Friday, June 24, 2011

No balls for Greg

My e-mail sent today to Senator Greg Ball:


Senator Ball :

You could have been a hero.  You appeared to be willing to check your personal beliefs at the Senate door and have a legitimate conversation about marriage equality.

Instead, you allowed your personal beliefs and career to trump the rights of your fellow New Yorkers.

You asked New Yorkers how they felt - by Twitter and Facebook.  Responses to both were overwhelmingly pro-equality. 

You obviously never intended to listen at all.

You chose to use your power and influence to try to keep a subset of tax paying New Yorkers as second class citizens - while creating unnecessary protections for tax-exempt religious institutions.

I hope. Senator, that you will remember this day and understand the slap in the face you have delivered to millions of New Yorkers who support marriage equality.  

Thanks for nothing, Senator.

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