One of the NY Marriage Equality hold outs is from where I

[HockeyMom]

lived for 27 years and raised my kids. I did write to him. Back in the 90s, my daughter's soccer coach was gay. She lived with the HS's lacrosse coach. It was well known. Nobody thought anything of it. In fact, some of the girls used to talk to her about their "problems" if they were thinking about coming out. When my daughter went to her prom in 1996, there were openly gay couples at the prom.

In 2000, I worked for the local school district. In the first grade class that I worked in, there was a boy who had two Moms. That is in addition to the fact that fewer than half the kids in that class were being raised in a "traditional" families of a biological Mom and Dad. Try single parents, step-parents, and grandma and grandpa.

Nobody, I repeat nobody, blinked any eye when Joseph's two Moms came into that class to read to them, volunteer for fundraising, birthday parties, etc. They all KNEW because they lived in the same neighborhood as Joseph's Moms. Remember, this was only ONE CLASS in a town that had about 6,000 students from K-12. How many other Joseph's or Jessica's were in that student population? This was a town on LI about 45 miles from NYC.

So you are telling me that this senator is worried about a backlash in the community? Tell me another one.

[ejpoeta]

1. MOST people just don't give a crap. they don't care. they think gays should be able to marry.

should such a minority of people be able to make this decision for everyone else. and should legislators be able to take that minority and use them to pretend they can't pass a law because people don't support it?? that is crap. most people want gay marriage to be passed.

[justiceischeap]

3. The problem as I see it, is all those people who don't give a crap need

to say it out loud to the local politicians. When something like this comes up, the LGBT*.* community gets vocal but you don't hear much from the straight community who is supportive.

[ejpoeta]

5. you are right. not sure why more don't. they should. i live in ny. who can i contact that will

do any good. hmm... let me go and look.

[GodlessBiker]

2. Is this LaValle? He's my senator, too. He's an asshole of the highest order.

[HockeyMom]

4. Flanagan

who represents Huntington and Smithtown. Great religious enclave where the priests and rabbis are begging familes to attend worship instead of going to soccer games. Plus, how long has the Huntington Pride Parade been around? My daughter goes every year. Ok, the NYC one is a lot bigger, but so is the population of NYC.