… but if you live in New York state and have not called your senator, you are missing the opportunity to make Maggie Gallagher cry, scream and throw things.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo continues to meet with key GOP senators, including Sens. Steve Saland and Andrew Lanza – apparently the most likely to change their vote – and Sen. Kemp Hannon, who is a “no” vote but who has been advising the Republican majority on legal issues relating to religious exemptions from the proposed law.
Cuomo released the following statement:
Our state is closer than ever before to achieving marriage equality for all New Yorkers. Today, you can help make it happen.
Last week, the state Assembly voted to pass marriage equality in New York, affirming their commitment to fairness and equal rights for same-sex couples. Now, it is up to the state Senate to do the same. With Albany’s legislative session coming to a close this week, the time for progress is now.
Contact your state Senator today and urge them to vote yes on marriage equality. With this historic legislation, we can ensure that same-sex couples in New York are finally given the rights and protections they deserve.
If you are in the districts of the following senators, please call and briefly and politely urge your support for the proposed law.
Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has the power to bring the bill up for a vote – 518-455-3171
Republican senators James Alesi of Monroe County – 518 – 455-2015 and Roy McDonald of Saratoga County – 518 – 455-2381 have already announced their support for the bill, and should be told they are doing the right thing.
The staffers of the following Republican senators may be happy to hear a quiet and polite voice in support after all the screeching by the wingnuts:
* Stephen Saland of Poughkeepsie – 518-455-2411
* Andrew Lanza of Staten Island – 518-455-3215
* Mark Grisanti of Buffalo – 518-455-3240
* Greg Ball of Patterson – 518-455-3111
* Kemp Hannon of Garden City – 518-455-2200
We can’t ruin Maggie’s year without you.
[Image – St. John the Baptist – Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530)]
jo6pac
Yep I agree we still seam in sort of court battle in Callie
Brian R.
Wow, Gladys Kravitz sure did get fat.
cinesimon
Maggie didn’t do a funny – she really is a funny all in herself.
Unfortunately, a dangerous funny.
beergoggles
In other gay news, a bunch of gay blogs and the gay/political section of my facebook page is pinging with the story of gay orgs being ‘hijacked’ by AT&T in their pursuit of anti-net-neutrality and pro-T-Mobil acquisition.
Nice summary here: http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/19482/the-twists-and-turns-in-the-story-of-glaads-executive-directors-resignation
Linda Featheringill
John the Baptist? Oh, my, Sarah. My Sunday School teachers didn’t present him that way.
He’s almost enough to make me return to religion. [But not quite.]
ruemara
Wish I still lived in NY, but I think in my district-manhattan or queens, you’ve already got that vote. I know we can do this.
sistermoon
I live in NY, and I’ve gotten 10 robocalls in the past 3 days from NOM.
I don’t think they like the responses they’re receiving…
AliceBlue
I don’t live in NY but I’m hoping for the best.
Gallagher looks like Kathy Bates in Misery.
MonkeyBoy
I really don’t think that outlawing gay marriage will make all those cute gay men want to have sex with obese women.
sfinny
Me too on the robocalls from NOM. Sometimes I pretend to agree just so I can get a person and pester them. Most times now I just hit no at the first question.
I’ve called and e-mailed my senator already, but I think tomorrow requires another call.
PurpleGirl
MY state senator — Michael Gianaris — is a supporter of the bill. I’ll send an e-mail thanking him for his stance.
Since my landline phone is temporarily suspended by Verizon, I’m not being bothered by robo calls. (Thank ghu.)
Mark S.
Gallagher reminds me way too much of a crazy Catholic school teacher I had in 6th grade. All roads led back to abortion and how we must never have sex ever until we were married and birth control was a huge sin. Unsurprisingly, two of her three daughters got pregnant in high school.
Mark S.
In other news, Venus won her first round match at Wimbledon in the complimentary bathrobe provided by her hotel.
I kid because I love.
ETA: If I’d waited ten seconds, I could have put this in the OT.
Linda Featheringill
A lot of people really bitched about that outfit. I don’t see the problem. This woman is an athlete and has really good muscle tone and frankly looks good in that deceptively simple little number.
Arundel
I’m just annoyed to read that the vote has been delayed because churches need some extra hand-holding and reassurances. Despite the fact that it’s been crystal clear from day one that this is purely a civic matter, that no church would ever be obliged to officiate a gay marriage, ever. Like, that was never ever in the cards.
