Note that among the collection of right-wingnuts, religious loonies, garden variety bigots, and cynical political opportunists who signed on to the lawsuit brought by Arizona's scary-fundy "Christian" (Dominionist?) Alliance Defense Fund to block Governor Patterson's directive recognizing same-sex marriage are five (5) Republican legislators. Might they be from YOUR district?

Maybe they should hear about how their Constituents don't want their tax-dollars spent on their elected representitive's personal religious escapades. Also remind them that you will remember this little mis-adventure of theirs come re-election time.

o State Senator Martin J. Golden (R) Brooklyn
o State Senator Serphin R. Maltese (R) Queens
o State Assemblyman James N. Tedisco (R) Schenectady-Saratoga
o State Assemblyman Daniel J. Burling (R) Warsaw
o State Assemblyman Brian M. Kolb (R) Canandaigua
o Michael R. Long, Chairman. Conservative Party of New York State
o Shaun Marie Levine, Executive Director. Conservative Party of New York State
o Duane Motley, member New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms
o Jason Mcguire, member New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms
o Stephen P. Hayford, Esq., Coalition to Save Marriage in New York
o William C. Banuchi, Sr. Marriage & Family Savers Ministries
o Angel D. Rodriguez, (affiliation unknown)
o Piyali Dutta, (affiliation unknown)
o William Carlson, (affiliation unknown)
o Nicole Carlson, (affiliation unknown)
o Frances Vella-Marrone, Brooklyn Conservative Party

Democrat Micah Z. Kellner has won the special election called to fill the New York State Assembly seat recently vacated by Pete Grannis who had been appointed Commissioner of New York's Department of Environmental Conservation.
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A large crowd gathered at New York City's Sheridan Square in The Village tonight to protest the NY State Court of Appeals decision to deny same-sex marriage rights to New Yorkers.

( read full text of Ms. Lambert's report and comments )

The New York Court of Appeals today ruled by a 4-2 margin that the state Constitution does not guarantee a right to marriage for same-sex couples. The court did not rule that the state should not or could not allow same-sex marriages, only that the state constitution did not require that it allow them. They further indicated that state lawmakers, not the courts, are better suited to consider the issue.

The worst part of the ruling was when they asserted that being against same- sex marriage cannot be regarded as bigotry and cannot be compared to laws prohibiting interracial marriage which were later overturned!

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( read letter from Executive Director of the Empire State Pride Agenda )

RALLY TONIGHT: Thursday, July 2006 at these Locations in NY State!!

New York City
Start time: 6:00 PM
Location: Sheridan Square (Christopher Street and 7th Avenue, Manhattan), site of the historical Stonewall uprising
Rain location: LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th Street

( more rally locations around NY State )