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In case you missed the unparalleled pleasure of seeing NY Sen. Ruben Diaz getting smacked down for violating chamber rules, the Senate has just posted this video of the final moments of Friday’s marriage vote.

Just in via press release: Lambda Legal to Announce Marriage Equality Lawsuit with Garden State Equality on Wednesday at 10:00 am Save the Date: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. (Trenton, June 28, 2011) – Tomorrow Lambda Legal and Garden State Equality will hold a press conference announcing a marriage equality lawsuit. When: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 Where: Trenton …

NOM’s Brian Brown appeared on the American Family Association radio program to complain that the New York Senate “under the cover of darkness, betrayed marriage.”

Aaaand here come the pious town clerks. Barbara MacEwen, the town clerk in upstate Volney who is responsible for signing marriage licenses in the town, said she’s morally opposed to same-sex weddings and does not intend to affix her signature to any marriage documents for gay or lesbian couples. “If there’s any possible way to not do it, legally, then …

One day after World Net Daily called for NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s arrest for supporting same-sex marriage, a top Vatican adviser has declared that Cuomo should be denied Holy Communion. A senior adviser to the Vatican, who is a theology professor in Detroit, blasted the Catholic governor of New York for his strong backing of same-sex marriage, saying that he …

“I am confident that Proposition 8 will be gone by the end of the year and we’ll have marriage equality again in California too.”

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Buoyed by the result in New York, some activists in Maine say they are considering bringing same-sex marriage back to the ballot in 2012. In 2009 Maine’s voters rescinded same-sex marriage mere months after it had been approved by the state legislature. Since the defeat, gay rights advocates said they have been working behind the scenes to try to change …