Comments on: State Senator Morahan Says No To Gay Marriage http://www.nyacknewsandviews.com/2009/07/morahangaymarriage/ Community news and opinion for Nyack, NY Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:25:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: stevebret http://www.nyacknewsandviews.com/2009/07/morahangaymarriage/comment-page-1/#comment-202 stevebret Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:25:41 +0000 http://www.nyacknewsandviews.com/?p=2589#comment-202 Senator Morahan has attentively listened to our divided community and reached a decision to heal that divide by “accommodating both sides” and voting against marriage equality. Permit me to phrase that another way: Senator Morahan supports “Marriage Inequality.” Too harsh? Let’s see. Senator Morahan’s “separate but equal” rationale is built on this logic: civil unions provide equal rights for same-sex partners. Well, do couples get a choice... marriage license or civil union application? No, it is determined for them. How? Randomly? Day of the week? Eye color? No, someone decides based on a certain condition codified in law—and that condition is gender combination. Would the Senator support civil unions if the criteria were based on race, ethnicity or national origin? If he believes there is no “downside” to civil unions will he trade in his marriage certificate for a civil union decree? I don’t think so. What the Senator won’t admit is that he does understand the inequality of civil unions and his archaic rational is a clumsy effort to walk a fine line of credibility with his constituents. However, on the long march of social evolution toward justice and equality Senator Thomas P. Morahan has stumbled over his own feet and will be left behind in a cloud of dust. —Steve Bretschneider, Nyack Senator Morahan has attentively listened to our divided community and reached a decision to heal that divide by “accommodating both sides” and voting against marriage equality. Permit me to phrase that another way: Senator Morahan supports “Marriage Inequality.”

Too harsh? Let’s see. Senator Morahan’s “separate but equal” rationale is built on this logic: civil unions provide equal rights for same-sex partners. Well, do couples get a choice… marriage license or civil union application? No, it is determined for them. How? Randomly? Day of the week? Eye color? No, someone decides based on a certain condition codified in law—and that condition is gender combination. Would the Senator support civil unions if the criteria were based on race, ethnicity or national origin? If he believes there is no “downside” to civil unions will he trade in his marriage certificate for a civil union decree? I don’t think so.

What the Senator won’t admit is that he does understand the inequality of civil unions and his archaic rational is a clumsy effort to walk a fine line of credibility with his constituents. However, on the long march of social evolution toward justice and equality Senator Thomas P. Morahan has stumbled over his own feet and will be left behind in a cloud of dust.

—Steve Bretschneider, Nyack

]]> By: JC Brotherhood http://www.nyacknewsandviews.com/2009/07/morahangaymarriage/comment-page-1/#comment-196 JC Brotherhood Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:38:08 +0000 http://www.nyacknewsandviews.com/?p=2589#comment-196 Sen. Morahan: Please remember you pledged an oath to uphold our Constitution. This document includes the 14th Amendment which guarantees equal protection under the law. Your vote, based upon your personal feelings puts you at odds with your solemn oath. Shame on you sir. Sen. Morahan:
Please remember you pledged an oath to uphold our Constitution.
This document includes the 14th Amendment which guarantees equal protection under the law.
Your vote, based upon your personal feelings puts you at odds with your solemn oath.
Shame on you sir.

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]]> By: finandted http://www.nyacknewsandviews.com/2009/07/morahangaymarriage/comment-page-1/#comment-186 finandted Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:30:31 +0000 http://www.nyacknewsandviews.com/?p=2589#comment-186 Sen. Morahan, please reconsider your decision and end the discrimination in New York. Please extend equal rights to marry to gay couples. As a partner in a straight marriage I am mystified by other married people who are threatened by gay marriage. It concerns me that my many gay friends who cannot now legally marry in the state in which they work, own property, pay school taxes and vote may well find themselves locked out of a partners hospital room in an emergency. My husband and I wouldn't settle for the second class status of a civil union. Why should any of my gay friends do so? Sen. Morahan, please reconsider your decision and end the discrimination in New York.
Please extend equal rights to marry to gay couples.
As a partner in a straight marriage I am mystified by other married people who are threatened by gay marriage. It concerns me that my many gay friends who cannot now legally marry in the state in which they work, own property, pay school taxes and vote may well find themselves locked out of a partners hospital room in an emergency. My husband and I wouldn’t settle for the second class status of a civil union. Why should any of my gay friends do so?

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