Greg Ball's All Atwitter at Gay-Marriage Bill: Upstate Senator Takes His Own Online Poll

• Greg Ball may be a loser, but he is NOT from "Upstate". In your article you say he supports Northern Westchester (and sadly, me) and Westchester is NOT upstate.

• If religious nuts want to live under religious law, let them move to Iran or Saudi Arabia.  The United States exists under a SECULAR CONSTITUTION and religion has ABSOLUTELY NO PLACE in the laws of the United States.  The Rethuglican Party is owned by religious extremists.

• When will everybody realize that what makes all people the same is so much more important than what makes us different.  I just don't understand the bigots who discriminate against gays.  As if homosexuals aren't human beings too.  As if they're not someone's son, or daughter, or sister, or brother, or father, or mother, or friend.  All people want to live in peace, we all feel love, we all want the best for our loved ones, we all have hopes and dreams, we can all feel pain, we all want to follow our bliss, we all struggle, we're all just trying to get through life the best way we know how.  How does any of that change with the color of someone's skin, or their physical abilities, or what God they pray to, or what language they speak, or what their sexual orientation is? If a man loves and wants to marry another man, or a woman loves and wants to marry another woman, what is that to anyone else? They're not hurting anyone.  Only a truly vicious, hateful, spiteful, selfish, vile misanthrope would begrudge someone their love of someone else.  People who hate homosexuals should be ashamed of themselves.  Those bigots deserve to live in the shadows.  They're not fit to show their faces in decent society.  And it seems patently unfair that gays and their families should suffer the devastating effects of discrimination, while bigots and their families go along untouched.  It's past time that the bigots are made to pay for their discrimination BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. Let the bigots and their families start suffering and maybe they'll learn their lesson. Anyone coming into contact with Maggie Gallagher or Brian Brown, leaders of that repulsive group, the National Organization for Marriage, or their family members, should take any action possible to harm them.

• Marriage equality is about being equal and having the same rights many take for granted! It' not about religion... it's about doing what’s fair!!  Besides, the Constitution of the United States of America forbids basing any laws on religious beliefs....  First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The First Amendment reads "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ...." This is just another form of history repeating... Do you not remember Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), in a unanimous decision, declared Virginia's anti-miscegenation statute, the "Racial Integrity Act of 1924", unconstitutional, thereby overturning Pace v. Alabama (1883) and ending all race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the United States; the only difference is now the government is bulling and discrimination against gays and lesbians; not blacks,  all based on a religious belief, which is a violation of our rights!! Do the right thing and allow us our pursuit to happiness! Do you want the same hatred many African Americans harbor toward the government to also be taught to the younger generations of the GLBT in this country? We are also Americans and are supposed to be guaranteed freedom of religion and by denying us equality you are denying us these freedoms and violating the rights of many American citizens, as well as the oath you took as a public servant! Besides what business is it of the government who someone loves?

• he did this because he has a snobby polo match coming up and wants people to spend money to go talk to him. no thanks loser!

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