What was I doing?

[da]

Turns out I will remember what I was doing when New York State Senate passed the Marriage Equality bill.

I was skyping with my parents; we had just said our good-byes, agreed it could take a while for them to get to the vote, even if it were a sure thing (but what if two senators fell and broke their noses and had to leave the chambers...) and mom made one last check on New York Times before hanging up, and there it was. And she got to read it from our Ithaca friend Diane M's facebook page as well. 33-29 votes in a Republican Senate. The bill will become law 30 days after Gov. Cuomo signs it.

This one, US State #6 for full marriage protection, is particularly noteworthy to me because I was born in New York State, lived there for my first 25 years; and so many friends in New York will now have legal marriage protection. In fact one friend (Vonn N.) is from the district of Steve Saland, the Republican senator who made a 10pm shift from undecided (without religious protections built in) to supporting it (with religious protections).

Congratulations, New York State! ...44 states to go, plus federal.

How's that go? Slow arc? Yeah, like that.

Comments

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

I think I was sleeping in my bed here in Rome. :-)

This is good news indeed! Sounds like our parents' senators still voted no. *sigh*

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

;)

Yep, both our parents' senators (all three including my parents' old house).

Rover would like to point out that she loved the multicultural festival, particularly the ground-foods, but perhaps she over-did it a bit. Tim and Doug say hi.

[zalena.livejournal.com]

Well, I was here when I found out about it. :)

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

:)

[eeyorerin]

I found out via the NY Senate twitter feed! I felt very 21st century.

I am so glad. I hope my state is the big domino that sets off all the other ones.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

As somebody said, the number of gay couples who can legally marry in their home states have just doubled. So, yeah- glad.

I'm hoping for Federal protections soon too- at least as much as any individual states. Hopefully in Obama's 2nd term!