Defying The Church In The Name Of Equality

So, it was only yesterday that everyone in New York Sate became equal; all New Yorkers, even the gay ones, are allowed to marry the person they love, legally, and rightfully. That's a good day, dontcha think?

Of course, part of the equality bill is that churches will not be forced to perform same-sex marriages, nor can they be sued for refusing to do so. And, I like that idea, too. If we don't want the Church affecting the State, we should not allow the State to affect the Church. It's that whole Separation thing.

But at one church, the First Presbyterian Church of Glen Cove, Reverend Elizabeth Simpson sees several same-sex couples in her congregation, and she sees how much they love one another, and she's going to do something about it, even if it gets her defrocked.

Next March, Reverend Simpson will perform the marriage ceremony for one of those gay couples, and she'll do it in the church, saying, “I will make myself vulnerable to accusations or indictments, so to speak, from within the Presbytery, [but my] feeling is since just recently the church changed its mind about ordaining gays and lesbian people that I think eventually that [they will] change their sense about what marriage is.”

And while she may not yet have the backing of the church hierarchy, she has the complete backing of her own church. In fact, she says it isn't even an issue among her congregation. The feeling is Of course they can get married. Why not?

Why not indeed.  It isn't a big deal, really, except to the two people involved, who've made a commitment to spend their lives together, become a family, and maybe raise a family, and to have the whole world, or maybe just the stat of New York, or maybe just their congregation, share in that feeling.

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New York.....New York! Welcome To Equality!

He's A Politician....Did We Really Expect He Would Keep His Word?

The former mayor's a drag.

Remember when Rudy Giuliani, in the throes of his dissolving marriage, fled Gracie Mansion to avoid his wife, Donna Hanover, and crashed with a couple of his Best Gay Pals?



Well, while he was sponging off The Gays--Howard Koeppel and his partner, Mark Hsiao, left--they asked if he would marry them, and Rudy, ever the politico, said, 'Howard, I don't ever do anything that's not legal. If it becomes legal in New York, you'll be one of the first ones I would marry.'

Well, cut to now, and Howard and Mark are asking if their good friend, ex-mayor and wannabe-president, Rudy Giuliani, would perform the marriage ceremony and he's suddenly not taking their calls.

Koeppel and Hsiao did get married in Connecticut in 2009, but they had hoped to repeat the ceremony in their home state, and hoped that Giuliani would officiate, since Mayors of New York City retain the right to conduct weddings even after leaving office.

And Rudy said he would....and now he won't.
How Republican of him.

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Way To Go NEW YORK!!!!!!!!

I, Too, Have No Words......

Open Mouth....Insert Foot....Lose Endorsement

I'm sure you all remember Chris Lee, the New York Congressman, and Republican, of course, who resigned after getting caught in an Internet flirtation with a woman who wasn't his wife.

Well, Jack Davis wanted to fill that seat; and then he opened his mouth.

Davis shocked local GOP leaders when, during an interview, he suggested Hispanic farmworkers be deported, and that the government then bus inner4 city African-Americans out to the farms of New York State to pick crops,.

Oh, but he did. And before he made those asinine comments, he was the frontrunner for the GOP endorsement. Then came the news that he made similar statements back in 2008, when he said: "We have a huge unemployment problem with black youth in our cities. Put them on buses, take them out there [to the farms] and pay them a decent wage; they will work."

The GOP obviously has thrown their support behind another candidate, Assemblywoman Jane Corwin.

Davis spokesman W. Curtis Ellis acknowledged that Davis' comments "may not be politically correct and ... may not be racially correct," but when Davis was asked about his comments, he simply said, "It's politics."

Um, no it's not. It's racism.

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