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Saturday, June 25, 2011

New York Governor Approved Same Sex Marriage Bill

Current Governor, Andrew Cuomo signed the state's marriage equality bill. He passed the bill in the Republican-controlled Senate on 24th of June (Friday) night. New York is the sixth state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage. He signed the bill into law after the legislature approved to legalize same-sex marriage with a 33 to 29 vote, the first time a state legislature with a Republican majority has approved such a bill.

The Senate vote came after several days of delays that included last-minute negotiations, passing by a small margin with the support of four Republicans. The new law, which will allow same-sex couples to get married legally and enjoy all the rights as a couple in New York.

A vote on the measure, the Assembly adopted on 15th June was blocked in the Senate until Friday. But it turned a corner on Friday night, according to Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, after lawmakers agreed to an amendment to protect religious groups in the dispute had been pushed by Republicans. Cuomo said he would give homosexual couples the same rights to marry, “as well as hundreds of rights, benefits and protections currently limited to married couples of the opposite sex”

New York, the first place where the gay rights movement started in the 1960s, became the sixth state to permit gay marriage. Currently, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont and New Hampshire and the District of Columbia legalize the same-sex marriage.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who courted Republicans to approve the bill, called the vote a "historic triumph for equality and freedom."

Bloomberg said in a statement released shortly after the vote.
"In recent weeks, I have had many conversations with our state Senators. I emphasized that not only is marriage equality consistent with bedrock American principles, but it is also consistent with bedrock Republican Party principles of liberty and freedom -- and the Republicans who stood up today for those principles will long be remembered for their courage, foresight, and wisdom. In fact, 10 or 20 or 30 years from now, I believe they will look back at this vote as one of their finest, proudest moments."

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