Tens of Thousands of New Yorkers Protest Homosexual ‘Marriage’

By The Christian Post on May 18th, 2009

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By Jennifer Riley
Christian Post Reporter
Mon, May. 18 2009 11:36 AM EDT

Tens of thousands of Christians filled several blocks in Manhattan Sunday during a protest against the legalization of gay marriage in New York.

The mostly Latino crowd, which included Democratic State Senator Ruben Diaz, Sr. of the Bronx, who is an evangelical minister, stretched from 35th to 40th Street on 3rd Avenue in New York City.

NY Governor David Paterson (Credit: David Shankbone)
NY Governor David Paterson (Credit: David Shankbone)

Protesters rallied outside the NYC office of Gov. David A. Paterson, who has been pushing passage of the Marriage Equality Act. As they sang and waved Bibles in the air, demonstrators spoke about the need to retain the traditional definition of marriage, according to WNYC New York Public Radio.

“God instituted marriage between man and woman to the fabric of our society,” said the Rev. Daniel Delgado of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, according to Christian Broadcasting Network News.

Organizers say hundreds of churches from Maine to New Jersey from various denominations participated in the event.

Already, the gay marriage bill has easily passed the New York state assembly and now is waiting the vote from the state senate. Thirty-two votes from the state senate are needed for gay marriage to become legal in New York. There are 32 Democrats in the state senate. However, several, including pentecostal pastor Diaz, have stated they will vote against the same-sex marriage bill.

Diaz says there are another six Democrats in the state senate who will not support the bill, according to CBN.

On Sunday afternoon, pro-gay marriage demonstrators also held a separate rally in Manhattan to thank Gov. Paterson for his effort on passing the bill. The pro-gay marriage event was much smaller, but featured celebrities and prominent New York politicians, reported WNYC New York Public radio.

If the bill passes, New York will be the sixth state to legalize gay marriage, joining Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa and Vermont.

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  • BlueStapler
    Protesters or not, CIVIL marriage is a civil right. It should be inclusive of all Americans. Religion should NEVER be used to support unequal civil rights. Discrimination based on religion is still discrimination. Civil marriag is coming soon to a state near you.
  • Civil marriage is something everyone should be entitled to, and in fact everyone is entitled to it, provided they meet the requirements.

    They must be of age, of course, and cannot be a close relative. And the most common-sense one which has been universally recognized (until this insanity of late) throughout all human cultures throughout all human history is the most basic and fundamental requirement: a man and a woman.

    Without either of those, you may have sex, you may have a relationship, you might even have love, but you will never have a genuine marriage.

    Homosexuals have the same right to marry as anyone else. If homosexuals want to marry, they should find someone of the opposite sex so that they meet the most fundamental requirement of marriage, then get married.

    Otherwise, they are ineligible, and no amount of self-deception or state-sponsored delusion will change that. It the state is delusional enough to call a horse a "cat," the people might even allow the state to indulge in such insanity, but that big animal is never going to meow.
  • John
    That's absolutely ridiculous, and completely missing the point. Saying gay couples can't get married is discriminating based on both gender and sexual orientation. And like the Iowa Supreme Court said recently:

    "It is true the marriage statute does not expressly prohibit gay and lesbian persons from marrying; it does, however, require that if they marry, it must be to someone of the opposite sex. Viewed in the complete context of marriage... civil marriage with a person of the opposite sex is as unappealing to a gay or lesbian person as civil marriage with a person of the same sex is to a heterosexual. Thus, the right of a gay or lesbian person under the marriage statute to enter into a civil marriage only with a person of the opposite sex is no right at all... a gay or lesbian person can only gain the same rights under the statute as a heterosexual person by negating the very trait that defines gay and lesbian people as a class- their sexual orientation."

    Lengthy I know, but completely valid.
  • It is irrelevant whether the opposite sex is "appealing" to homosexuals or not. If I go into Burger King and demand a taco because burgers are "unappealing" to me, who's the idiot: me or Burger King.

    If homosexuals want to marry, they should find someone of the opposite sex to marry. Only a mentally unstable person or culture would advocate "changing the menu" to indulge their petulance, and the same is true for a person or culture who insists we change a fundamental human institution and relationship just to help legitimize a sexual practice which can never be legitimate.
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