Gay Marriage Approved by New York Senate

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by preciousjeni

My excitement is tempered by Huffington Post's total screw up! They broke the story and then retracted mysteriously. I'm still not convinced it's officially, but my Facebook people are saying it is!

Some news sources started announcing that it had passed when the religious exception amendment to the bill passed. Once that was passed, it was assured that the Marriage Equality bill was going to pass as well.

I was out last night and the celebration was pretty intense--in part because it's Pride weekend here in NYC and a lot of people are out partying anyway. Lady Gaga's "Born this Way" was blasting out of cars and apartments, and people who knew were psyched.

[preciousjeni]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

Some news sources started announcing that it had passed when the religious exception amendment to the bill passed. Once that was passed, it was assured that the Marriage Equality bill was going to pass as well.

In the case of Huffington Post, they actually announced it as having passed, then removed the article from the website and replaced it with the religious exemption announcement. I saved both articles for posterity, because the first one is no longer available on the site. Now, there's a longer version of the first article that replaced both previous articles, which I have also saved.