America going broke... well we are broke and in unbelievable debt..too much to pay off..

SOOOO we will show "progress" with gay marriage approved by the State... shows they are really working for you..
By the way high unemployment also.. but it too is low priority to gas marriage...

Barry,

So sad that you feel that way in this day and age! I suggest you start looking for another place to live as NJ "WILL" someday become a place where equality lives. Women still fight for equal pay, Blacks still fight to see past a skin color, we are all fighting for the common cause "EQUALITY"! I suggest we all come together as one team and fight this battle together as I cant imagine being a black gay woman thats like 3 strikes..... Peace, Love and eternal happiness to everyone, even those who feel they are born superior because of race, religion, sexual orientation or any other reason!!!

I know a few gay couples who have children. They are all growing up "normal", they don't have any notions of having to be gay themselves - it isn't a choice anyway - one is born that way. Gay parents aren't indoctrinating their children or anyone else's children. The sanctity of your marriage is still as good as you make it, just as the sanctity of their marriages will be for them.
If you have religious objections, fine, that's your perogative. You don't have to be gay! You don't have to marry a gay person! You don't have to see gay marriages in your church as they will be exempt.
My God doesn't deny people who are different, their rights to be in a loving, committed relationship, with children they love and with rights to equality as we all have.

millissa......you seem to forget being black is normal !

You people on here preaching about marriage being for a man and woman...Get real! Have you seen the divorce rates amongst hetero couples? You can't sit and say you believe so strongly in marriage and then turn around and get divorced, re-married, cheat on your spouse, blah, blah and then try to preach about God saying such and such about marriage. If you want to be a real activist and fight for YOUR ways of doing things, how about all you hetero hillbillies out there actually STAY married for a while? Raise the statistic up. PROVE that you believe in marriage under God!

In the ever changing Acronym..LGBT, What do BI-sexuals and Transexuals have to do with Marriage. MON-WED-FRI, live with Bubba.. TUE-THURS-SAT, live with LUCY, Rest on SUN. As the Gay population states, You are born the way you are! The last 2 letters in this Acronym have nothing to do with marriage just the act of SEX. It's HYPOCRISY.

What the gay people are asking for is not that big of a deal. They want to be able to have a law to protect their families. They want to be able to KNOW that if they die, they can share their pensions, social security, etc...with their partner.You don't have to recognize a damn thing, if you don't like it, don't worry about it. Yes you should "live and let live" Welcome to 2011! This is the way the future of this country is headed, like it or not. No person should be a "second class" citizen. We should all have equal access to the same benefits under the law. So get off your high-horse and get with the reality of the days. Don't worry that your poor little children will have to hear about gay people and they are going to catch the gay disease. Grow up moron. It is not something that you learn, it is not something you decide, it is not something you choose. Sorry to burst your bubble. I feel sorry for all of you preaching fools out there. I GARAUNTEE that every one of you knows somebody who is gay! You may not know they are, but trust me, you know someone personally. By the sounds of your ridiculous hatred, that person likely could never let it be know to you out of fear that you would judge them and hate them (was'nt there a passage or two about those subjects in your bible). This person probably became drug addicted, or worse committed suicide, or even worse taught to be a backward hatefilled idiot like yourself. In the future there will be no room for that way of thinking.

How queer is this vote? Seriously. Why would elected officials in NY decide to pass a gay marriage law that even the wackos in California rejected? It makes zero sense. I predict that this will be overturned by the people of New York in an election referendum.

Millissa
what you seem to forget is whils divorce can be a sad ,unpleasant exprience.........its what can happen to normal people.

Everyone Millissa is gay and that is why she or he is being so defensive. That is why she/he is trying to find ANYTHING that she/he can use to back her twisted reasoning. She is so low that she or he (who knows?) is using African Americans which are NORMAL and Immigrant families which are NORMAL who are going to America to try to find a better life in her perverted reasoning. How can anyone be SO CONVULUTED in THE MIND? Just take a Good look America at your Super Star aka "LADY GAGA" she is bisexual and have a very sick twisted mind. Just that alone should show any STABLE minded adult the sick twisted mind that they have.

Proud to be a NY resident today - looking forward to the day all states pass similar legislation.
BTW Those quoting Bible should spend more time studying - I study a lot of Bible, in the original Hebrew, and that is not what it says.
Once had a situation at work - a woman I had just hired, who had been in a 25 year committed relationship with another woman, with whom she had raised two children, went to fill out a W-4 form. Our bookkeeper asked her whether she was married or single and she had to say "single." That was the day that I realized we had to change things in our government. Why shouldn't her tax basis be the same as mine, as I am in a similar committed relationship (male/female), raising children, and had been with my spouse the same number of years. Let alone other things I took for granted because I was married - now they can have all the same rights of heterogeneous couples! Yeah NY!

The New Testament Teaches against sodomy.
Romans 1:24-32 "Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them."

sad day for america , makes being married a joke

vince. God says to cry loud and spare not,lift up your voice like a trumpet! God and saved christians in this country do not hate gays or lesbians,but the sin of practicing homosexuality.God still loves you,and he wants to save you and deliver you from these spirits/or demons of abomination against GODS word...Sin is what is destroying america,like it destroyed sodom and gomorrah.If americans would turn back to Jesus, and serve the true and living GOD,then HE will forgive us of our sins as a nation and then HE would heal our land,{our economy}. thanks and again,God loves us and doesnt want us to be lost, and go to HELL...

Thanks for the scriptures! Keep them coming, I am almost cured!! Yay for me! I might actually wake up tomorrow and be able to choose to be like you!! Yay! By the way, you can keep your God, my God does not issue death threats!!

Just let people live their lives in peace. Yes we have other pressing issues in the USA, but I agree with Melissa. People have the right to raise their families and have the security under the law while doing so. Of course marriage SHOULD be between a man and a women in a perfect world. But people should follow the ten commandments in a perfect world too. There are alot worse things in this world then people of the same sex loving each other and trying to make a life together. Let god sort out the rest.

This is a sad day for America! It's sad that a handful of ellite polititians can decide what's best and proper for us all.

A. G.--I couldn't agree with you more. I posted some references taken from secular sources (not the Holy
Bible) about racism, homosexuality, and a few other topics--and all but one has been deleted. It seems that
the folks posting here do not care about anything except advancing this agenda.
Kudos to you for your comment.

Lydia Part 1: What do Americans believe -- "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all humankind is created equal and endowed with certain unalienable rights ..." Today we have challenged the hypocrisy that would deny any one the basic (unalienable) rights that all taxpayers enjoy in this country. I am straight, spiritual -- and I still believe in JUSTICE for all – I believe in the “human” right of same sex couples to love and to marry! I applaud the work of senators of New York that crossed party lines with their vote, "to do the right thing." God will bless the risk you took in your political careers. We all have to take a stand as Americans, and do the right thing, so that all Americans experience liberty and justice that we declare is the culture of this country -- so that without hypocrisy, we lead the world to "accept" & “respect” democracy. Instead of America – the land of the free -- seven other countries are leading the world in the same-sex debate.

Lydia Part 2: There are religious folk on “both” sides of the debate (major opponents are religious folk). I will always choose the side of the debate that promotes love, acceptance, and bottom-line -- what is humane in a civilized society. God created DIVERSITY in the entire universe. We must learn to value diversity and not condemn it because we don't understand it or because it has not been our human experience or because we believe this is what the Bible says (in my opinion what the Bible says and what the Bible teaches are two different things! Bible literalists kill people on the basis of faith claims! ) or because we believe that this is what God wants (God cannot hate what God creates!). We live in a post modern, technological, scientific society and yet we still debate and deny human rights.

