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Posted: July 25, 2011
SSM opponents call to “Let The People Vote” 7/25/11
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On Sunday, same-sex couples from Niagara Falls to Staten Island got married on the first day same-sex marriage became legal in New York. The state is now the sixth and largest in the nation to allow same-sex couples to marry.

New York’s State Senate passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage last month, and Governor Andrew Cuomo promptly signed it into law. But now, its opponents are vowing political payback.

In the middle of New York City’s 484 wedding celebrations, protesters were out in force in Manhattan, Albany, Buffalo, and Rochester, speaking out against what they brand the state’s legislative rewrite of marriage. Thousands marched, in “Let the People Vote” rallies organized by the National Organization for Marriage, and demanded that same-sex marriage be put on the ballot for voters to decide.

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