Gay marriage opponents sue to overturn state law

[yankeepants]

Source: Syracuse.com

GENESEO, N.Y. (AP) — Opponents to New York's gay marriage law filed the first lawsuit challenging the measure, an anticipated salvo that came one day after weddings were celebrated around the state.

A representative of New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms and a rabbi said in a lawsuit filed Monday in state court that New York's Senate violated its own procedures and the state's open meetings law when it approved the bill on June 24.

The lawsuit claims that the Senate prevented lawmakers who opposed the bill from speaking and that the Senate didn't follow procedures that require a bill to go through appropriate committees before a full Senate vote.

Opponents of the gay marriage law had promised lawsuits


Read more: http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2011/07/gay_marriage_opponents_sue_to.html

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Oh and please don't cheat yourselves out of reading the idiotic comments by readers at the end.

[CreekDog]

1. "New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms" --ironic name for the ironically-challenged

:wtf:

:eyes:

[LetTimmySmoke]

2. So after a decade or more of whining that our side "runs to the courts"

after a loss at either the ballot box or legislature, here they are doing the same thing.

[brooklynite]

3. Talk about a strained argument...

None of the Republicans CHOSE to speak; the only complaint during the session was the Rubin Diaz didn't get to vent for as long as he wanted to.

[alp227]

4. the more recent comments are on the good side n/t

[sakabatou]

5. I'd bet they'd pull this shit for interracial marriage

if they were here in the 50s/60s.

[SoapBox]

6. The Haters just wanna keep the Hate going!

...and why is it that these freaks just can't stay out of other people's bedrooms?

Man, I'll be they are SO BAD in bed!

[lunatica]

7. As we've learned from Prop 8 in California and their recent rash of anti choice

legislation in various states, they will never give doing what they think is God's war against gays and women. We must all keep very alert to their underhanded and illegal tactics.

[cstanleytech]

8. It makes me sad that this law was passed at all.

After all if people used any common sense you think they would realize that government discrimination against two consenting adults is wrong.

[and-justice-for-all]

9. Their position is strictly religious...

and therefore should not be recognized by any court.