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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
" 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
