memeorandum: New York governor signs same-sex marriage bill into law (CNN)

2:50 AM ET, June 25, 2011

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Gay Marriage Approved by N.Y. Senate — ALBANY — Lawmakers voted late Friday to legalize same-sex marriage, making New York the largest state where gay and lesbian couples will be able to wed, and giving the national gay-rights movement new momentum from the state where it was born.

Discussion: TPMDC, Reuters, msnbc.com, Outside the Beltway, MoveOn.Org, The Reality-Based Community, Towleroad News #gay, ACS Blog, Truthdig and Feministing

City Room:

Consensus Reached on Religious Exemptions in Gay Marriage Bill — ALBANY — The Cuomo administration and legislative leaders have reached agreement on language to protect religious institutions from obligations to recognize same-sex marriage, two people involved in the negotiations said on Friday afternoon …

Discussion: AMERICAblog Gay, Poliglot, LGBT | POV, Taylor Marsh, Runnin' Scared, Hot Air, The Raw Story, Pam's House Blend, LGBTQ Nation, New York Magazine, Towleroad News #gay and Politics on the Hudson

NY Daily News:

Gay marriage legal in New York State after Senate passes historic bill 33-29 — ALBANY - New York made history last night as the State Senate voted “aye” on gay marriage. — Senators passed the bill 33 to 29 as the normally somnolent chambers erupted in a raucous chant of “USA! USA!”

Discussion: The Atlantic Online

John McCormack / Weekly Standard:

New York Conservative Party Chairman Predicts Passage of Same Sex Marriage Bill — Mike Long, the chairman of the New York Conservative Party and a leading opponent of the bill to institue same sex marriage in New York, tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD that the bill will likely pass “by the end of the night.”

Discussion: Towleroad News #gay, ThinkProgress and Gawker

CNN:

New York governor signs same-sex marriage bill into law — Albany, New York (CNN) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the state's marriage equality bill hours after it passed the Republican-controlled Senate on Friday night, making it the sixth state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers

John Burger / The Daily Register:

Archbishop Dolan on Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Vote — Speaks of David and Goliath fight, Catholic politicians and the ‘heresy’ of ‘personally opposed but,’ and the role of conscience. — New York state has been teetering on the edge of redefining marriage. With just days, and possibly hours …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, The Reality-Based Community and Joe. My. God.

Reid J. Epstein / The Politico:
Cuomo signs N.Y. gay marriage bill

Discussion: The Moderate Voice and LGBTQ Nation

New York Times:
N.Y. State Senate to Vote on Same-Sex Marriage

Discussion: Queerty, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Gawker, Sky Dancing, The Volokh Conspiracy and Towleroad News #gay

ThinkProgress:
New York Passes Same Sex Marriage Bill: Population Living Under Equality More Than Doubles

Discussion: Towleroad News #gay and The BRAD BLOG

Mary Snow / CNN: New York legislators approve same-sex marriage

Nick Reisman / Capital Tonight:
When Will Same-Sex Marriage Be Voted On?

Discussion: LGBTQ Nation, The Lonely Conservative and AMERICAblog Gay

Reid J. Epstein / The Politico:
Gay marriage bill moves to New York senate floor

Discussion: LGBTQ Nation, Las Vegas Blog, Salon and Outside the Beltway

Brian Beutler / TPMDC:

Top Dems Provide Fresh Detail On High-Income Tax Proposal That Led GOP To Abandon Debt Talks — Two of the top Democrats in Congress are calling out their Republican counterparts for abandoning high-stakes debt talks, and have provided new details about the tax proposals that sent the GOP packing.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Daily Kos, The Democratic Daily, The Mahablog, Eschaton and The Hill

Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:

GOP Rep. McCarthy to Obama: ‘Get off the golf course’ and ‘get engaged’ — The No. 3 Republican leader in the House took President Obama to task Friday, claiming he should put the golf clubs down and get directly involved in the budget talks with Congress. — “He's got to get off …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Flap's Blog and HotAirPundit

Daniel Strauss / The Hill: Sen. Sessions challenges Obama to make debt-ceiling talks public

The Huffington Post:
Obama, Boehner Held Secret Debt Ceiling Meeting At White House

Discussion: TPMDC, Washington Monthly and New York Times

Catherine Dodge / Bloomberg:
House's McCarthy Says Obama Must ‘Show Leadership’ in Deficit Negotiations

