My gut is it won't happen this round, I hope I'm wrong. As of Friday, one more vote was needed in the Senate. We'll see. I do believe it will happen in the next year or two.My wife shocked me when she asked if NY passed the bill into law, would I want to move back...
Yup...we win.....we didn't realize we'd have SUCH an emotional reaction...but we literally broke down in tears. It's such an amazing moment for us and all of LGBT brothers and sisters here in NY....and we sincerely hope this decision will start to turn the tide in other parts of the country.
Amen, brother.
Honestly, I didn't think the NYS senate would approve this time around, I've never been so happy to be wrong.
I was asleep when our best friend called us (and DP was locked outside, but that's just coincidence). I don't think I"m going back to sleep anytime soon.
- Fox 5 NY just confirmed!
Now we just have to either keep it OFF the ballot or, if it gets put on the ballot, we have to make sure we mobilize equality-minded NYers to go out to the polls and vote to maintain equality for all New Yorkers....so we don't end up with the same unfortunate nonsense that California and Maine had to deal with with Proposition 8 and Question 1 stripping NYers of their rightful marriage benefits granted by their state legislatures!
I'll have to check the local news outlets online. (we don't have television)My partner and I are in Rochester, NY too!! Equal Grounds was awesome and got some excellent news coverage it looked like. I'm so excited for what the NY senate did tonight. It gives me hope that maybe one day in the not too distant future that we will have the right to marry anywhere in this country.
Yup...we win.....we didn't realize we'd have SUCH an emotional reaction...but we literally broke down in tears. It's such an amazing moment for us and all of LGBT brothers and sisters here in NY....and we sincerely hope this decision will start to turn the tide in other parts of the country.
Now we just have to either keep it OFF the ballot or, if it gets put on the ballot, we have to make sure we mobilize equality-minded NYers to go out to the polls and vote to maintain equality for all New Yorkers....so we don't end up with the same unfortunate nonsense that California and Maine had to deal with with Proposition 8 and Question 1 stripping NYers of their rightful marriage benefits granted by their state legislatures!