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发帖数: 19713 | 1 N.Y. Archbishop Compares Gay Marriage to Communist Regimes
By Julie Bolcer
TimothyDolanx180 (Arch NY) | Advocate.com
As momentum continued to build toward the passage of a marriage equality
bill on Tuesday, New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan took to his website to
compare the legislation to the sort of social control more identified with
Communist regimes like China and North Korea.
Dolan wrote his piece the morning after three undecided Democrats and one
Republican who voted against the bill in 2009 announced on Monday that they
would vote yes on the marriage equality bill. Later on Tuesday afternoon,
Gov. Andrew Cuomo submitted his bill with exemptions for religious
institutions and a second Republican senator expressed his support.
“Last time I consulted an atlas, it is clear we are living in New York, in
the United States of America – not in China or North Korea,” the
archbishop wrote. “In those countries, government presumes daily to ‘
redefine’ rights, relationships, values, and natural law. There, communiqu
és from the government can dictate the size of families, who lives and who
dies, and what the very definition of ‘family’ and ‘marriage’ means.”
The bill needs one more vote, which must come from a Republican, to pass the
senate. Republican senators will meet in conference Wednesday morning to
decide whether to bring the bill to the floor for a vote, possibly on Friday
. Majority leader Dean Skelos, who personally opposes the bill, said last
year he would recommend the measure receive a vote pending consultation with
his members.
The New York State Catholic Conference, the lobbying arm of the Catholic
Church in the state, has indicated that it will not support the marriage
equality no matter the religious exemptions. Its powerful lobbyists can be
expected to lean hard on undecided Republican senators, many of whom are
Catholic.
The Democratic-controlled assembly, which has passed the marriage equality
bill three times, is expected to do so again once leaders there feel assured
of success in the senate. | m******1
发帖数: 19713 | 2 真是大脑进水了有木有啊！！！目前同性婚姻合法的有社会主义国家吗？ | D**S
发帖数: 24887 | 3 This is typical fear-mongering. The guy knows exactly how most Americans
will react upon the word of communism. He is a lowly person! | L*****g
发帖数: 646 | | R*****G
发帖数: 1665 | 5 靠，这个法盲。如果现行法律不定义marriage的标准定义，同性恋者早就可以结婚了。 |
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