Senators,
September 11 2009 my beloved city was terrorized in ways that will effect our world forever. This atrocity was symbolic by location, New York a city where people of all backgrounds can come together and excell in respective dreams. New York is a city where it is not about you, it is about your passion, dream, yearning for something more than the hand that was dealt to you. They hit our freedom of color, religion, integration, sex, love, prosperity, hate and hope. We rallied together as our true nature intended, we bonded as one people and awoke from shock proceeding to prosperity and even further diversity. How can this city, the beacon of freedom for all people, deny! How can we look ourselves in the mirror and believe we advocate freedom? Is it so much to ask, to let people who love each other to be together, to love and to hold forever? Is it so much for you Mr senator to shamelessly deny freedom to people? When I was eighteen I was on the subway and coming home with my boyfriend at the time, we were both drunk and leaning on each other, not once in my entire train ride did some person think to say, stop being a fag! this city, our city! How can we not be ashamed? How can we call ourselves enlightened? How can we call ourselves open minded? Are we the same people that do not accept Muslims because some of them are radicals? Are we the same people that judge a colored person based on there color? This is not our city this is not the dream that is called New York or America. I am ashamed every day i pass on the BQUE and see the blank spot in the financial district, I am sorry to those that died we did not keep freedom in your name.
I sign with a broken heart,
jake
- Stop an eviction when the landlord says unmarried adults cannot live together
- Get social security benefits the couple earned through involuntary deductions to their paychecks
- Get family medical leave to care for an ill partner
- Make medical decisions for a partner in a coma
- Visit a dying partner in the hospital
- Carry out the wishes of a deceased partner for a memorial service and epitaph
- Keep the home and personal possessions after a partner dies without a will and unknown relatives appear with a moving truck
Tags: New York, Same-Sex Mar, Same-Sex Marriage