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06.19.2009 2:30pm EDT
(New York) Though she has not accepted defeat, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn was less optimistic when talking about the future of marriage equality the state of New York. Quinn made her remarks in response to the recent upheaval in the New York state senate at the city council’s annual gay pride celebration, which she hosted.
“I don’t know if we’re going to win this year,” Quinn while speaking at the celebration last night. “But I do know we’re incredibly close.”Quinn spoke to the Advocate after the event and said that her remarks were not meant to be a sign of defeat, but rather that “everything is up in the air in Albany” and she is “not trying to prepare the community for a loss.”
Quinn’s remarks are notable for being much less optimistic than remarks she made several weeks ago in a press conference to members of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, which 365Gay reported on.
“I don’t know it will pass – I work for the City Council, not the State Senate – but I think it will,” Quinn said at the press conference.
You can find the full Advocate story here.
There is a better way to be more optimistic about our human rights. Its called revolution. We have waited over 41 years after Dr. King’s death, like the good gays that we are. Waiting for justice, but in reality getting more intolerance, more half-ass laws, and more presidents that refer our marriages to that of pedophilia and incest. I think this country is long over due for a revolution. King fought for us and his family continues to fight for us today. Its time we take that fight one step further. If our government wont see us as the human beings we are, then we make them see us as such. It’s time we stand up even louder, and more threatening and show the world that we will no longer wait for we have seen the seeds of time used more by those of ill will to sow such seeds of intolerance, prejudice, and bigotry, than those of good will to grow seeds of acceptance, tolerance, and open mindedness.