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July 09, 2009, 06:33:17 AM
We deserve better
Volume 79, Number 5 | July 8 - 14, 2009
The Villager
http://www.thevillager.com/villager_323/editorial.html

As polls continued to show increases in support for marriage equality and transgender rights among New Yorkers, there was a growing sense of inevitability about these issues. During the spring, four states in rapid succession — Iowa, Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire — adopted marriage equality. Dean Skelos, the Republican leader in our state Senate, said his members could vote their consciences on gay marriage, that they would not be held to a uniform party position. And then, early in June, Joe Bruno, the retired Republican majority leader who for years had been a bulwark against timely gay-rights advances — each time holding out for some political trade or another — voluntarily came forward to say he now supported gay marriage. "It's time," he said simply.
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