New York Faith Groups Campaign to Block Gay Marriage

Dan82 · May 6, 2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/n...h-groups-work-to-block-gay-marriage.html?_r=4

Evangelical, Roman Catholic and Orthodox Jewish leaders, determined to head off momentum for same-sex marriage in Albany, say they are mobilizing an extensive campaign to block legislation that would make New York the sixth state to allow gay men and lesbians to wed.

“Our pastors are fired up by the governor’s assault on marriage,” said the Rev. Jason J. McGuire, executive director of New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, a lobbying group that represents evangelical churches in the state. “We’re already in gear.”

Opponents of same-sex marriage have already financed a wave of 500,000 automated calls urging voters to contact undecided lawmakers. And the traditional religious coalition that has fought same-sex marriage in previous legislative sessions now counts among its members Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, who played only a muted role the last time the issue was debated, in 2009, when he had just been appointed to lead the Catholic Archdiocese of New York...

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Emberstone · May 6, 2011

the constitution says you can practice in the privacy of your own life your faith... it does not say you have the right to force your beliefs down my throat by legislating your bigottry into law... infact, the constitution is clear goverment cannot legislate religious dogma into law.

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