I hope. I hope. I hope.

[angledge]

I'm having a slow day at work, so I'm livestreaming the NY State Senate proceedings, hoping that one more Republican senator will find it in his heart to do the right thing & give NY State marriage equality. I hope.

The NYS Senate vote is obviously getting a lot of news coverage today, including a nasty little poll from radio station WBEN in Buffalo. Four choices out of five allow you to express exactly WHY gay marriage is icky, & the fifth choice lets you say "Eh, whatever". Despite that in-built bias, look at the results! I hope.

And then someone linked this incredible video, made from a speech made by Harvey Milk. And I'm nearly in tears, here at my desk. What would Harvey Milk have become if he hadn't been gunned down? He saw things so clearly - not just for LGBT issues, but for all the "us's" out there. And the hopeful part is - gunning him down didn't shut him up. Didn't work on Martin Luther King Jr. either. Maybe decency, & equality, & love are things that can't be gunned down, not for long. I hope.

Comments

[lovellama.livejournal.com]

I'm "ok" with gay marriage? WTF with the quotation marks?!? :P

[angledge.livejournal.com]

There's something wrong with the poll (technically, not just the way it's worded). If you hit Refresh a few times on the page, the percentages & vote counts change - both up AND down.

Also, an alert Twitter user caught them futzing with the results:

http://wnymedia.net/buffalopundit/2011/06/wben-against-really-against-super-zomg-against-or-all-of-the-above/