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Two grandmothers wed in New York's first legal gay marriage
Digital Journal ^ | July 24, 2011

Posted on 07/24/2011 4:09:05 PM PDT by NYer

Two women who are grandmothers became the first same-sex couple to legally marry in the state of New York, when they took part in a ceremony just after midnight on Saturday.
Kitty Lambert, 54, and Cheryle Rudd, 53, were joined by family, friends, supporters and tourists as they married at a Niagara Falls park near the Canada-US border. Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster officiated and the water cascade was bright with rainbow-coloured lights.

The New York Times reported that, following 12 tolls of a bell to ring in the day, Dyster, said, “By the power vested in me by the laws of the state of New York, I now pronounce you legally married.”

According to Reuters, Lambert, an art gallery manager, made the blue satin dress she wore. Rudd, who works in a food processing plant, was dressed in a white tuxedo.

“I may be the first person standing here in history, but I’m just an ordinary grandma," The New York Times quoted Lambert as saying just before thew wedding. "This is one of the most incredible moments of my personal life, but it’s also an incredible moment for New York.”

The women have five children and 12 grandchildren between them.
They have been a couple for more than a decade.
"We ended up together because our partners were having an affair with each other," Lambert told the Village Voice. "So we went out to laugh about it and have a drink and commiserate. And we found out it was the most wonderful thing that they cheated with each other, because we were so better suited to each other. It was a God kind of thing.

So we started dating, and instantly we knew this is who we were supposed to be with. Of course, marriage wasn't an option back then, even in California."

She was involved in the founding of, and is president of, OUTspoken for Equality.

"This is pretty cool," Australian visitor Andrew Holder told Reuters following the wedding. "You come to see the falls, you see history."

Photos from Lambert and Rudd's wedding can be seen on the Daily Mail website.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; lesbonaziagenda; lesbonazism; marriage; ssm
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To: NYer

This is just obscene. I’m 52, married to a MAN. I have 8 grandkids. How sick are these women. God Help Our Country. We need a God intervention.


21 posted on 07/24/2011 4:36:57 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
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To: NYer

Two middle-aged woman pretending they’re ‘married’ while everyone goes along with the farce is pathetic. The left knows full well that two guys smooching each other is repulsive to most sane humans so they put middle age females out front to soften the image of ‘same-sex marriage’ The never-ending effort by homosexual advocacy groups to normalize sexual perversion that was once recognized by mental health professionals as (and continues to be, recognized or not) a form of mental illness is gaining ground and nothing good will come of it. STDs are already climbing at a rapid rate within the homosexual ‘population’. Homosexual men account for nearly half of the more than one million people living with HIV in the U.S. (48%, or an estimated 532,000 persons). State legislatures sanctioning ‘same-sex marriage’ are bowing to special-interest group pressure and a misguided sense of ‘fairness’ and a desire for ‘equality’ demanded by ‘gay’ groups. Marrying ‘gay’ grandmas aside, this will not end well.


22 posted on 07/24/2011 4:37:29 PM PDT by Jim Scott ( "Game On!" - Sarah Palin)
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To: I still care

so are these two old ladies independently wealthy? they just forfeited their husbands social security benefits...

weird bunch of messed up folks.


23 posted on 07/24/2011 4:42:27 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: NYer
And we found out it was the most wonderful thing that they cheated with each other, because we were so better suited to each other. It was a God kind of thing.

It's a God kind of thing? Are they sure it wasn't a Satan kind of thing?

24 posted on 07/24/2011 4:44:53 PM PDT by dragonblustar (I love Allen West!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“There’s anecdotal evidence that many “lesbians” with children had those children the old fashioned way, before they decided that they were really lesbian. So it wouldn’t be a stretch to think these 2 had husbands at some point.”

True, but since they specifically said “partners”, it sounds to me like they’ve been divorced for a while and have been living an “alternative lifestyle”.


25 posted on 07/24/2011 4:45:11 PM PDT by Larry - Moe and Curly (Loose lips sink ships.)
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To: television is just wrong

Good question.. I think not because SS is a federal benefit..


26 posted on 07/24/2011 4:47:43 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: television is just wrong

Good question.. I think not because SS is a federal benefit..


