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The Mayor of New York City did not hold back yesterday is his effort to get New York lawmakers to vote for equality. He gave personal testimony, used family examples and suggested that people voting no to equality would be remembered alongside those who supported slavery!
“The question for every New York state lawmaker is: Do you want to be remembered as a leader on civil rights? Or an obstructionist? On matters of freedom and equality, history has not remembered obstructionists kindly,”
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Bloomberg cited New York as the birthplace of the gay rights movement. That’s not quite right – Denmark for one had an active gay rights group at least 10 years earlier, but he makes a good point. New York is the biggest, the best, the first, the most open … but not for gay marriage.
So buck up New Yorkers. Time to get equal
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