D**S 发帖数: 24887 | 1 这样的报道,可以让人脑门流冷汗:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/27/brian-sims-doma_n_3513
An openly gay lawmaker was silenced by colleagues on the Pennsylvania House
floor Thursday when he attempted to speak about the Supreme Court's decision
to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act.
State Rep. Brian Sims (D-Philadelphia) took to the House floor on Thursday
to discuss the high court's landmark ruling, which found the federal law
barring the government from recognizing same-sex marriages legalized by
states to be unconstitutional. However, as WHYY News and Philly.com report,
Sims' remarks were blocked by several state lawmakers using a procedural
maneuver.
One of those lawmakers, conservative state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler),
told WHYY that he believed Sims' comments would be a violation of "God's law
."
"I did not believe that as a member of that body that I should allow someone
to make comments such as he was preparing to make that ultimately were just
open rebellion against what the word of God has said, what God has said,
and just open rebellion against God's law," Metcalfe said.
Sims said he had no intention of criticizing gay marriage detractors, and
had only planned to highlight the importance of the court's ruling.
"I wasn't planning on chastising anybody. I wasn't planning on discussing
how far we have to come in Pennsylvania or that we really have no civil
rights in Pennsylvania," Sims said.
Two other Democrats attempted to speak in support of Sims, but they too were
blocked.
At the end of the session, Sims rose to speak again, criticizing Metcalfe
and others who had blocked him.
"A few months ago I reminded this House that we put our hands on the Bible
and swore to uphold the Constitution, not the other way around. What I did
was in no way against the law of any God," he said, referencing a speech he
made in April. "I can't call anyone a bigot, a homophobe or racist, but
language used against me does not live up to the standards of this body."
Sims, who entered office in January, is the first openly gay lawmaker
elected to the state legislature.
On Thursday, Sims and fellow Democratic Rep. Steve McCarter vowed to
introduce a measure in the state House allowing same-sex marriage in
Pennsylvania.
"LGBT Pennsylvanians are seeing their neighbors in New York, Maryland and
Delaware, among other states, now qualify for the approximately 1,000
federal rights and benefits that come with civil marriage and they are
increasingly asking why they don't have those same rights, as well as the
state rights and benefits," Sims said in a statement. | D**S 发帖数: 24887 | 2 北起缅因,南至哥伦比亚特区,同性婚姻合法化“断”在了宾西法尼亚和新泽西二州。
新泽西情况特殊,完全是大胖子州长处于自己的政治算计,不惜牺牲本周数以万计同志
的结婚权利。宾州却是看起来也许真是保守势力太过强大了,让人无法预计什么时候才
会有突破。
这个喜欢以Keystone自称的州,好像在同性婚姻议题上也显现出自己的重要性(以负面
的方式)。 |
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