Mayor Bloomberg Powerfully Calls for Marriage-Equality

Run time: 17:58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37IJW9H08N4   Posted on YouTube: May 26, 2011 By YouTube Member: mayorbloomberg Views on YouTube: 15   Posted on DU: May 26, 2011 By DU Member: tomm2thumbs Views on DU: 490

 
a few excerpts:

'it's just none of the government's business who you love...'

'In our Democracy, near-equality is NO-equality.'

'Tonight, two New Yorkers who are in a committed relationship will come home, cook dinner, help their kids with their homework and turn in for the night. They want desperately to be married – not for the piece of paper they will get. Not for the ceremony or the reception or the wedding cake. But for the recognition that the lifelong commitment they have made to each other is not less than anyone else’s and not second-class in any way. And they want it not just for themselves – but for their children. They want their children to know that their family is as healthy and legitimate as all other families.'

'There is no retreating to a past that has disappeared. There is no holding back a wave that has crested. And there is no denying a freedom that belongs to us all. The time has come for us to fulfill the dreams that exploded onto Sheridan Square 42 years ago: to allow thousands of men and women to become full members of the American family, and to take the next step on the inspired journey our founding fathers first began.'


... link to full transcript below

http://www.scribd.com/doc/56399092/Bloomberg-Speech

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maybe this Independent can open up a few closed minds.... (one can dream)