Tag Archives: New York state

Another shot of good news for your weekend, not that the Liberty Counsel had a chance in hell to succeed. The Appellate Division of state Supreme Court in Rochester ruled against gay marriage opponents who argued that state senators violated New York’s open meeting rules ahead of the law’s passage on June 24, 2011. The law was given final legislative …

As of today, New York’s landmark anti-bullying ordinance is now state law. And as with so many LGBT rights issues in New York, heavy credit goes to Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell, the chief sponsor of the bill. Via press release: “As parents, educators, and former students ourselves, New Yorkers are all well aware of the great harm bullying can cause. I …

The four seventh grade boys who brutally bullied New York bus monitor Karen Klein have been suspended from school. The school system in the Rochester suburb of Greece says it will suspend the middle school students from their school and from using regular bus transportation for a year for bullying Karen Klein. The students will be transferred to a special …

This may be the first gay divorce for those married here since the law went into effect just over one year ago. It was inevitable. The legalization of gay marriage in New York is yielding the first wave of gay divorces. Two lesbians who got hitched six days after the Marriage Equality Act took effect last summer have gone public …

Openly gay candidate Sean Patrick Maloney won yesterday’s Democratic primary for the U.S. House. With most of the votes counted at 11:30 p.m., Maloney had won 48.3 percent of the votes cast in the four counties that will make up New York’s newly redrawn 18th Congressional District starting next year. Westchester County cardiologist Richard Becker came in second with 32.5 …

And now there are a whopping two state legislators who’ve signed on to NOM’s marriage repeal attempt in New York state. You should know that the newly elected Senator David Storobin from Brooklyn has introduced his first piece of legislation, Senate Bill S7712-2011 to repeal gay marriage in New York State. Senator Storobin was sworn into office two weeks ago …

So claims Truth In Action Ministries. Regarding the video that shows middle school students verbally bullying a 68-year-old school bus monitor, calling her names and using profanities, people are wondering what’s happened to today’s youth. Karen Gushta of Truth in Action Ministries believes this cultural demise began when prayer was taken out of public schools. “Unless we return to the …

That’s not gonna happen. But Klein probably won’t complain.

After a cell phone video of New York school bus monitor Karen Klein being cruelly harassed by students went viral, one guy thought it would be nice to create a small vacation fund for the beleaguered woman. That was two days ago. At this writing over $224,000 has poured in. Klein, who lives near Rochester, has been deluged with media …

The Empire State Pride Agenda is thrilled. Via press release: The New York State Senate, under the leadership of Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, and the State Assembly, under the leadership of Speaker Sheldon Silver, and with the tireless advocacy of Senator Steve Saland and Assemblymember Danny O’Donnell, passed legislation that will help protect children from bullying and harassment online. …

A panel of judges on the New York Court of Appeals has unanimously overturned a lower court and ruled that if an HIV+ person spits on or bites somebody, his saliva cannot be considered a “deadly weapon or dangerous instrument.” David Plunkett was serving a 10-year sentence for punching and biting a police officer. The incident occurred in 2006 when …

Clip description: On June 6, 2012, a federal judge ruled that a critical section of the so-called “Defense of Marriage Act” (DOMA) unconstitutionally discriminates against married same-sex couples. This decision joins four other federal courts that have struck down DOMA under the federal constitution. The statute had been challenged by Edith “Edie” Windsor, who sued the government for failing to …

Gotham’s tabloids reacted with horror this week at the SHOCKING news that Gov. Cuomo has launched a makeover of the state’s iconic “I ♥ NY” campaign, which is considered to be the most successful tourism slogan in the history of everything. Thanks for breaking New York’s heart, Gov. Cuomo. The governor ripped the ♥ out of “I ♥ NY” in …

A New York state appeals court ruled today that falsely calling somebody “gay” can longer be considered slander. The court says that although falsely calling someone gay or lesbian has for decades been grounds for slander, that’s no longer the case because being gay is no longer seen by society as negative. The decision Thursday involves the case of a …

New York GOP Assemblyman James Conte wants to make it illegal to leave anonymous comments on the internet. SRSLY. Wired weighs in: Republican Assemblyman Jim Conte said the legislation would cut down on “mean-spirited and baseless political attacks” and “turns the spotlight on cyberbullies by forcing them to reveal their identity.” Had the internet been around in the late 1700s, …

Yesterday Gov. Cuomo signed a bill to move New York’s primary to Thursday, September 13th. Because from now on we can’t do anything official on any September 11th. “I believe that Sept. 11 is a day that people should reflect on what happened,” the assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, said last week, as the issue was being discussed. He added that …

Former NY Sen. Pedro Espada, currently on trial for embezzling truckloads of money from a Bronx health clinic, appeared outside the courthouse yesterday to brandish a rosary in order to ward off the “evil spirits” that have overtaken the jurors in his case. As jurors in the federal embezzlement trial of former State Senator Pedro Espada Jr. indicated Thursday that …

The New York state Assembly has approved the Gender Expression and Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA) five times. And four times the bill has died in the state Senate. Will attempt number five be the one? “I believe the votes are there. The challenge is getting a vote in the Senate. Folks are going to support expanded equal rights if they’re forced …

“Forget about being politically correct by being Pro-Choice. Let me tell you something: A) Hitler was pro-choice. He chose to send the Jews to Auschwitz. That was not their choice that was Hitler’s choice. B) Murderers, assassins and criminals are pro-choice. They choose to put a gun to your head and take your life. That is not your choice. That …

Not that very many of those reading this here post will be voting. RIGHT?