Lydia Part 3: My prayer today is that the actions of the Citizens of New York will begin a wave around this country for the removal of federal and state or any governmental ban against same sex families -- remember that these families have children and youth whose self-esteem and purpose are destroyed and/or limited by the hate and injustice of denying equality to their parents/guardians -- if we really say we care about our children -- care about ALL children -- children who are same sex too! How will they reconcile in their consciousness a culture, a God, a religion, a government that says to them you don't have a right to be who you are -- you are sick -- your are sinful -- when they are neither -- they are simply different. I love New York! lydia meredith

I'd like the gay marriage opponents to revisit this page and share with us the first them they cheated on their spouses or loved their spouses less as a result of some guy out there marrying another guy. I, frankly, don't see the connection. Others insist there is one. Well let's keep this concrete. Please tell us how lesbians marrying weakened your relationship.

I'd also like to note that I know of no one who has ever stated they felt their marriage was lessened by their neighbor's divorce. Do you?

Finally, I sure do hope, for the sake of their eternal souls, that the opponents of gay marriage don't eat shrimp.

Leviticus 11:9-12
These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat. And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you: They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination. Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.

how can this idiot say its a great day for america , it is just another thing to add to the list of reasons america is falling apart ,its funny they wont let the people vote on these issues because they know it wont pass because there are still enough of us left that know what is right and what is wrong , and gay marrage is wrong !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LIVE AND LET LIVE is their motto. Meaning "Be AS SICK AS YOU CAN - BE AS ABNORMAL AS YOU WANT TO BE right? It's a free country right? A FILTHY SICK COUNTRY WITH NO MORAL VALUES OR DECENCY! What's next ? There will be no limits anymore. HAVE YOU SEEN THE DISGUSTING GAY PRIDE PARADES? THEY HAVE NO SHAME! They DANCE around PRACTICALLY NAKED WITH WHIPS these sickos. DISGUSTING TRANSVESTITES everywhere! THESE ARE THE TYPE OF PEOPLE THIS FIGHT IS ABOUT! SICK SICK SICK. I WILL NEVER SUPPORT HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGES EVEN IF EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THIS COUNTRY DOES!

and to all of you that say because we do other things wrong in gods eyes we are sinners which is correct but it doesnt make what we do wrong anymore right so dont try to use that because being gay is wrong no matter how you try and justify it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For the AOL poll, I do not support same sex marriages. In fact, I find them nauseating!
With an increase in crime, a $14 trillion plus national debt, high unemployment, people being forclosed
on for their homes, etc., etc., I woud have considered it a "great day" if more were done for the
unemployed (been there), stopping foreclosures (almost happened), closer ties with our international
allies which seem to be in jeapordy, and countless other problems our country faces. My son is on his
fourth tour of the conflict (sometimes he cannot even call me for months at a time)--and my wife told me that she heard that military pensions were going to be cut!! God bless all of our military, past and
present, who serve our nation. It is, to me, vehement that "gay marriages" are considered "a giant
leap" towards some loatheful agenda--while my son may die in the service of his country and/or
have a lower pension if he retires from the Armed Forces!!!!!!!!!!!! It is beginning to seem to me that the
"core values" of this country are going down the proverbial tubes somewhere close to lightspeed!!!

Homosexuals are using Blacks as a SCAPEGOAT. RACISM IS WRONG and HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGES!. 1st they use racism now immigrants. HOMOSEXUALITY is a SICKNESS. Nothing will change that. 2 men or 2 women being in a sexual relationship is ABNORMAL and WRONG. Why cant 2 men or 2 women bear a child? BECAUSE IT IS IMPOSSIBLE PHYSICALLY. YOU ARE NOT BORN GAY it is something LEARNED and is a sick perversion

First they created a catorgory called pedophile, not homosexuals. Becaust that is what most pedophile's are, and now they want us to believe homosexual beheavior is normal buy creating gay marriage

First learn to spell because, before you breathe out cruelty toward anyone. Ignorance is the disease not same sex marriage.

Has anyone ever watched a gay video? OMG My poor kids! The country has gone NUTS!!!!!

Well said, Lydia, well said.

A lot of stone throwing. GOD would not approve. He LOVES everyONE . Be happy for equality and peace.

SO where does it end? Do girls now fight to be in boy scouts....for equality? can I now marry my dogs for the tax write offs....? Can I have a few wives as they can have a few husbands so we can live communally and have tax write offs? Can I now get a job in HOOTERS? for equality? can I run red lights because Id rather go on red and stop on green? Gays had equalrights with civilunions....it wasnt enough....so they now made us all change the definition of marriage and I say thats not fair. But thats what the legislature wanted..I truly think something like this should be brought to vote by the people if the majority agreed Id go along with it. But until that ever happened I will accept it but not agree with it. I will have to say congratulations to gay people. however I wish you could have made up your own version of marriage and called it....gayrriage but for now there is a new definition...how it all plays out who knows? How Providence reacts who knows?

The 100s of male priests that molested 1,000s of little boys were a combination of phedophiles and homosexuals

I wonder where this legislation of morality would have landed, if science hadn't advanced to the point where, a male and female don't have to be in the same state to couple up?
We continue to repeat mistakes that we've made in past. You can't legislate morality or imorality to mold society to your prefered position every four years, and say that it's "OK" Now! problem solved! BS!!

millissa........
when i said normal i mean a man and a woman as it should be anything else is wrong your sort are no better than animals.....ohh wait ..even animals arnt that depraved !

I think the real winners here are, as usual, the attorneys. I am sure they are licking their chops just waiting for the divorces to come rolling in. I think it is great! Why should they get off when the rest of the people have to pay and pay and pay. Look at Rosie and Melissa and Martina. After a while I think they will be living with each other and not getting married the same as they are now. It is just a big WANT not a NEED!!!!!!!!!

SO.... more and more of YOUR TYPE seem to have evolved over the last few years and YOUR TYPE seem to have gotten a voice and been heard ...so if more and more child molesters evolved would you say yes give them the same rights as normal people ?.......no didnt think so .!!!!

eh, they are here, they are gay, they can now marry... whoopy friggin do, they need to put down their flags and stop celebrating in the streets and get back to work like the rest of us... otherwise they will have to find a new job cause they didnt show up for work.

Really? So lets have straight parades!!!!

I find it almost funny how people throw verses of the Old and New Testament around without really knowing what is written in the books. Its no longer treated as a book of worship but a reference guide for uneducated people to lay false blame. They don't follow the laws, they don't do as God commands, .. unless its convenient for them. Unless something happens in their lives they don't like, then they go into those pages from over 2,000 years ago and start twisting words until it makes sense.

For all those people out there quoting Leviticus, Corinthians, and Romans .. you need to delve a little deeper into what is said. Remember: This was originally written in Hebrew and translated to Greek. Not English. Misinterpretations of Bible verses abound!

Melissa you raise real valid points...God said there will always be the poor...as in Africa many of their governments are extremely currupt and evil as such many will suffer not to say individual blessings arent there they are....but the nations as a whole without Gods blessings will never have true peace or happiness as for our nation it is founded on freedom....there is either freedom or tyranny..something we are heading back to today as many of our rights are being taken away.

Well another state gone to hell in a hen basket. They are so worried about unnecessary stuff when they should be worrying about the economy, terrorist, and everything else that would make you a true proud AMERICAN. Those who is worried more about gay marriage is the same people doing drugs, are trying to tell other people how to live, and never once supported the military. They never defended this great country unless it benefits them. They never say "Hey, my neighbors are having some problems. Let see if we can help them?". All those people really makes sick. I am a proud AMERICAN. I support my military, help my neighbors when they need help and I will defend my family and this country to the end. That is what a proud AMERICAN is.

For those who wish to further use the Holy Bible as propagation for homosexual hatred:

Romans: It is stated by Paul in the New Testament that homosexuality is bad. But its also stated by Paul that women are of a lower class than men and that slavery is a perfect okay thing. If you believe in the oppression of women and the usage of slaves, then okay, I'll give you this one. But only if you follow all of Paul's writings.

Corinthians: Mistranslation of a Greek word which is now called "homosexuality". In the list of "bad things", along with thieves, liars, etc is "arsenokoitēs" which is broken down to "man" and "bed" with sexual connotations .. which has been mistranslated into "homosexuality". It actually means "prostitution", specifically male. A word can't be broken down, translated, and put back together .. otherwise the word "understand" makes no sense as the definitions of "under" and "stand" have nothing to do with understanding. So Corinthians says male prostitution is bad, not homosexuality.

