"I think the President has acknowledged that there are several ways in which a civil union between same-sex couples does not accomplish the protections that marriage would...I think that people of religious beliefs, many, feel that the sacred relationship between a man and a woman is the only threshold for marriage, and I respect that point of view. However, we are living in a society of civil law. We separate church and state. And I don't understand why people who profess equal love to what those of us who are heterosexual are engaged in when we get married, why they aren't allowed to do the same thing. And that's why I introduced the bill."
--New York Governor David Patterson
Hallelujah! Thank you, Gov. Patterson.
ReplyDeleteThe guy is rockin' it, no doubt about it.
ReplyDeleteI'm so lucky to be a New Yorker! He's a great guy - mebbe not the best guv, but hell. He inherited a 50 ton bag of suck when old Elliot got caught.
ReplyDeleteWe may have enough state senator votes to pass - possibly even the repugs!!
Wish us well - we wanna be like Vermont.