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D-Day for Marriage in New York

In New York, as in the two most recent states where gay marriage has failed, we were told well in advance that it was a “done deal.” Once again, that prediction was proven not-quite-right as the New York Conservative Party, New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedom, and the churches — particularly the Catholic Church under Archbishop Dolan and the black churches — became fully engaged.  Next, in a stroke of remarkable good luck (some would prefer the term “providence”), NFL star David Tyree has effectively launched a one-celebrity (so far) movement for protecting marriage. Many of you probably saw David Tyree’s game-winning football-crushed-to-helmet catch in Super Bowl 42. Today might turn out to be his most effective Hail Mary completion to date. Last Friday Tyree taped an exclusive interview with the National Organization for Marriage (where I work) which spread like wildfire over the weekend, often by media outlets that believed they were putting his “bigotry” on display for a wider audience. I call it free air time.  The outcome of the New York vote — if it even happens — still hangs in the balance. But if the state senate adjourns without voting on the bill or votes it down when it is brought up, a coalition of conservatives, people of faith, and one courageous football player will have defeated one of Governor Cuomo’s top priorities, Mayor Bloomberg’s deep pockets, and just about every PSA-taping celebrity in the Empire State who owns a webcam. For gay-marriage supporters, if they fail in New York today, it’s going to feel like a very long summer.

The government can't grant gays the right to marry.

It does not have the authority to force people to recognize as true something that is not true: gay unions are not the same in kind as married couples, and they aren't - and can't ever become - a "family", except through lies and fraud committed at the expense of the very children they claim to "love".

A child "having two mommies" is not the same as a child who is allowed to know and love both his real parents.

Healthy families are not built out of children doing what is right for their parents. It's supposed to be the grownups who do the care-taking, and the little ones are the ones who are entitled to be emotionally needy and immature. Knowing the difference is what growing up is really all about.

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A Dick Jones handout picture of the longest burning light bulb released by www.centennialbulb.org taken Feb. 25, 2001, at the Livermore Fire Station #6 in Livermore, Calif., is the world's oldest lightbulb. It turns 110 years-old on June 18. The bulb first lit up in 1901 before the Titanic sank and before the San Francisco earthquake in 1906. The lightbulb has its own profile on Facebook and is watched over by a webcam which offers round-the-clock proof of its continued activity.

Wow, and I thought the 7-year bulbs that I bought the other day were a good deal. Check out the bulb's Facebook page here and the webcam here . Here is a list of the nearest competitors according to the Centennial Bulb's website.

The Second longest bulb was listed in the 1970 Guinness Book under the heading Most Durable says that "on 21 Sept 1908 a stagehand named Barry Burke at the Byers Opera House, Fort Worth, Texas screwed in a new light bulb and that it was still burning". The building was renamed the Palace Theatre, and the light was known as the Palace Bulb ever since. It now resides in the Stockyards Museum, and will have been burning for 100 years Sept of 2008. A website is in the works.

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