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Momentum

by: Dean Barker

Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 05:43:55 AM EDT
NYT:
There are few new arguments to be made behind closed doors. By now, the Senate's 62 members have heard from every interest group. They know the polls and the politics. They know that New York is lagging behind others - including New Hampshire, where Gov. John Lynch, who had previously defined marriage as strictly between a man and a woman, signed legislation legalizing same-sex marriage on Wednesday.

And if New York's Assembly is any guide, once the matter comes to the floor, these senators will also recognize that same-sex marriage is a basic civil right that can no longer be denied to the citizens of this state.

Now imagine the a map of all of New York and New England (minus RI).  
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What the legislature did and the Governor agreed to (0.00 / 0)
follow was a directive to legitimize marriages, regardless of the gender of the participants in their commitment to mutual support.  

There's a difference between "legal" and "legitimate."  The negative, "illegitimate," provides a good sense of what the issue is.  Illegitimate children used to be a significant category.  Clearly, the categorization did not affect their existence.  Ditto for illegitimate unions.

BTW, it seems the Catholic Church is still sufficiently concerned about regularizing the status of children as evidenced by the issuance of new instructions that priests who marry should be automatically relieved of their priestly designation and the required celibacy in order to facilitate the legitimating of any children they might have.  That children be legitimate seems to be more important than that priests honor their vows.  
Or, perhaps, it's an admission that celibacy is a vow not to marry; not to avoid sexual intercourse.  Perhaps being married to a person is seen as a conflict to being married/committed to the Church.

Semantic panic (0.00 / 0)
Good point. I kept thinking of that, because saying that they were legalizing same-sex marriage made it sound like it was illegal now, which wasn't precisely the case. Thanks for helping get the semantics right, which often gets lost but is important.
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knee-jerk church-state separationist thinking (0.00 / 0)
Now to turn back the "people's veto" in Maine.  I hope that the lessons of the two successful referenda, when civil rights legislation that the legislature had passed was revoked, & the third time, when the forces of darkness failed to revoke the legislation, will be applied effectively.

"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does." Allen Ginsberg
Could Passing Marriage Equality help the NH Real Estate Market ? (4.00 / 2)
I copied this from a post on Facebook...


Am ready to abandon Golden State in search of a truly progressive state! New Hampshire? Who would have thought - weeee!

Truly free staters we are !

"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does." Allen Ginsberg

Are you saying.... (4.00 / 8)
That in California, they are talking about the "New Hampshire Agenda"?

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    
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LOL (4.00 / 1)
Funny lady you.  And thanks for playing such an important role in this cause early on.  You made it much easier to win the first close round on this issue way back in February and March by your clear and strong support of marriage equality.  You rock!  
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Thanks :) (4.00 / 3)
Civil rights, equal rights and equal justice are the basic principles of the Democratic Party - the tent poles of the big tent. We can disagree on nearly everything else, but this is what makes us fundamentally different from Republicans.  

And thanks to you for being the little engine that could.  

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

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Thank you (0.00 / 0)
for distilling what makes a progressive! It's been hard for me to articulate this core in the past, with so many important issues and movements in the big Democratic/progressive tent.
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