:thumbs up: New York

[Asher]

This has to be the least important issue Cuomo could possibly have taken up. New York

[MrFun]

I don't actually care one way or the other what New York does. Just trying to insert a little realism into this jubilation, can't let Slowwie do it by himself.

Fvck you.

I know all about realism with the issue of gay marriage, because I and others in the local gay community have been dealing with a vicious backlash in Iowa brought on by out-of-state bigots.

I don't need jackasses like you to put realism into my face - I have seen some of the backlash.

And don't be such an ******* to tell others that they shouldn't discuss issues just because they don't live in that other state.

[DaShi]

Thumbs up New York, indeed.

[Tupac Shakur]

You are a complete and total ass.

Actually, he's pretty close to the truth, in this case. This is hardly a pressing issue, particularly with the economic and fiscal situation most of the country (including New York) is in.

[giblets]

Yeah, why won't the New York state legislature fix the economy already?

[Tupac Shakur]

That's a good question. An even better question is why they aren't trying to get their fiscal house in order like neighboring New Jersey.

[Boris Godunov]

The budget deficit and impending debt crises in various states, including new york, are somehow less important than your fake civil right? Pull the other one, man.

Improving the education of a generation of children is less important than the right of less than 10% of the population to legally be considered married so they can have a scrap of paper saying so?

So please provide us at what percentage of the population has to be effected by a bill before a legislature should be considering it, and under what precise economic conditions. I guess a chart would be in order. I presume you'd also have protested the 1964 Civil Rights Act under the same reasoning, as no doubt Congress could have passed something else that effected more than ~14% of the population at that time, right?

And if you really believe the rights and benefits of marriage amount to just a "scrap of paper saying so," you're even more of an ignorant ass than I imagined.

[Boris Godunov]

Basic civil rights

This is no more a basic civil right than polygamy. Yeah, I went there.

So you really are that stupid.

Loving v. Virginia established marriage as a fundamental right. If you don't agree with that, then I guess you're a-OK with anti-miscegenation laws.

[Tupac Shakur]

It's amazing to me that people on both the left and the right are so willing to get spun up about relatively unimportant culture war issues while paying comparatively little attention to important economic issues.

[giblets]

Sorry if silly things like "human rights" sometimes distract people from money...

[Tupac Shakur]

Yes, people do love to talk about poorly-supported concepts like "rights" while they climb up on their moral high horse. Good example.

[DaShi]

I agree with Drake. The republicans wasted too much time dithering on this issue.

[Ben Kenobi]

I wonder why they didn't hold a vote on it.

Guess we'll see a redux of Maine.

[Ben Kenobi]

I know all about realism with the issue of gay marriage, because I and others in the local gay community have been dealing with a vicious backlash in Iowa brought on by out-of-state bigots.

So, you cram your ideals down other people's throats, and you are put out when they do the same to you? Why are you surprised.

People are angry that they didn't get a chance to vote on it to have a say on how they will be represented.

The reason it's not put on a ballot, is because you don't really believe in democracy, unless it agrees with you. And you know most people do not support it.

[giblets]

I wonder why they didn't hold a vote on it.

Guess we'll see a redux of Maine.

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