# way to go NYS senate \[gay marriage\] **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [December 2, 2009, 12:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/way-to-go-nys-senate-gay-marriage/76806 "2009-12-02T12:25:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Geehee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geehee/32/7238_2.png) [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 12:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/way-to-go-nys-senate-gay-marriage/76806/1 "2009-12-02T12:25:51Z")
[http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/880172.html](http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/880172.html) seriously? gays have as much of a right to be miserable as the rest of us. ---
**Author:** ![Clean\_Baldy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/clean_baldy/32/7308_2.png) [@Clean\_Baldy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Clean_Baldy)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 12:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/way-to-go-nys-senate-gay-marriage/76806/2 "2009-12-02T12:28:54Z")
Wow, not even close… And lets not get into a debate. I’m sick of hearing about it… ---
**Author:** ![Motocrossx23](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/motocrossx23/32/5120_2.png) [@Motocrossx23](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Motocrossx23)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 12:29pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/way-to-go-nys-senate-gay-marriage/76806/3 "2009-12-02T12:29:24Z")
Meh, let ppl do what they want. Government should just step out of the way. ---
**Author:** ![Geehee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geehee/32/7238_2.png) [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 12:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/way-to-go-nys-senate-gay-marriage/76806/4 "2009-12-02T12:30:01Z")
> [@Motocrossx23](#): > > Meh, let ppl do what they want. Government should just step out of the way. this. who the fuck cares if two dudes get married? ---
**Author:** ![ShiftDead](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/shiftdead/32/7508_2.png) [@ShiftDead](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ShiftDead)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 12:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/way-to-go-nys-senate-gay-marriage/76806/5 "2009-12-02T12:30:35Z")
Government is a waste. Someone buy me my own country. That place would rock. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/2X/b/b7170c8eddc0b95ece6b88172b2f416a08489a45.png) [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 12:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/way-to-go-nys-senate-gay-marriage/76806/6 "2009-12-02T12:36:05Z")
why does marriage = rights? To me that seems like the core problem. ---
**Author:** ![RedDawg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dfb087/32.png) [@RedDawg](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RedDawg)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 12:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/way-to-go-nys-senate-gay-marriage/76806/7 "2009-12-02T12:36:16Z")
call it by a diff name though, marriage = man + woman. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/2X/b/b7170c8eddc0b95ece6b88172b2f416a08489a45.png) [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 12:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/way-to-go-nys-senate-gay-marriage/76806/8 "2009-12-02T12:38:54Z")
> [@RedDawg](#): > > call it by a diff name though, marriage = man + woman. Exactly. marriage has religious connotations to most people. Most religions currently are incompatible with homosexual people/acts. Its a battle that can’t be won. ---
**Author:** ![Geehee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geehee/32/7238_2.png) [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 12:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/way-to-go-nys-senate-gay-marriage/76806/9 "2009-12-02T12:39:45Z")
> [@RedDawg](#): > > call it by a diff name though, marriage = man + woman. bro, really? how on earth would someone else’s relationship/sexual preference impact you? I really dont get it, to me its a no-brainer. > [@mafdark](#): > > Exactly. marriage has religious connotations to most people. Most religions currently are incompatible with homosexual people/acts. Its a battle that can’t be won. church and state are supposed to separated. ---
**Author:** ![Daddie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/daddie/32/7621_2.png) [@Daddie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Daddie)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 12:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/way-to-go-nys-senate-gay-marriage/76806/10 "2009-12-02T12:40:22Z")
Eh, it’s just fucked up that this country was made because the founding fathers broke free from oppression… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/2X/b/b7170c8eddc0b95ece6b88172b2f416a08489a45.png) [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 12:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/way-to-go-nys-senate-gay-marriage/76806/11 "2009-12-02T12:42:32Z")
> [@Geehee](#): > > church and state are supposed to separated. Agreed. So why is the US government holding debates on how a religious term is to be used? Change the legal term to a union on all unions/marriages and let organized religion have their word back. ---
**Author:** ![RedDawg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dfb087/32.png) [@RedDawg](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RedDawg)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 12:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/way-to-go-nys-senate-gay-marriage/76806/12 "2009-12-02T12:42:47Z")
> [@Geehee](#): > > bro, really? how on earth would someone else’s relationship/sexual preference impact you? I really dont get it, to me its a no-brainer. > > . i couldn’t care less if 2 men or women get married to each other. I just believe it should be defined differently. Give them all the same rights/licenses/whatever, just title it “Lawful Union” or some crap ---
**Author:** ![glitch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/0ea827/32.png) [@glitch](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/glitch)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 12:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/way-to-go-nys-senate-gay-marriage/76806/13 "2009-12-02T12:44:13Z")
So who wants to get hitched? ---
**Author:** ![upstateclipse](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/upstateclipse/32/7348_2.png) [@upstateclipse](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/upstateclipse)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 12:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/way-to-go-nys-senate-gay-marriage/76806/14 "2009-12-02T12:44:47Z")
I had thought after how easily it passed through the assembly it would at least be close in the senate. I am confused how it can be that different of a result. ---
**Author:** ![Geehee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geehee/32/7238_2.png) [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 12:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/way-to-go-nys-senate-gay-marriage/76806/15 "2009-12-02T12:45:59Z")
> [@RedDawg](#): > > i couldn’t care less if 2 men or women get married to each other. I just believe it should be defined differently. Give them all the same rights/licenses/whatever, just title it “Lawful Union” or some crap word. i was reading your post wrong. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 1:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/way-to-go-nys-senate-gay-marriage/76806/16 "2009-12-02T13:35:14Z")
> But Sen. Reuben Diaz, a Bronx Democrat and most outspoken opponent of gay marriage rights, said New Yorkers do not want the definition of marriage expanded to include same sex couples. **“If you put this issue before the voters in a referendum, it would not pass,”** he said on the Senate floor as Duane sat next to him looking up at the Bronx lawmaker. ^THIS. When the will of the people of the state is to allow it, then it should pass. Personally I don’t care, let them be married and lose half their shit in divorce like the rest of us. If a majority of the people in the state are against it then at least the senate is listening to the people that elected them when they voted it down. ---
**Author:** ![walter](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/walter/32/7202_2.png) [@walter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/walter)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 2:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/way-to-go-nys-senate-gay-marriage/76806/17 "2009-12-02T14:01:03Z")
I say we outlaw divorces too. The sanctity of marriage needs to be protected! ---
**Author:** ![Jam](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jam/32/7235_2.png) [@Jam](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jam)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 2:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/way-to-go-nys-senate-gay-marriage/76806/18 "2009-12-02T14:50:57Z")
> [@walter](#): > > I say we outlaw divorces too. The sanctity of marriage needs to be protected! DAMN STRAIGHT! ---
**Author:** ![MOBOOST4U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@MOBOOST4U](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MOBOOST4U)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 2:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/way-to-go-nys-senate-gay-marriage/76806/19 "2009-12-02T14:55:18Z")
Gays should have civil union… straights should have marriage… idk… maybe its my political bias but its just how I feel… ---
**Author:** ![Paulo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/paulo/32/7328_2.png) [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/way-to-go-nys-senate-gay-marriage/76806/20 "2009-12-02T14:58:03Z")
Marriages in general should be illegal. [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/way-to-go-nys-senate-gay-marriage/76806.md?page=2)