Levititcus: This one is against male homosexuality, not female. However, Leviticus is against a lot of things no longer seen as immoral or "abominations". Eating shellfish, like shrimp or lobster? Thats an abomination. Wearing poly-cotton blend clothes? Abomination. A child curses your name? You have every right to kill him. Slavery? By all means, its cool! And if you're a widow without a child? You can only marry his brother.

Actually, here! http://www.jewfaq.org/613

What if unfortunate is the lack of knowledge on both sides of this equation. Yes, I tend to lean to the Biblical side, but there also can be misunderstanding there.
When God created Adam and Eve, He did create them male and female. The Bible also says in the life
after that there will be no male and female. That is because we are spirits in a fleshly human form. The
Bible says that God and the Son of God are spirit's and that we were created in their image.
We cannot explain why the Bible says male and female, because I believe if He wanted to just create
one sex and allow them to be able to create other flesh humans, that He could have done it. Research
by Scholars hasn't shown "that I know of" that He gave permission to create in any other form.
"TO BE CONTINUED"

wowww im glad gay marrage is becoming a law now the people who has nothing to do but protest can try and help me out i'd like them to start protesting to make it a law that my dog can marry my next door neithbors cat

What if unfortunate is the lack of knowledge on both sides of this equation. Yes, I tend to lean to the Biblical side, but there also can be misunderstanding there, because of the truths hid by the law makers of that time "as the Bible says" and that they also taught their children to hide the truth.
When God created Adam and Eve, He did create them male and female. The Bible also says in the life
after that there will be no male and female. That is because we are spirits in a fleshly human form. The
Bible says that God and the Son of God are spirit's and that we were created in their image.
We cannot explain why the Bible says male and female, because I believe if He wanted to just create
one sex and allow them to be able to create other flesh humans, that He could have done it. Research
by Scholars hasn't shown "that I know of" that He gave permission to create in any other form.
"TO BE CONTINUED"

Ok, before you get up tight with me, let's talk about the issue's at Sodom & Gommorah, where the males came and wanted the male "oops" Male? angels, turned over to them so they could forcibly have sex with them or abuse them, however we call it.
There also were books left out of the Grace or "New Covenant" of the Bible by the Orthodox church that
specifically spoke against Rabbi's or Priest's having sex with boy's and any male or female of having
sex with any of like "kind".
I believe the reason that these were left out, they pointed a finger directly at the mainline church of that day and the wrong doing of the Bishops and all that were in control.
Also they "Barnabas" in particular said it was wrong for fetuses to be killed in the womb or babies to be killed after birth. So apparently what is happening today was happening in the controlling body of the New Testament church, who ended up happening to be the Roman Government.
The Gospel of Barnabas was shoved out by the Orthodox "Universal" or "Catholic" Church in 300-400 AD or CE "Current Era", because it took the Church to task over these and other accepted principals that had been taught in the church and accepted as scripture.
No human can make another human accept or understand teaching unless God allows that person to understand. That person also has to desire knowing more of whom God really is. Jesus said He didn't come to judge, but to save. He said the words the Father shared through him would be the judge.

And the devil laughed!

And yes, Barnabas was a disciple before Paul came along with his story about the road to Damascus and the change in his life. Peter, James and John would not accept Pauls story, but Barnabas stood up for him.
Later on Paul took over the whole show and you never heard anything about Barnabas after that, which I think was a direct reflection of Pauls actions. James, the brother of Jesus was given control of the church after Jesus and Paul was at great odds with James. It appears that James teaching was similar to Jesus as was Barnabas' teaching, so go figure, who was covering up what ? For control of the church, thats what !!!!!!!, by conceivably hiding the truth from the believer's as the Bible says. Folks that happened immediately after the spirit Son of God left the human form of Jesus and went back to the Father, so the
spirit Son of God could send the spirit Comforter, who was to and does teach mankind the truth, not the
truth necessarily taught by the church.

A gay couple lives down the block from my family and they're the nicest folks you'd ever want to meet. They're also raising 2 adorable kids. Committed gay and lesbian couples like them deserve the same right to get married as me and my wife. Nobody should be treated as a second class citizen in 2011. Anybody who has a problem with full equality for ALL Americans should move to North Korea or some other totalitarian state.

O K All, as a 85 year old, married for 63 years to the same woman old man in Calif Please let me say this, I have had and been caused 10 times more grief and trouble by " Bible Thumpers" than I have gays. I wish you ALL a very nice day. Just a Happy OLD Irishman

I really believe that jesus was a homo, and got it on with god on a regular basis. That's incestuous, yes...but it's homo too. Anyway, if they lived in New York, they'd be able to get married now! YAY!!! Oh...wait!! They'd have to legalize incestuous marriages, too! :( Maybe soon! :) Go god! Go jc!!

Amen to that, William. I'm sorry, but I've got to say that Doug Stewart and Bob Basher obviously have some serious personal issues to deal with. They can try to cloak themselves in the Bible, but that doesn't take away from the fact that they're bigots. Just like those bigots who quoted the Bible in the 1960s in an effort to keep it illegal for blacks and whites to get married. Thank God the vast majority of New Yorkers don't agree with your warped views, my friends.

Mellissa;
I think you better check your "higher thought process !!!! Of course I know straight couples sometimes need donors. But if they could conceive the old fashioned way they would not have to use someone else because they are the same sex and can't therefore reproduce !!!! MORON !!!

I think people may be more accepting of gay civil union recognition, but only if states establish and follow the same common law guidelines as would be used for opposite sex unions. States should have a minimum time – maybe 5 years - that a couple must live together as married for them to be recognized as legally married. Numerous U.S. and international studies show that, on average, same sex partners stay together for only 1½ to 2 years. This fact might greatly reduce the squawking from the opposing side..

As a pastor my coments are not going to probably line up with some people, but I also feel that it's my responsability to let people know the truth and don't allow them to be mislead. In the Pledge of Allegiance there is one part that says "One nation under God", our currency says "In God We Trust." At the same time as we have God on our currency and on the Pledge of Alligiance we don't have him in our minds when we choose to live the life style we want to live. A gay life style is wrong period God destoyed Sadom and Gamora because of this. He told Adam and Eve to be fruitfull and multiply. He created a man's body to work in conjuction with a woman's body. So that it is a good painless experience when they are intimate with each other. We also tend to forget that there is one day that none of us will be able to hide or run from wether we are Christians or not and that is judgement day, on that day everyone that has ever walked on the face of this earth WILL BE JUDGED. Those that perform same sex marriages will be judged, they wont be able to say they didn't know because if they are ordained and went to bible college they had to learn the same things I did, unless they skipped some chapters in the bible. I will not pass judgement on people is not my job. But according to God's word, which is what I follow. There are people heading on a highway to hell. It's sad because I'm sure some of these people are good people but they are following a lie.

Michael, I'd love to know where you got those statistics from the "numerous U.S. and international studies". Jon Cooper and his partner have been together for over 30 years, and I personally know another gay couple that's been together for over 40 years. I also know a straight couple that got divorced after being married less than 6 months.

Anyway, civil union is obviously not the same as civil marriage. I don't know whether you're married, but if you are, would you be equally satisfied with being "civil unionized"? I doubt it.

It is a little crazy that if you diasgree with same sex marriaged you are immediately labeled as "homophobic" or a religious zealot. I happen to be agnositic & not homophobic, but consider myself to be a traditionalist. I do not support people having children out of wedlock or gay marriage. That said- I have nothing personally against single mothers or gay people & would never march against their rights. I just can't understand why we all keep have our opinions. I'm glad to have been born in the late 60's in an era where everyone just had children because they could & marriage consisted of man & woman. I'm all for legal unions- but in my personal opinion marriage traditionally has been a man & a woman & that's how I wish it would remain. Just my opinion.