I’m not liking this ominous delay. But if not this year, then next year. And the year after that and the year after that. We will win on this in NY state. Right now it seems o so begrudging and tentative. Heels are dragging. But I have faith that this will get done, as a matter of basic fairness and equality. If Iowa could do it..etc.
Also, fuck Upstate NY. they might as well be from Tennessee politically. Like the Onion’s Atlas said, “New York State has NYC. That’s all there is.” And it’s fucking true. I don’t care about some pastor’s concerns up near Canada. I want to see New York State do the right thing. All we want is equality, civic equality.
And if that’s too much to ask, if anyone reading that looks askance, that gay relationships be given civic recognition and the benefits of marriage equal to heterosexuals, deal. We know it’s a long haul, but we will win.
MAJeff
But, it’s not about churches being required to perform ceremonies anymore. Now, it’s about church-based social service agencies being able to get state contracts without treating all citizens equally. The bigot bishops want catholic charities to be able to get state money without being required to follow civil law.
Roy G
Holy crap, the picture above is being kind – take a look at her pic on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_gallagher
I don’t mean to be a ‘lookist,’ but when you can’t see somebody’s chin, something is not quite right, I mean, besides the politics.
Funny how she’s so pro ‘traditional family’ yet had a child out of wedlock. Do as I say, indeed.
PhoenixRising
Now, now.
Maggie is not an awful person because she could break a mirror. She is ugly on the outside because she is an awful, hypocritical, cruel, lying sack of mercenaries’ nightmares.
So call your state senator and remind him/her that as awe-inspiringly nasty as Maggie and the NOMs can be…they’re only a handful of NY voters. If they had sufficient political power to impose their views, they wouldn’t need flying monkeys to screech in from Princeton.
Ghanima Atreides
wallah….she is a whale.
she must have gained a hundred pounds since i last saw a picture of her.
The wages of evil are radical weight gain?
Citizen_X
Whilst people are picking on the lead bigot in this interview, allow me to point the snideness to the right side of the screen: does that guy really think he’s heterosexual?
d. john
meh.. just read her wiki page
That’s just stupid bloody-mindedness.
So she suggests that if you are gay, you are immoral unless you:
A) Abstain from sex, which for most people, (to use an apropos metaphor) is harder than a priest in a playground.
about those catholic priests… how’s abstinence working out for ya?
B) Engage in the nausea inducing activity of engaging in sex with someone who is the wrong (relative) gender.
Actually I don’t know a lot about B, being ambi, I guess I wouldn’t. But I’m told it’s not pleasant. Maybe about as pleasant as the idea of having teh secks with Mrs. Gallager. ick.
So umm, yeah.. Those are some real options there missy, ya sanctimonious bitch – didn’t she have a kid out of wedlock too?
What an ignorant, simpleminded cretin this woman is.
Jesus wept.
jinxtigr
Fuck these people. I passionately prefer women (just not that woman) but they want to make me go out and suck dick just to piss them off :D
Some of the nicest couples I know are gay men and women. I will NEVER waver on this issue. Just because I’m pervy enough to find the opposite sex strangely compelling doesn’t make me ‘straight’ by this awful woman’s standards. Hell with her.
prufrock
She looks like the Captain from WALL-E.
Chrisd
I would’ve thought the income derived from being a high-level professional homophobe would entitle her to a nice haircut and makeover for her television appearances.
Woodrowfan
I still kind of feel sorry for her. This is a very sad and scared woman. Unfortunately spreading hate and lies is how she deals…
Lisa
What a hateful, miserable creature. I would make fun of her being such a porker. But I am also a porker. Well, since I am on the internets, imagine that I look like Zoe Saldana as I say: She is a fucking fattypigfatty.
themann1086
Organized Religion: Whining about deserving all the benefits of state support without having to shoulder the responsibilities since forever.
Surly Duff
Gallagher: This bill will not protect parents’ rights to what their children are taught in public schools about marriage.
WTF is she babbling about? That makes no sense at all.
I did not realize that specific definitions of marriage were even part of public curriculum. What class is that taught in again? Have most schools added “Constitutional Litigation” or “constitutional Theory” to its currciculum while I wasn’t looking?
Chet
Remember that old George Carlin line about how the people who are militantly anti-abortion are always the people you wouldn’t want to fuck in the first place?
Extend that to sex-hating “social conservatism” generally, and you’ve got Maggie G. as the poster child for that dynamic.