry.
Come to think of it, doesn't Islam allow a man to marry more than one wife?
If Gov. Cuomo is so happy to have New York be a place where there is "marraige equality", then I am quite sure he will have no problem allowing three, four, or even five people to be "married".
Absolutely.
And a boy and his dog.
And a brother and sister.
And a girl and her horses.
And a child and it's "significant other".
And a necrophile and his corpse.
Why should it stop with two queers ?
Well they do say they want to be able to marry whoever they love. Most other people are able to love someone without having sex with them. So....
Homosexuals want to feel good about themselves....but it will never happen no matter what they try.
Placemark.
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