It sure beats being anal retentive, bible thumping Conserva-Toads. The book they cherish is a collection of stories that were thrown together by a cleric from a series of stories. We will never know the extent of the number of books that were available to choose from or if the translations are accurate. Most churches rely on manmade doctrines and not the true words of any God they choose to worship. Organized religion has done more to foster holy wars, to keep mankind uninformed, and to subjugate women than any other organization in history.

Is it just me or does his partner look like a women? I thought it was.

It seemed to me that having kids out of wedlock was illegal. what ever happened to that law?? and it's prosecution. Where did that one start or finish?? some commend sinse please!!

Just my two cents, but being straight and close to being a senior citizen, I think this is a great thing. Everybody should be equal under the law and allowed to live their lives as their conscience and body demands. Discriminaton against anyone for any reason is evil. If people would mind their own business, quit spouting quotes from a book that advocates slavery, mass murder,death for almost every "infraction" and treat people like you want to be treated, we wouldn't need to wait centuries for those who aren't like "us" to get the rights and equal treatment they deserve from birth.
Congratulations, New York. If the fire and brimstone hasn't hit by now, I think you're home free. (Joke, for those of you who believe in such things.) Hope this does spark a nationwise reevaluation of this. Be one more act of discrimination we can cross off the list.

REPENT NOW,,,, TOMORROW WILL BE TOO LATE.... NO excuse for homosexuals...you know the truth! you are living in sin and against God's will!!! and you will be judged unless you repent of your sins and lifestyle...same goes for liers, drunks, thieves ....but remember that JESUS DIED FOR YOU!!! you must repent and seek his forgiveness!!.TODAY IS YOUR DAY OF SALVATION!

miketherevelator you have just entered the club of the onesided minded professors! lots of years on you but very little knowledge or wisdom! ... the same professors that call for equality and a stop on discriminations but are the first to keep us christians from praying to Jesus or keep us from reading the bible. You are a jjoke , stop discriminating blacks and christians first because i known you to hate both!

What an AWFUL & SAD day for ALL of humanity !!!

Lord God in Heaven, PLEASE have mercy with us for provoking you so - and PLEASE return quickly to take your people away from this scourge of nations and filth of evil imagiantions of such reprobate minds !

Great day in America !!!!!!!!!!! are you kidding should read what a shame. This world is ending .. Lord please help us honestly !! God dont punish us for what is happening in this world that you made for us . what is going on ?Lord have mercy forgive them for they dont know what they do :((((

happy & proud to be straight !!!!!!!!!!!!

I HATE NY

Liberals are destroying America with abnormality at every turn!

I have a dream!!!! Out of this world! America is dying slowlyyyyyyyy.

If my people whom are called by my name (christians) shall humble themselves and pray!!! I will forgive their sin and heal their land!....

A call to all Christians to pray for mercy!

Evil will not go forth if a righteous man will stand up agains it!!

Let us pray against the demons that whant to take our land!

We have killed the innocent! thru abortions and the church has kept quiet! ... we have had our children sexually abused in school thru "sexual education" and the church has kept quiet!.... we have abondoned all moral codes in order to avoid been called "religious fanatics"....

Church leaders are beging for money!! and dont take a stand morally because they fear reprisals. (sorry for those that are out there standing up for America and God!) It is time for leaders to stand up and march in NY City now!!!.... SAY NO TO PERVERTION!!!

Gov. Andrew Cuomo OUT OF OFFICE!

First, a special tip of the hat to fellow Irish American William Cahill, who has a few years on me.

As some other getting-on-in-years fathers (I have three kids) and grandfathers (I have one granddaughter) have said, this is all about human rights, and many of us have seen homosexual couples who have been wonderfiul parents, indeed better than some of our straight friends. My wife of twenty-five years agrees.

This is also a matter of you not forcing your religion on me --nor me forcing my religion on you -- and it is a matter of respecting differences in beliefs and opinions.

Now, if everyone who is criticizing the ability of homosexuals to now marry in NY -- whether in civil marriages, or in religious marriages for those religions which will permit them (as they will NOT be forced) -- also follows every prescription and proscription in the Bible, including not eating shellfish, or pork, or cutting our beards, or wearing clothing of mixed fibers, and on and on and on, I will disagree with them, but I will at least respect them for consistency.

Or, as Jesus said, Let those without sin cast the first stone.

Jerry, I agree with you 100%. This IS all about human rights, and equality under the law. If anybody is so uptight that they want to deny equal rights to loving couples simply because they're gay or lesbian, they seriously need to get a life. We've got enough bigotry and hatred in this world without adding to it. And by the way, this bill passed the State Legislature in a democratic vote with bipartisan support. If you don't like living in a democratic society, you can move to China, Cuba, North Korea and lots of other nice totalitarian states. Don't let the screen door slam your rear end on the way out!

There you go again! ;it is only about human rights when it is convinient to you and your views! Once again i must repeat myself... if you are so uptight about human rights why don't you defend the most defenseless humans , called fetus as you call it! why not defend the rights of everyone to be able to express themselves as they wish.....you hipocrites, you condemn a high school graduate from mentioning Jesus! give me a break! you are the ones on the way out! Lesbians and Homos are sick! period! they love to have sex with kids!!! and this is not made up,,,, they admit to it! they love to undress in public parades!!! not giving a hoot about kids watching! give us a break and go to an island and do you thing, perhaps in Cuba!

Abel, you are one sick puppy. All I can say is I hope you don't live anywhere near me. You really creep me out.

GThe truth hurts!!! do not hide we know what you do. You know what they do also...so who is the sick puppy?
We are all capable to become all that we can imagine!!! so be careful what you think about me.... you may become like me!!! a defender of life and truth!.....a defender of life ...and honest ..decency!!! is that to creepy for you...sicko?

Me too, Rick! I find it exceedingly ironic when Bible thumpers actually quote other 'abominations' such as 'fornication, adultery, thievery, covetousness, eating shellfish' and on and on - 99% of which 'sins' these people likely commit every day --yet still use some vague reference of men not being with other men to back their discrimination against gay people. They further claim this to be 'god's word'. I've been asking for umpteen years and no one has so far shown me where any god himself (or herself) ;) wrote a single word. Their bible is purely a series of stories compiled by individuals, translated from the Hebrew and revised many times over. Most people I know have absolutely no clue whatsoever what much of the writing actually means. They need to have it 'explained' to them by their ministers. These modern day religious nuts who think all people are supposed to live by what THEY believe in (no thanks!) should feel free to practice their religion. Trouble is they insist on imposing their faith on the rest of us because they can't fathom anyone believing otherwise. The conservative right-wing element of the republican party has done a heckuva job convincing them this is freedom of speech? Such hypocrisy! So sad when they finally wake up to realize that we actually do live in a Democratic society and the founding fathers did NOT create America as a christian nation, but one where there is freedom of and FROM religion.
Abel...get a real life/mind your own business.

Scotty you are pathetic ! I can put capital letters all I want and exclamations as I feel >>>so buzz off . good for your neighbor.. still wrong in the eyes of the LORD which you as I can tell know nothing about , yes I am having a nice trip I am going to DISNEY WORLD wooo hoooo

What a sad day for America. Homosexuality is a perversion and a sickness of the mind and body. Who cares about the children right? These sickos are already polluting the public schools by SHOVING and telling kindergarteners that it is okay for a man to be with a man or a woman to be with a woman. This is SICK!. They are fighting for their right to sodomize each other. That is NOT LOVE BUT SICKNESS AND LUST. These homosexuals try to poison everyone. They want everyone to be sick and abnormal just like them. There was a lesbian that was hitting on my sister when she was younger. She never responded to that sicko. I too experienced that. Bisexual girls hitting on me. I am not a homo and they try to poison me, my sister, and other normal people with their sicknesses. What will a homosexual man tell a child that he has adopted when the child asks "Why do I have 2 daddys. Why don't I have a daddy and a mommy." The homo will tell the child that it is NORMAL and OKAY for 2 MEN TO BE WITH EACH OTHER AND SLEEP WITH EACH OTHER AND it is OKAY AND NORMAL. Only a small amount of people have any decency in this country. A Lot of People are losing their minds into their sicknesses

Why is there a Gay Pride Parade in Huntington, but no 4th of July Parade? Quite frankly I think ALL ethnic parades should be abolished, it's getting absurd. Veterans Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July and a Holiday Parade. All are inclusive. And you don't have to explain to your 6 year old why a man with a mustache is dressed up like a woman either.