27 posted on 07/24/2011 4:47:52 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: NYer

I recall a joke I heard one time - the definition of gross - when you are kissing your grandmother and she slips you the tongue.

However, this story gives a more appropriate definition, and still involves grandmothers!


28 posted on 07/24/2011 4:49:35 PM PDT by utford
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To: NYer

Rom 1:18 ¶ For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

Rom 1:19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed [it] unto them.

Rom 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

Rom 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Rom 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Rom 1:23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

Rom 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

Rom 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

Rom 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

Rom 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;


29 posted on 07/24/2011 4:49:44 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: NYer

Female partners or husbands?


30 posted on 07/24/2011 4:51:47 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert
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To: NYer

Note to self.

Your gag reflex is not strong enough to click on these posts. Please defer.


31 posted on 07/24/2011 5:00:31 PM PDT by onona (I stand with SARAH !)
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To: RnMomof7

when you remarry, you forfeit your benefit as a woman. esp if you take 1/2 of what your husband gets. which means both these women get 0 benefits from SS


32 posted on 07/24/2011 5:02:17 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: NYer

Words fail.


33 posted on 07/24/2011 5:03:59 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: NYer

We formerly had a culture in which marriage was very important and to live together was disgraceful and looked down upon. THEN the “edgy” people got all bent out of shape about the mainstream culture being old-fashioned and uptight and marriage was declared to be “just a piece of paper” after all. THEN getting married became oh so very important and the most meaningful thing that people can do. It can get confusing.

It seems to me that what really matters to these people on the left is just to go against whatever is considered acceptable so that they can capitalize on it and get a lot of attention. If we had said, “Yeah, marriage means little nowadays, so go for it” they probably would have just dropped it as too banal and not causing enough trouble. They will never ever stop pushing the boundaries. They will just move on to the next demand.


34 posted on 07/24/2011 5:05:17 PM PDT by Anima Mundi
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To: KosmicKitty

Certainly the male population isn’t feeling any sense of loss!


35 posted on 07/24/2011 5:12:38 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (When the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn (Pr.29:2))
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To: NYer
Wrong is wrong, immoral is immoral, abnormal is abnormal, and sex perversion is sex perversion.

There is objective truth, and there are immutable facts. Sex perverts marrying each is abnormal, immoral, and wrong. No amount of leftist legislation or judicial activism aimed at destroying America can change the truth or the facts.

Period, end of story.

36 posted on 07/24/2011 5:32:02 PM PDT by twister881
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To: KosmicKitty

BTW, that fellow with the microphone is the Mayor of Niagara Falls, NY and he was just so excited to be able to perform that ceremony. Let’s see how excited he gets when he runs for reelection.


37 posted on 07/24/2011 5:39:44 PM PDT by mc5cents (Noli nothis permittere te terere)
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To: preamble

why do homosexuals have to have the attention
on themselves all the time?

&&&
Because homosexuality is extreme narcissism.


38 posted on 07/24/2011 5:48:05 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin in 2012)
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To: twister881
Wrong is wrong, immoral is immoral, abnormal is abnormal, and sex perversion is sex perversion. There is objective truth, and there are immutable facts. Sex perverts marrying each is abnormal, immoral, and wrong. No amount of leftist legislation or judicial activism aimed at destroying America can change the truth or the facts. Period, end of story.

Not in America circa 2011. What was once considered abnormal and sick is now normal and good and defended by the laws of the land(written and rubber stamped by liberals and weak-kneed Republicans in the Congress and the courts).

Those of us who don't agree are painted as haters, bigots, and dangerous extremists by the left(the media, college professors, the entertainment industry, etc.).

Pontius Pilate while interviewing Jesus, snorted, "What is truth?" The serpent in the garden asked Eve, "Did God say?" What we are seeing today is the steady erosion of truth and the aftermath of that is just beginning to surface in society.

"Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" Isaiah 5:20

39 posted on 07/24/2011 6:03:08 PM PDT by Bed_Zeppelin
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To: Beowulf9

Their husbands were having an affair or was it other girlfriends? “Partner” means so many things these days.


40 posted on 07/24/2011 6:15:41 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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