New York’s state Assembly approves gay marriage bill<\/a><\/span>
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
By MARC HUMBERT
Associated Press Writer<\/p>\nALBANY, N.Y. (AP) Legislation to legalize same-sex marriage in New York, sponsored by the openly gay brother of entertainer Rosie O’Donnell and supported by Gov. Eliot Spitzer, was approved 85-61 by the state Assembly Tuesday after an often emotional three-hour debate.<\/p>\n
Despite the victory for supporters of the legislation, the bill is not expected to be acted on any time soon in the Republican-led state Senate.<\/p>\n
In opening the Assembly debate, Manhattan Democrat Daniel O’Donnell told his colleagues that civil union, a process permitted in neighboring Vermont, wasn’t good enough.<\/p>\n
“It will not provide equality for people like me,” he said.<\/p>\n
But Assemblyman Brian Kolb, taking note of “the nuns who taught me in grammar school” and his marriage in the Catholic Church, said he could not support the move.<\/p>\n
“I do feel threatened. I do feel harmed,” said the Canandaigua Republican. “It’s a direct challenge to me and how I was brought up.”<\/p>\n
Democrat Dov Hikind, an Orthodox Jew from Brooklyn, warned the measure could lead to other proposals he found objectionable.<\/p>\n
“Maybe we should include incest in the bill and sort of deal with the whole package at one time,” said Hikind.”<\/p>\n
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Democrat Dov Hikind, an Orthodox Jew from Brooklyn, is a Shanda before the Goyim. (Loose translation: Asshole)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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