Don't let homosexuals DEVIATE YOU with THEIR LIES. They call EVERYONE that do not support homosexuality and homosexual lifestyles as hateful. That is a LIE. I do not feel hate toward a homosexual. I am disgusted with homosexuality. Disgust and hate are 2 different things. I was just in the supermarket the other day. There were 2 old homosexual guys in line in front of me. 1 of them sparked a conversation and started asking me questions. Was I rude to him? NO. I politely answered his question. Deep down I felt sorry for him because he is living a sick life and I hoped that one da he will wake up and see how wrong and disgusting his lifestyle is.

I don't care about their lifestyle. What they do in their house is their business. However, there is a bumper sticker I see in Huntington Village and had has the rainbow horizontally across it and it says, "Celebrate Diversity". No, I will respect and tolerate diversity, but who the heck says I have to celebrate it? Why? It's the same garbage with the parade. Minuscule crowds, and we are paying for the cops, sanitation and highway? And, no 4th of July Parade? I was hesitant to mention the parade, for fear of being called a hateful gay basher, but facts are facts. Little to no spectators at the Pride Parade.

Words HOMOSEXUAL USE for their PROPAGANDA are homophobia, discrimination, etc. A phobia means an extreme fear of something & is a mental disorder. So homosexuals claim that everyone that are against homosexual marriages have an extreme fear of homosexuals and have a mental disorder? Look at how ridiculous their claims are. They are trying to flip the tables on the normal people. So basically what they are saying is Let us infest the Public Schools of the Children which they are already doing and teach them that Homosexuality is okay and Normal, Let us infest the Movies the TV and let us proudly prance around and show our gayness and shove it down your throats wether you like it or not (Just watch HANGOVER 2, GLEE, MODERN FAMILY, SCHOOL OF ROCK, SKYLINE, etc). Let us REDEFINE marriage in Society and make it FILTHY. The definition in the dictionary will now say that marriage is also for a MAN & a MAN or a WOMAN & a WOMAN. Wether it is against nature and even if the human body was not made for a MAN & MAN or a WOMAN & WOMAN to have children naturally.

Homosexuals want to adopt children that have already been exposed to enough trauma that are in foster homes. I had a friend who was in foster home. She DOESN'T DESERVE to be put in a home were 2 men or 2 women will POLLUTE her to their gay lifestyle. Alifestyle were she will be shown kissing between 2 men or 2 women. Or the fact of knowing that the 2 men or 2 women are sleeping with each other. Just search online about the teacher in Massachusetts who brought a GAY FAIRY TALE BOOK & read it to 7 YEAR OLDS. The gay book was about 2 MALE PRINCES FALLING IN LOVE! If we are not okay with these homosexual behaviors we are Discriminating. WOW!

There go Scott again thanks for being so into my feelings. You're just to blind to see what wrong. You have got to have no knowledge of anything. It's wrong no matter what it's not right in the eyes of God. But it's HIM they gotta answer to. And you will be right there with them. Oh ! And also your neighbors !!!!!

Exactly Duyne ! I feel for my daughter who's young and doesn't understand what will we say to young children when they stare and ask what are the doing. That's what parents fear

Let me guess your a homosexual too huh scotty? Scotty AKA Scott Brown? There you go using the same PROPAGANDA. I'm fearful really? No Scotty your are WRONG. I am not in fear of homosexuals. I am just exposing the TRUTH about the gay lifestyle so that deviants like you will not be the only heard. When your kind keeps shoving your FILTH DOWN everyone's throat like Children's School, TV, MOVIES, The Sacred Union between a man and a woman there must be drawn a line. Someone needs to speak up because all we hear are you homosexuals crying about this crying about that. We want to be married cry cry cry. We want to teach little children in the schools that homosexuals marriages are okay and normal cry cry cry. I am not interested in your gay sex lives. It MAKES ME VOMIT. You are the Sick pervert not me. I am not the 1 prancing in parades almost naked and crossdressing

When I was in college. 1 of the teachers I had in English was a Lesbian. Guess what she had us read? 1 of the books was about a young lesbian girl's life. She had us write and reflect on the lesbian girl's life. What do you call that? That is just 1 of the many things that homosexuals do. They shove their sick lifestyles down eveyone's throat wether you like it or not. They want to implement it in your daily lives in any way they can

While I have no beef if a man and a woman want to marry, my primary concern is the radical element of the GL agenda wants to pollute, and I mean pollute the schools where young children will be confused. 2 incidents come to mind in Huntington. In 2006, there was a substitute teacher at HHS who was a transvestite. From what I heard, it turned into quite the distraction. Someone wanted to make a point, a point at the expense of the kids. Groups of teenagers would gawk through the window to see the "drag queen". Politically motivated? I would say so.

#2. Huntington Intermediate. A colleague of mine yanked his 2 boys out of the school after their teacher wanted to bring in a lesbian who told them of her "persecution". Now while I have no doubt the lesbian might have been persecuted against, if you want to talk about persecution, bring in someone who is African American, Hispanic, or believe it or not, the Irish had a rough time here, Italians too! Japanese were locked up in camps during WW2. Why puzzle a 12 year old and bring in a lesbian? Politically calculated? I would say so.

I hope this post is not pulled immediately (as was my last one dealing with the same issues.) On an
introduction, it seems that the United States Constution guarantees freedom of speech (within limits.)
However, IF the speech seems to be "against an agenda," this one or countless others, it seems that this right goes away. Condensing my family lineage drastically from my first post (yanked), I am of Scot-Irish-German-Native American descent. On my mother's side of the family there is a long history of military service dating before the Civil War in America. Some of my ancestors probably killed their
"next few generations" cousins, etc., during their duty to repel hostile actions by Native Americans.
On my father's side of the family (German ancestry), my paternal grandmother was the wife of a
chief (she was mixed Cherokee/Seminole). My paternal grandmother was a "five star mother" in World War II--five sons went to war, five sons came home in good health and decorated.
Now--I pose the question--shall I be angry that my Native American ancestors were possibly killed by members of my own family? Shall I be angry that distant German cousins were killed by my paternal
U. S. Army uncles and my (late for father and uncles)? Absolutely not on both counts!!!!!
Now: lets us examine my Native American heritage. I have been to Native American reservations where the residents were very meek to the point of humility. (See next post.....

I speak German as one of my languages. Some of the Germans were quite saddened that they had been forced to join the Hitler Youth and the Wehrmacht army (and in some cases the nazi party) to keep their families from being killed or other harsh sanctions imposed.
All right: 1. The Native American Nations (please don't throw the casinos arguement) have been, in too many instances, regarded as "second class citizens" in my opinion. 2. The Native American wars and World War II have ended. 3. Although there are many well-to-do German citizens in our country, some still feel like they are being sanctioned for the actions committed by the Axis powers during
World War II. 4. Are the foregoing points indicitative of fairness towards racial/ethnic equality? IMHO
a resounding NO! When are the people of our United States "wake up" to social, ethnic, economic
(14% unemployment in the metropolitan city where I reside), and begin agendas for solving these issues?? In my state, several schools have closed for lack of funds!!! Some were especially geared
towards improvement of minorities (e. g., blacks, Latinos, and others). What would be a "great day" to me is seeing municipal, county, state, etc., agencies promoting education for youth and getting more young people grants or the like for college, technical schools, etc.
Also, what is next? A governmental bill which would allow brother-sister marriages (I am an only
child)? More expense, less education? Long list!!!

Oh my God Duyne well said bless you

Yer darn tootin, pardner; I can't wait to get back to the values of the 18th Century.

Let's get rid of that Roosevelt Social Security, and that Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, and that Johnson Medicare, and that Obama Affordable Health Care Act.

