Gays Can’t Wed in New York, So a Politician Won’t Either

Dan82 · Jul 10, 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/10/nyregion/10stringer.html?_r=1

Scott M. Stringer, the Manhattan borough president, buys his bagels at H&H, his groceries at Fairway and his coffee at Lenny’s (Starbucks is, after all, a Seattle company). He roots for the Jets, exercises in Riverside Park and pops into the Museum of Natural History.

The idea of doing anything outside New York City seems alien to him.

“I can’t imagine not being in this city,” he said over coffee.

But after five decades of municipal fidelity, Mr. Stringer is refusing to do something rather momentous in the city of his birth: marry.

He and his fiancée, Elyse Buxbaum, have decided to wed in Connecticut this year in what they described as a protest of New York’s failure to legalize gay marriage.

In the half year since the New York State Senate defeated a bill to allow same-sex marriage, a parade of politicians have proclaimed their anger at the inability of gay couples to marry in the state.

But Mr. Stringer, a potential candidate for mayor in 2013, may be the first to boycott New York’s marriage bureau — an act that he hopes will encourage his constituents (and fellow lawmakers) to get married in states like Connecticut, Vermont and Massachusetts that have sanctioned gay marriage...
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theJosephDean · Jul 10, 2010

Wow, that's pretty noble of him :]

Revan · Jul 10, 2010

Bravo

Alex19 · Jul 11, 2010

i wanna vote for him lol hes a pretty smart guy

blankpaper · Jul 13, 2010

This is one cool politician, and you can't say that too often!!

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