My Email from Senator Oranato
My Email from Senator Oranato
#1My Email from Senator Oranato
Posted: 5/19/09 at 6:25pm
Senator Oranato represents NYC in the New York State Senate. After attending the rally on Sunday for Marriage Equality, I sent him an e-mail urging him to vote for the measure. Here is the email I got back:
" Thank you for your recent email expressing your support for same sex
marriage. As you may be aware, although I have met with a number of
marriage equality advocates in Albany as well as the district, I am not in
support of the same sex marriage bill. Throughout my
career in the Senate, I have supported many initiatives of importance to
the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, including the Sexual
Orientation Non-Discrimination Act (SONDA) and New York's hate crimes law.
I am also in favor of the Dignity for All Students Act and the Gender
Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA). In addition, I have secured
funding for groups in my district serving the LGBT community and providing
assistance for people with HIV and AIDS.
I sincerely respect your views, and I appreciate the time you took to
express your opinion on this issue. Thank you again for contacting me. "
I assume I am not the only one who got this back.
If you live in NYC, please e-mail him and ask him to support the bill. He may not budge, but we must let him know how we feel.
Here is his e-mail address: onorato@senate.state.ny.us
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#2re: My Email from Senator Oranato
Posted: 5/19/09 at 8:18pm
I love how he says he's not supporting it, then goes on about the other things he is supporting.
Who cares? So you did a couple of nice things. It still doesn't make up for the fact that you are treating gays as second class people.
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
#2re: My Email from Senator Oranato
Posted: 5/19/09 at 8:21pmexactly. Oh, you voted to help us a couple times, so this time I'll give you a pass.
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#3re: My Email from Senator Oranato
Posted: 5/19/09 at 8:24pm
In the words of CoCo Peru, "Suck my hairy left t!t."
I'm not giving passes to anyone any more. I'm tired of fighting and I'm getting pissed off. That's why I've armed myself with foam mace and a 1,000,000 volt taser.
It makes them poop their pants!
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
#4re: My Email from Senator Oranato
Posted: 5/19/09 at 8:30pmWhatever works, I suppose.
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#5re: My Email from Senator Oranato
Posted: 5/19/09 at 8:51pm
"although I have met with a number of marriage equality advocates in Albany as well as the district, I am not in support of the same sex marriage bill"
That's . . . unfortunate. I'm curious what information he was presented with, and what his specific negative response to it was - and why.
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