Let's get back to American Revolution values, when men were men, and women were...oh, yeah, and blacks were...oh yeah, and life spans (unless you were really rich) were...oh yeah, and you couldn't be a Catholic in some places, and you couldn't be an Anglican in other places, and you couldn't be a Jew in other places....hmmmm.

Hey Jerry, stop with the extremes. And Obama care, albeit unconstitutional is the reason (I believe) the economy is sputtering. Based on what you may ask? Group healthcare preiums to corporations have renewed at a 20% increase. And younare going to say " greedy corporation". Nope, the insurance companies are pricing in the uncertainiry of Obamacare. Corporations are sitting on piles of cash, but will not hire anyone becausenof the uncertainty of what Obamacare will mean to them. So while Pelosi, Reissue and Obama are granting exceptions to all of the unions and political donors in their backyards, the American people are suffering with unemployment around 10%, Obama and other extremists can grin that they have their free healthcare.

"A great day to be an American." Let's see--ah, yes--a few ideas arise in my thoughts.
1. A day when the sons (and daughters) of former slaves and former slave owners stand arm in arm
(or arms around each others necks) on the red hills of Georgia (and/or any other state and/or "pick your
country.") (Does the name Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ring a bell? I did add/paraphrase--I don't think he would mind if he were still alive.)
2. A day when unemployment in the United States approaches 0% of people actively seeking work.
In undergraduate college economics, "full employment" was 3% of people actively seeking work. I long
for the day when the 0% approaches for "full employment"--this would mean that people who wished to do so would be sponsored for training, if they were unable to afford it or needed to be retrained, with
income on a sliding scale basis for grants/scholarships/loans IF they were highly qualified in one area
but lost their job--too many grants/loans are based on annual household income--doesn't matter if one just lost his/her job--what is wrong with this type of grant funding?

3. When the United States of America (with respect to my/our Mexican friends since their country is aptly named "Los Estados Unidos de Mexico"--The United States of Mexico) regains some sort of "core values" which CANNOT be bought or taken away by the (almost) oligarchical governmental policies
only now truly beginning to be as open and rampant as they are!! (See next...)

By the way--this country is a republic, not a democracy (in the truest senses of the words.) Democracy is derived from the Greek "demos" (the people) and "kratia" (to rule). This works in, perhaps small societies when one side can outshout, oughtfight, etc., the other so some piece of legislation, etc., would become law.
On the other hand, the republic is derived from the Latin "res" (thing, declension) and "publica" (the public thing (the implied since Latin had no indefinite articles.)) Our country is therefore an elected
republic by definition (although see my previous post on oligarchy!)

4. When citizens of the United States of America are REALLY not discriminated against because of
handicap, race, ethnicity, etc. I live in Florida and have been told by many Latinos that there exists,
even in this state, prejudice and hatred towards Latinos--the type of hard-working families and/or
their children of whom anyone would be proud. Heads up! Except for my Native American ancestors,
the Spanish settled Florida (as well as other states)--news flash people!! Latinos are one of the groups which
will probably pass "white, not of Hispanic origin" as the majority of ethinc groups probably before the
year 2050!! Oh, and the United States of America is the ONLY power nation which does not have
its school students speak/read/write more than one language!

These are a few things I would like people to ponder.

Now we've heard everything. According to our friend, the persistent high unemployment rate is due to concerns about the Affordable Care Act. I guess some people will simply not let the facts interfere with their radical ideology.

This recession, now nearly four years old, started in the last 18 months of the Bush administration and it is continuing in the Obama administration.

The recession followed a series of corporate scandals, bankruptcies and frauds in the late 1990's and early 2000's, and the lunacy reached its peak due to unmitigated greed and collective corporate stupidity (with the exception of Jamie Dimon) between 2005 through 2007, after which we began our deep recession.

Having been trained for a career of risk mitigation and credit analysis, it is a straightforward fact that many companies have learned something from their mistakes, but they are now gun-shy.

They are trying to assure themselves that the recession is over before re-hiring, lest they end up with more permanent employees whom they would only end up laying off, if it turns down again.

Are manufacturers being too cautious in their refusal to step up hiring? I think so, but I understand their caution.

Are banks too cautious in lending standards now? I think so, but I also understand their caution; however, it is more critical for the banks to expand credit availability, since part of the problem for manufacturers and other parts of the US economy is tight credit.

Jerry, whether you are privy to small business owners is irrelevant. 20% increase in healthcare preiums plus cash rich corporate America refusing to hire because of the mystery of Obamacare has been a legitimate hypothesis by Crain's and The Wall Street Journal. Logically, if you had a 20% increase in an expensive that may increase even higher, would you beh apprehensive to hire new people? Except if you are in Harry Reid's or Nancy Pelosi district.

Now, thanks to Coumo, Frank and Dodd lowering the lending standards at Freddie and Fannie, the walls came down. NAFTA and the abolition of Glass-Stegal was the cornerstone of the collapse. Banks were fined for not lending to those applocants the banks thought would be not be a prudent risk to their respective institutions.

While I like the Crain's organization, and subscribed to their Automotive News magazine for fifteen years, I never found the Crains' group good on analysis, whether Cain's Business (various editions) or Automotive News or the other Crain publications. They were good at coming up with some esoteric information, often useful, but not in having a comprehensive understanding.

As to the WSJ, well, people should always look upon any Murdoch publication with some rather large grains of salt. They have some good reporters, but the editorial pages are a cesspool, and you also have to wonder how much independence they allow their reporters.

Economists are all over the map on these issues, but few very independent and non-ideological economists make the kinds of aspersions that you have been making. These are primarily ideological contentions, and are purpose-driven.

Also, while I am no great fan of NAFTA, I don't think it had much to do with our recession; to make that contention you would have to prove that there were also no US gains due to NAFTA. These were not the same effects on all industries.

As to Glass-Stegall, the problem was not the loosening of the restrictionss of that law from the 30's; it was the subsequent lack of regulatory rigor, combined with our Gordon Gekko greed-driven economy that now has pay at the top ranks (and this includes the big traders who make huge bonuses) hundreds of times greater than pay in the bottom ranks.

Melissa...Bob Basher here...I thought about what you were saying in many of your posts..you argued well never lost your cool...and made the Christians look like they would feed you to the lions..myself included..I guess I was angry and feeling like this is beyond my control and it is...God will have to sort this one out.....and I do understand about being gay in most cases is as normal to you a s hetero is to me.I do also know God set up marriage the way he intended and anything beyond that Ill leave to Providence...So I hope you accept my appology I was not cruel yet I acted unbecoming of a Christian. God knows all he knew this and allowed this law to pass as I do believe nothing happens by accident and God no matter how I feel is i control....anyway I do think your debate was a good one. And I guess congratulations are in order.

Wow, being an avid reader of the Northport Patch, I have never seen such spirited comments on anything besides this topic. We are all born and live and then we die. It seems the religious zealots are the ones most opposed to this law. Why are they so scared ? Its not catchy. Why are the religous folks so inspired by a make believe man in the sky and a book which is full of made up stories from the dark ages?
Let us all love each other and give each other the respect to live their own lives as they seem fit.

I wish Marriage Equality for ALL was written into law at the federal level...it is so basic a right for a country that professes itself to be the "beacon of freedom"!

For Cathy, while I accept the fact that you are a non-believer, and have every right to be so, it is unfortunate that you have acted in such an ungracious and condescending way towards anyone who is a believer, regardless of the specifics of their beliefs.

There were some excellent earlier posts pointing out the problems with translation of scriptures from their original texts, and the folly of taking these semi-authoritative translations quite literally.

We also see people using scriptures like a menu, selecting texts which suit their prejudices or preferences.

And it goes beyond that to the point of people focusing upon the writings of Paul, not an original disciple of Jesus, and treating his writings as if they were the words of Jesus.

So there are all manner of distortions of Christianity, but for you to paint such a broad brush, and to describe the resultant scriptures as coming from a "make believe man in the sky," is beyond demeaning and unnecessary.

