Proponents of marriage equality will hold a sunset vigil outside Sen. Thomas Morahan's Airport Executive Park office in Nanuet between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. Sunday. Neither Morahan nor his staff will be at the office on Sunday.
But it would be nice if the Senator would face his constituents. Morahan's original statement was against gay marriage quietly tucked away in a Lohud.com blog and not many people knew about it. I'm sure that there are a lot of people that would like to talk to him now.
Morahan was not available for comment Thursday, but his spokesman rejected claims by advocates of same-sex marriage that the senator simply voted along party lines.
This is crap. At least the few Democrats that voted against this attempted to legitimize their vote with Senator Diaz's speech (which fell flat). Morahan votes lockstep with his party every time they know the vote is going to be close. After about a dozen or so Democrats debated, the Republican Party didn't even bother. Why couldn't they explain themselves in the State Senate chambers? Because they didn't want videos showing how bigoted their comments are.
Here are the facts: Not one Republican voted for Marriage Equality and none of them had the cojones to even debate the issue.
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This afternoon, State Senator Thomas P. Morahan (SD-38) emphatically disregarded the civil rights of his constituency by voting against the Marriage Equailty bill before the State Senate. While many Democrats gave emotional and logical pleas for its passage, Morahan and other Republicans did not even feel they had to legitimize their reasoning, they didn't join in the debate. And unfortunately, Morahan and 37 other State Senators did not bother to weigh their votes against the Constitution, nor did they didn't legislate for their constituencies.