Comments on: Bloomberg defends Fenty on gay marriage

By: Andy Humm

Andy Humm — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:56:57 +0000

I’m a New Yorker and an activist here since 1975 and Mike Bloomberg is the reason gay couples cannot marry in New York. He appealed a court order to issue marriage licenses to gay couples in 2005 and quoted Leviticus in court papers in his successful appeal overturning the order. (Note that Jerry Brown and Gov. Arnold in California refuse to appeal the great Prop 8 decision we just got in California.) Mike is terrible on a range of gay issues and for those of you who think he makes New York work well, his school reforms have just been exposed as yielding no progress for students on objective tests. Yet his public relations machine makes out-of-towners believe he is doing a good job. Wake up!

By: Frankie James

Frankie James — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:23:30 +0000

Peter the Drama Queen -

I hardly think “our community seems to be under seige.” Do you think by the Mayor speaking out that this, “seige” would end? Clutch your pearls honey.

He said he would sign and he did. What do you guys want the man to do, hold it in his hands and walk it through?

Give me a break. Fenty has done so much for all the wards of this city and people don’t like his attitude or demeanor so they say Vote Grey. Ignorant!

Didn’t people say they thought GW was the type of man they could have a beer with, well look what that got us.

Results matter. What else does the Gay Community need that we don’t already have on the local level in DC? Nothing… we have it good here.

Stop walking the streets at night, take cabs, go in groups… bet some of the “seige” would stop… hehehe.

Grey can make a decision Fenty has made many great decisions already and all the citizens of DC have benefitted greatly.

By: customartist

customartist — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:54:05 +0000

Steve,

Your comments are appreciated.

Slightly off the main topic, I cannot miss the opportunity to ask you, Where IS the Psychological community with some/any Preventative Medicine, if you will, as it relates to educating the general public about Their Roles in opression of Gays, and the psychological negative effects? Occasionally we hear a simple general statement of “This is perfectly normal” but, if there is anything other than that, I am completely unaware.

Here we have one of the highest rates of suiscide, etc. and yet we receive little, in my estimation, education of the public on the issue. Ahhh, if it were only breast cancer…

Just because it is unpopular, some, at least, professionals refrain. I see Clergy in the same boat. Just keep preaching that which the congregation wants to hear, which pays the rent, not what they Really need to hear.

Please take no offense.

Seriously,

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What’s Cookin’ 8/18/10 | The Front Burner — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:30:18 +0000

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By: SteveMD2

SteveMD2 — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 05:41:26 +0000

Bloomberg is an independent who has done a really good job of making NYC work better, while ruling from the middle, rather then being the conservative ideolog so many rich people turn out to become.

And as a str8 married guy for 42 years, and a psychologist, I know the personal pain so many gay people have suffered with, due to the people who always have to have someone to hate to sell their anything but christian – christian brand of love.

And I can’t comprehend how gay marriage hurts married people, except that my ad hoc data says that gay people rarely divorce, resulting in terrible embarrassment to the str8 churches whose endless divorces are legendary.

I gather that both Fenty and his challenger support the gay marriage law now in effect. So to me, in many ways the issue is moot, except for who I think will do a better job in managing the city and its real problems.

with both candidates supportive of gay marriage, all I can say is may the best man win.

Its about time that America do what Western Europe (all except italy and greece) have done re recognizing gay couples relationships as that of love and commitment, and valuable to society at large.

And even Catholic Latin America is now turning a new corner. Argentina has marriage. Columbia recognizes gay common law marriage, Equadoe and Uruguay have civil Unions, several other countries are moving forward. And mexico now recognizes mex city gay marriages all over their country and allows adoption.

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Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:56:47 +0000

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By: DC John

DC John — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:40:10 +0000

With all due respect to the Mayor of my home town of New York City…we really do not care at all what you think of the Prince of Pennsylvania Avenue. We can make our own decisions, thank you very much. Take the next northbound Acela!
To Prince Adrian: you really must be hard up needing to import friends to urge us to vote for you. Hope your resume is updated. Maybe you can get a job in NYC in January when your term in office officially ends.

By: Rick Rosendall

Rick Rosendall — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:27:57 +0000

Peter, let’s give credit to Adrian for his AG’s superb job of defending the marriage equality law before the Board of Elections and Ethics and in court. But the thrust of this article does seem irrelevant, since Fenty’s main rival, Vincent Gray, supported marriage equality. Bloomberg hardly needed to take notice of the ineffectual “defeat them all” types.

By: Peter Rosenstein

Peter Rosenstein — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:39:59 +0000

Interesting statement by Bloomberg. Many of us know we don’t have to defend Fenty on his stance on marriage- we are asking where he was during the entire debate. I applaud Michael Bloomberg for speaking out on Gay Marriage- Adrian Fenty never did. He simply said he would sign the bill when it got to his desk and he did. He never testified for it and never spoke out during the entire Council debate. No one in his entire administration bothered to testify in favor of marriage-equality. Surely they could have joined the other 260 people that testified on the issue.

Just as he didn’t speak out on marriage-equality Adrian Fenty still refuses to speak out on hate crimes. There have been at least 8 hate crimes committed in DC in the last two months, our community seems to be under seige. Not once have we heard from the Mayor. He couldn’t even get the words “hate crimes” out of his mouth when asked directly about them at the forum sponsored by DC MAP and CAGLCC last week.

So maybe Mr. Bloomberg should give Fenty some lessons on speaking our and using the bully pulpit that a Mayor, especially one in the Capital of the United States has.

So Mr. Bloomberg, I don’t think the Mayor has to worry about not getting the votes of those in the District that don’t support civil marriage-equality, he won’t get many of the votes in the District from those that do.