My belief is that Christian and Jewish Scripture was inspired by God, but written by very fallible men. And, to know how we should all act in life, we need to look at the words and life of Jesus, much more than any ancillary texts or epistles. They may or may not reflect "what would Jesus do?".

I believe that Jesus welcomes into the Kingdom all loving people, husbands and wives, husbands and husbands, wives and wives, and single people too, and that the standards are a monogamous loving relationship.

Cathy you have been mislead. From your remarks it tells us that you are an Athiest. There is a god. Take a good look at the country called "ISRAEL" they are the descendents of a man named "Abraham." The chosen people of God. The Palestinians are the Phillisitines in the bible. The same one that has been warring with Israel for Centuries. Egypt's Pyramids and Super Structures were built by Israelis when they were under Egyptian Slavery in which they were delivered by Moses with the direction and command of the God that you don't believe in. Why do you think there is so much hate towards Israel in the Middle East.Why is it that Isreal's enemy want to eliminate them off the face of the Earth? Beacause they are God's chosen people. Do know of haunted buildings. What do you think is haunting those buildings? Evil Spirits aka Demons. And if a human being does enough evil the Demon can enter your body and once it is in. It will be very difficult for you to get it out. The devil exist and he wants you to be an athiest. Then he can take you into hell with him for Not believing in the God that created you and for being an Athiest. Athiesm, Homosexuality, Adultery, Fornication, Theivery, etc are all against god. I hope that god enters your heart and takes you out of darkness. God loves you

I have had personal experiences with God. My son injured his eye and retained a Cut in his eyeball . I was so worried when it happened. We were concerned that he could lose his eye. We scheduled for him to go to the doctor the following day. I prayed the Holy Rosary and asked Mother Mary to pray in behalf of our son to god. I prayed to Lord Jesus and God for help and if he would in his will to heal our Son's Eye. My prayer was answered. The following day our son's cut in the eye miraculously SEALED. Within 3 days the cut was completely gone. The Satan and Evil Spirits/Devils/Demons exist. I know a person that had dealt with Demon Possession. It is real and it will scare the hell out of you if you ever deal with it or witness it happen to someone. I assure you - you will call out to God for help because no one will be able to save you but Lord Jesus Christ and God. Watch the lord of the rings. The character "Smeagle" there was something that was possessing him it showed another Smeagle but a very evil Smeagle (The 2nd smeagle shows the Demon in his form) that would continousely suggest evil things and then take over him once he himself has fallen into his own evilness. Also the part in the movie Harry Potter & the Order of Phoenix when Voldemort Entered his body in the end of the movie. That is exactly how demonic possession works.

I think that my previous posts may reflect some of my ideas of what I think would be "A Great Day to be
an American." Lack of racial discrimination, funding for education (see posts), enabling more people to get back to work, etc. I do wonder if paraphrasing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., would be considered
"bible thumping?" IF so, one would have a lot to learn and rethink his/her position(s) on issues of social importance.
On a personal note, I believe what is contained in The Holy Scriptures (The Bible). I took courses in Hebrew and Greek--I can read the Holy Scriptures in the source languages. I am also a medical professional: therefore I have taken science courses on the graduate and professional school level. I ONLY post this because some individuals on other boards have denigrated those of a religious persuasion to be uneducated, stupid, and worse.
I posted some observations attributed to Herodotus (the Greek historian, called "The Father of History),
Thucydides (Greek historian), and Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus regarding homosexuality.
I guess the scholars who translated these works were all wrong--right? NOT!!! As in a prior post, I guess
that freedom of speech (from secular sources) is a right in this country under our constitution--unless it
is politically incorrect to someone's agenda!! (My posts referencing the above writers were deleted/yanked, or whatever.) see next post.....

take me off ur mailing list and unsubscribe me....ur instructions are flawed and or corrupt and are making me very angry....I DO NOT WANT UR SERVICE OR 89 UPDATES SAYING THE SAME THING ABOUT THE NY GAYS......

I am a Christian, believing in the Holy Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. I have this
right. If it were not a right, I would still believe it. There will come a day when all will see God the
Father (confer the Book of Revelations, or for my Roman Catholic Brothers and Sisters in Christ, The
Apocalypse.) I am a sinner saved by the Grace of Christ. If someone does not believe this, that is his/her choice. However, after death, one may wish to have believed.
I leave with Paschal's wager: If there is no God or Holy Trinity and I am right, then the believer has
nothing to gain after death and I have nothing to lose. However, if the belief in the Saving Grace of
Christ and the belief in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit is correct, then the believer has everything to gain after death, and I have everything to lose.
I sin every day in some manner, but I pray that Christ will show me the Way to avoid the pitfalls of my sins so I may not commit the same ones again.
One Great Day for me was when His Holiness Pope John Paul II declared that all Christians believing in
the saving Grace of Christ, The Holy Trinity, and other essential doctrines of the Christian Faith are
ALL Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus--it was his hope that those who are not yet Roman Catholic
would join The True Church (what else could His Holiness say?) :)
I think homosexual marriage is wrong. This is my right, secular, religious, or otherwise.

OH....just a thought...but our marxist leader....a big beleiver of a one world government and socialist state....have specific goals in their path to be in control....I do not think this gay marriage bill is about gay marriage at all...if it was they would have been ok with civil unions..but no they want to change the definition of marriage itself to a mockery of morals and society....I think this is a ploy since marxist will take work away making everything the state....take property..eminant domain and take away that pesky religion...and how do they do that...simple....they have gay marriage..oh yeah they say the shurches are safe...have you ever known the government to be by its word? NO WAY they will maybe next year insist on a church wedding...and then since they have planted liberal judges in high places within the states...they will sue. to take away tax exemptions..and presto chango..no mre church....think about it! why would they take so much media time for this.....when our economy is in the toinlet as its being flushed before our eyes....and the MEDIA......CRICKETS......

Okay, Bob Basher, at first I thought you were serious (stupid and bigoted, but serious). But NOW you're ranting about the marriage equality bill being part of some nefarious MARXIST plot to take over the country. Oh me, oh my - whatever are we to do? You SERIOUSLY need to get some psychological help, buddy.

Im heterosexual, married to the love of my life, not caring what the bible says or doesnt say. Gay marriage doesnt affect my life, but bigots do affect my life. It is pretty scary how bigoted some people are. They must have evolved from the KKK. The bigots cant help it. Its how they were brought up.
Religion has nothing to do with marriage. Agnostics, atheists I'm pretty sure some of them are married and happily so.
The point being, its 2011. Gay men and women are entitled to the same rights as heterosexuals. If you dont like it, then perhaps move to Iraq or Afghanistan.

It is great that gays can now finally marry in NY. Now if he rest of the country can make it happen, maybe we can finally be past this type of bigotry and nonsense and concentrate on important issues like the fact that our country is going broke and our federal government is totally incompetant. And as incompetangt as they are, they want more and more control. This is getting scary.

We hear the SAME PROPAGANDA words being used - Bigot, Homphobia, Discrimination. They also use the Same Lame Stale Scapegoat excuses - they use Racism and Immigrants as a comparison which has nothing to do with their cause. Hey - They say that We NORMAL PEOPLE should move to Iraq or Afghanistan. Wow. Well If you don't like the fact that WE WILL NEVER SUPPORT your HOMOSEXUAL MARRAIGES then why don't YOU Move to Iraq and Afghanistan and don't forget to take your sicknesses with you? NO this is our country and we will be staying here so cry your eyes out. We will stand to fight this sickness and we will continue to reject it. And once you stuff your homosexual filth down my children's throat in their schools and take away my right as a parent and pollute the innocent and easily influenced little children who don't know any better - I WILL SEE YOU IN COURT! We are in a recession. We are in a deep debt. People are losing their homes. The government is cutting medicare for the old and the poor. No change - No help from the government. Everything is still the same. The corrupt and stupid politicians wants to spend their time pushing the homosexual agenda instead.

