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ej510 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 01:42 PM
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Gay Marriage Opponents Sue to Overturn NY Law
Opponents to New York's gay marriage law filed the first lawsuit challenging the measure, an anticipated salvo that came one day after weddings were celebrated around the state.

A representative of New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms and a rabbi said in a lawsuit filed Monday in state court that New York's Senate violated its own procedures and the state's open meetings law when it approved the bill on June 24.

The lawsuit claims that the Senate prevented lawmakers who opposed the bill from speaking and that the Senate didn't follow procedures that require a bill to go through appropriate committees before a full Senate vote.

Opponents of the gay marriage law had promised lawsuits.

"We should have an open and deliberative process," the Rev. Jason McGuire, executive director of New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, told The Associated Press. "If truly the legislation can stand on its own merits then it should be able to withstand being deliberated publicly."

Read more at the link: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=14149955
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William769 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 01:47 PM
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 01:48 PM
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2. What a pack of outrageous, hateful, diabolical people. Just about anything in
this country that might make some people happy is dragged out and tortured to death. I am so F'en fed up with the hatred in this country. Hatred, hatred, hatred, that's most of what we hear in the US anymore. I just love it when the persecuted want to persecute others, what a F'ed up bunch.


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DesertFlower Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 01:48 PM
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3. if you don't believe in gay marriage
don't marry a gay person.
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RevStPatrick Donating Member (564 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 01:50 PM
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4. I see, so "New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms..."
...want to limit people's freedoms?
Makes perfect sense in Upside-Down World.
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