Discussion: The Page

New York Times:
Their Temper Tantrum

Discussion: Agence France Presse, The Hill, ThinkProgress, News Desk, FiveThirtyEight, Swampland, The Caucus, The Mahablog, Washington Post and Washington Monthly

Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Republicans: Walkout from Biden-led negotiations was long planned

Discussion: Sky Dancing, CNN, The Caucus, The Politico, Washington Post, Mother Jones, Daily Kos, Truthdig, No More Mister Nice Blog and ThinkProgress

Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:

Exclusive: Top U.S. admiral admits we are trying to kill Qaddafi — The top U.S. admiral involved in the Libya war admitted to a U.S. congressman that NATO forces are trying to kill Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi. The same admiral also said he anticipated the need for ground troops …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, BLACKFIVE, ThinkProgress, Taylor Marsh, Pajamas Media, National Review and The Other McCain

Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
Despite vote, majority of Congressmen want to defund the Libya war

Discussion: Weekly Standard, New York Times, Cato @ Liberty and Gallup

The Politico:
Libya votes show House divided

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Reuters, Mudville Gazette, Comments from Left Field, Firedoglake, The Heritage Foundation, AmSpecBlog and Balloon Juice

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Plurality of Americans love Gadaffi

Discussion: New York Times, The Sundries Shack, Weasel Zippers, Top of the Ticket, Outside the Beltway and Taylor Marsh

Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
President ‘becoming an absolute monarch’ on war powers, Dem says

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, The Nation, The Caucus, Illinois Review, Don Surber, The Lonely Conservative and Associated Press

Katya Wachtel / CNBC:

Here's What Happened at That Big Dinner With Obama and the Hedge Funders — Last night Obama headed to the Upper East Side to wine and dine Wall Street. — The DNC fundraiser at tony restaurant Daniel cost attendees $35,800 each, and a source told Ben White at Morning Money that the event netted $2.4 million.

Discussion: Firedoglake, Hullabaloo, The Lonely Conservative and DealBook

Ben White / The Politico:

First look: Fear over Greece grows - New this morning: Bernanke numbers drop - Hot this morning: Oil bounces back - Boehner under pressure — MIND MELD: WHY WALL STREET HATES WASHINGTON - Bring up Washington's understanding of financial markets around Wall Street and you get rolled eyes and four-letter words.

Discussion: Bloomberg

G-A-Y / Good As You:

Photo: Stonewall. Right now. 42 years later. — From G-A-Y pal Scott Wooledge: — [@Clarknt67] — Chills. — Another view, courtesy of Mel England: — [@melengland]

Discussion: Crooks and Liars

A.Killough / CNN:

GOP candidates talk abortion — (CNN) - In a presidential race thus far centered on the economy, nearly half of the 2012 GOP field took a break Friday to turn the election's spotlight on abortion. — Five candidates appeared-in person or via Skype-at the National Right to Life convention in Jacksonville …

Discussion: LifeNews.com, Hot Air, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Little Green Footballs and msnbc.com

Jordan Howard / The Huffington Post:
Bachmann Takes Swipe At Romney On Abortion

Discussion: The Colorado Independent

JSOnline:

Walker cancels budget bill-signing at firm run by felon — By Daniel Bice of the Journal Sentinel — Gov. Scott Walker has called off plans to sign the 2011-'13 budget bill at a private Green Bay-area company run by an executive with six felony convictions, a spokesman announced today.

Discussion: ThinkProgress and TPMDC

Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
Scott Walker To Sign Budget Bill At Business Of Convicted Tax Felon

Discussion: Appleton Post Crescent, The Impolitic, Prairie Weather and Daily Kos

Richard Natale / Variety:

‘Columbo’ star Peter Falk dies at 83 — Veteran actor own five Emmys, four for popular detective role — Peter Falk, the Emmy- and Tony-winning stage, screen and TV actor, best known to world audiences as the always-underestimated police detective in the long-running telepic series …

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, skippy the bush kangaroo, EW.com, The BRAD BLOG, The Lonely Conservative and Joe. My. God.

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:

Reaping what they've sown — Georgia Republicans recently passed a very harsh anti-immigrant measure into law, successfully driving a lot of undocumented workers out of the state. Republicans who championed the measure said the new law would improve Georgia's economy.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice and ThinkProgress

The Official Google Blog:

An update on Google Health and Google PowerMeter — In the coming months, we're going to retire two products that didn't catch on the way we would have hoped, but did serve as influential models: Google Health (retiring January 1, 2012; data available for download through January 1, 2013) …