Yesterday was Gay Day for hundreds of New Yorkers who were finally able to tie the knot legally. But it wasn't all adorable photo ops. Oh, no. There were protests, too. And now there is a lawsuit trying to overturn the law that made Gay Day possible in the first place.
At yesterday's protests no less than Pentecostal minister and State Senator Ruben Diaz, Sr, spoke in Spanish and promised to file lawsuits to try and stop the gay weddings. "Everything they're doing today is criminal and it's wrong," he said. And as far as his promise goes he wasn't lying. Today the group New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms filed suit seeking "to preserve not only marriage as the union of one woman to one man, but also our constitutional liberties by acting as a check on an out-of-control political process that was willing to pass a bill regardless of how many laws and rules it violated.”
What do they think was so wrong in the way that New York got itself marriage equality? Well, let's see! First up, they are unamused that New York City's mayor had a closed-door meeting with Republican senators "in violation of the Open Meetings Law." Further, they believe that Bloomberg promised at that meeting to make large donations to any GOP senator who voted for the bill (shocking!). They say that lobbyists and the public were shut out of the process and "denied access to elected representatives," and finally they say that Cuomo violated the constitutionally mandated three-day review period "by unjustifiably issuing a message of necessity." Apparently the impending end of the the legislative session was not valid enough a reason?
Lawsuit against NY Gay Marriage
Anyway, the Cuomo administration, at least, doesn't seem very worried. Like, at all. “The plaintiffs lack a basic understanding of the laws of the state of New York,” Josh Vlasto, a spokesman for Cuomo, told Bloomberg. “The suit is without merit.”
And while the suit waits the marriages go on!