@Basher: Civil unions do not enjoy the same rights and privileges as marriage. For one, civil unions are only recognized within the state they were set up. You cannot move from state to state and enjoy the civil union rights of another state. It’s as if the union does not exist. Marriage is recognized state to state. Second, civil unions are not recognized by the federal government, so same sex couples cannot apply for joint tax returns or be eligible for tax breaks or protections enjoyed by heterosexual married couples. In 1997, the federal General Accounting Office released a list of 1,049 benefits and protections available to heterosexual married couples. Most of these are not available to civil unions or same sex couples where marriage is legal in their state. The federal Defense of Marriage Act allows each state to deny any marriage-like relationship between same sex couples, which may have been recognized in another state. This includes civil unions.

Cont’d…The list 1,049 privileges include: joint parental rights of children, joint adoption, status of “next of kin” for hospital visits and medical decisions, rights of decision on disposal of loved ones remains, immigration and residency for partners from other countries, domestic violence protection orders, judicial protections and immunity, automatic inheritance in the absence of a will, spousal veterans benefits, social security, Medicare, joint filing of tax returns, wrongful death benefit of surviving spouse and children, bereavement or sick leave for care of partner or children, child support, joint insurance plans, tax credits (i.e. child tax credit), estate and gift tax benefits, welfare and public assistance, joint housing for elderly.
These are just a few of the 1K+ privileges that heterosexual married persons enjoy for a marriage license usually obtained for less than $100.

Thank you, Cathy! I'm cheering from my seat!

You can't stand anyone who does not support homosexual marriages. Wether it be a Christian or a Person that do not believe in god and also do not support gay marriages. Doesn't that make you a BIGOT TOO? You hypocrites!

Reading your comments Duyne I cant help but think about what I tell my wife and other people , "This is what happens when someone is trying to be intellectual, when in fact they don't have the intelligence to be intellectual."
You think you are NORMAL but you are actually the opposite. Calling someone a bigot is what it is.. It isn't propoganda, you're a bigot and I'm sure you will teach your children the same bigotry. I am sorry for them.
When you say stupid things like , "this is our country," who are you speaking for? Not the majority, not the rational people who realize we arent living foreign countries like Iraq where liberties are constrained and you are told what to think. Thankfully we live in the US where people like you and people like me can express our diametrically opposed positions. Thankfully we live in a country where people who are different than YOU can live their lives. Although its evident from your rants that your hatred and anger towards anyone different than you would cause those people to worry about physical attacks. You seem to be that type. I pity you. You will never know better.

If religion has nothing to do with marriage then why has the homosexuals INFILTRATED the Episcopal Church? Episcopalians are christians and now the New Bishop is a Gay Man and a Lesbian Woman. Both have homosexual partners. Because of this takeover The episcopal church broke into 2 parts the ones that are Gays and the 1 that are not blinded by the sickness and do not support gay marriages. Good for the ones who continue to hold up the light. Yeah sure - gays don't want to marry in the church. Sure they don't. They have already started performing gay marriages in the Episcopal Churches. The main issue here is that homosexuals want acceptance. They want society to see them as being normal when they ARE NOT. Like what I have said time and time again. DO NOT BE DECIEVED. Follow the lord Jesus Christ then you will be with him in the end. It is already written - that in the end of days the world will be at its lowest point. There will be no 1 you can trust. The christians will endure persecution and there will be only a very small amount of christians left fighting in the world. All you supporters of this very disgusting sickness-Satan's waiting for you. You know you lust on the straight people. I hope that god will make you feel inside that you are doing wrong. He gave U Free will-U choose how you want to live-what you want to do here on earth. In the end once you have left your body-every single human being will face god & his judgment. Then you'll be sorry but it will be 2 late

After reading Duyne's latest rant, I'm looking for Rod Serling in my rear view mirror when I get in the car. I'm guessing Jews or Muslims are next on his hit list. Sorry Duyne but I'm not here to be judged, I'm here to share my life with who I choose and to love who I want to love. Everyone has that right.

Get a holy rosary, Get yourselves the Brown Scapular. Keep a cross in your homes. Get holy water in the Catholic Church because it is TRUE- Demons are afraid of holy water it makes them scatter like roaches. the devil can get into your dreams. It can give you nightmare or sick dreams. Dip your hand in holy water and make the sign of the cross. Also make a cross on your forehead. The nightmares will stop. I stand as a living proof I have seen it and I have experienced the grace of god. God exist he is there waiting for you to change wether you are an athiest , a homosexual, an adulterer, a thief, a prostitute, a Pagan. He will still forgive you as long as you turn away from your sins. Never use the Ouji boards it calls on evil spirits/demons. Never dabble in Satanism/Devil worship. Usage of such evil things invite evil and may give satan power to get inside your body. But if you want to continue to live your life in evil then in the end you will give god no choice. Read about a place called Medjugorje. Read about the brown Scapular and the holy rosary. By the way The 1st catholic bishop is 1 of Jesus' 12 disciples and his name is Peter.

See I knew that anyone who isnt Catholic was next!

There you go with your propaganda David Klopman. You seem SO concerned about homsexual marriages. I bet you are a homosexual pretending to be a heterosexual. How can people that do not support homosexual marriages affect your life if your straight? You have a very radical and convoluted mind. Your mind is not grounded. JUST AS WE HAVE SEEN IN YOUR RANTS and your comparison of people that do not support homosexual marriages to the KKK. Sir you are living in a deep darkness and have a very screwed up mind. Oh by the way I am an educated person. I have acheived excellence academically. I have been in the honor society all of my life. I come from an educated family of Doctors, Engineers, Teachers, and Nurses. I have never once said anything about anyone that is not catholic. You do your Fear Mongering. May god have mercy on you when your judgment day comes.

Everyone take a look at the hsistory of all the comments that Mr David Klopman. David Klopman has searched for every article in this website that has something to do with homosexual marriages

Everyone take a look at the hsistory of all the comments that Mr David Klopman. David Klopman has searched for every article in this website that has something to do with homosexual marriages

Scotty aka Scott Brown. There you go with your name calling. If I'm a bigot then Jesus Christ and God is a bigot. You can't stand me - You are a bigot TOO. Go ahead live your homosexual life. No one is stopping you. But if you want to start pushing your homosexual agenda to the little children in the public schools, pushing your filth in the movies and shocking viewers who are not warned of the filth you have put in. Pushing your homosexual lifestyles such as the lesbians that hit on me and my sister. Also my College Lesbian teacher that pushed lesbianism unto the college students by having us read a lesbian girl's life. And then infiltrating and making a mockery of the house of the lord by placing a GAY BISHOP and a LESBIAN BISHOP. YES I DO HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT and I WILL STAND TO FIGHT AGAINST THIS SICKNESS. You choose to be in Satan's Side. I choose God and Lord Jesus Christ above all

Yikes! Dont forget to add I also commented on Red Light Cameras. Perhaps I'm a Communist too!

Aha - David Klopman in his OWN WORDS "I'm here to share my life with who I choose and to love who I want to love. Everyone has that right." Seems that Mr Klopman is talking just like the homosexuals you see in the rallies on tv and newspapers. Homosexual PRETENDING to be a Heterosexual. Sad

Keep talking Duyne. You are very intellectual! ROFL.
I'm pretty sure Heterosexuals choose who to share their lives with and who to love. Didnt you?

DAVID KLOPMAN you have PRETENDED TO BE A HETEROSEXUAL when you in realiry you are A HOMOSEXUAL. A Homosexual with an agenda to poison the public. That is really twisted and sad. Did I burst your bubble of LIES and the Charade you are doing. You can be an actor. You seem to like to pretend to be someone/something your an not. You see people. Look at how deceitful they are. Here we have a homosexual posting in the boards pretending to be a heterosexual.

DAVID KLOPMAN you have PRETENDED TO BE A HETEROSEXUAL when you are A HOMOSEXUAL. A Homosexual with an agenda to poison the public. That is really twisted and sad. Did I burst your bubble of LIES and the Charade you are doing. You can be an actor. You seem to like to pretend to be someone/something your an not. You see people. Look at how deceitful they are. Here we have a homosexual posting in the boards pretending to be a heterosexual.

You found me out Duyne. Now if you can just admit you're pretending to be a human being we can call it even!