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The Burning Bush of Same Sex Marriage
By Michael Boyajian
I heard a very interesting baptismal sermon by Father Richard Visconti of the Caroline Church on Long Island this past weekend. He spoke of the risks we take in life. There is monetary risk, recreational risk like bungee jumping, occupational risk like being a fireman, and there is ideological risk which he specified by mentioning same sex marriage.
Senate Candidate Launches Campaign of New Ideas
By Michael Boyajian
Didi Barrett will make it official as she declares her candidacy against State Senator Stephen Saland in the Hudson Valley’s 41st Senate District on this sunny Wednesday in April.
Rising Tide for Same Sex Marriage
By Michael Boyajian
The Fishkill Democratic Committee gathered recently for its monthly meeting and to hear from Didi Barrett who is expected to run against New York State Senator Stephen Saland an opponent of same sex marriage. Didi Barrett is important to the gay community because she is a candidate who has pledged to support same sex marriage and because she is the first of many candidates who will ultimately be running this year in support of marriage equality making it a movement unseen since the days of abolition. After the debacle of same sex marriage in the state senate last year the gay community vowed to field candidates against all those who had opposed the measure.
By Michael Boyajian
Marriage Equality New York is hosting a party to thank their District Coordinators for their support in lobbying state senators in their districts for the recent drive to legalize same sex marriage in New York. I was a District Coordinator and considered a straight ally and assigned to Senator Saland. I tried to convince him of our view point but he seemed to have objections on religious grounds. MENY is seeking civil marriage ceremonies not religious ones by the way.
The party will be at the Central Park West apartment of Betsy Malcolm. I am hoping Michael Sabatino and Robert Voorheis will be attending. They are the poster boys of the same sex marriage movement. Their story begins as choir singers along with Michael’s late mother at the local Catholic church. One day Michael and Robert get married out of state and when they returned they are asked to leave the choir. So to make a long story short Michael, Robert and Michael’s elderly mom, all lifelong Catholics, are now singing for the local Episcopalian choir.