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Last Wednesday, as the New York State Senate voted down a bill that would have legalized same-sex marriage in New York, they were, in essence, voting to require discrimination in the State of New York. That they did it, in part, with the guiding hand of the Catholic Church–who called the defeat, incredibly, “a victory for the basic building block of our society”–only serves to outline both the violation of principle that constitutes religious meddling in U.S. law, and the wider question the measure raises: Why on earth is something as basic to our democracy as full civil rights coming up for a vote at all?

Much like the ham-fisted revision of California’s constitution that took place earlier this year, in which some 52% of voters, via Proposition 8 (call it “Prop Hate”) were able to gut the Golden State’s constitutional protection of equal rights by disallowing legal marriage for its gay and lesbian citizens, the New York ruling throws the greater movement for civil rights in this country back by some forty years, certainly at least to 1967, when it was still illegal in most states for inter-racial couples to marry, because of so-called “anti-miscegenation” laws. This Wednesday’s vote made a very similar kind of legal discrimination mandatory in the State of New York.

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escuela sin armario

“We want a school to which young people are not afraid of LGTB attend,
where the teacher is free to express their difference,
where the children of families who make the LGTB are so dear
and respected as anyone, where no one breaks there rejection or violence”

Hundreds of thousands have collapsed Saturday at the center of Madrid after singing and dancing multicolored floats and banners for the “emotional-sexual diversity” in education as part of the Gay Pride march.

From the Puerta de Alcalá to Plaza of Spain through the Gran Via, have passed clusters of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transsexuals who came from across Spain to participate in a ride that organizers say is a “political tool” to normalize homosexuality in school.

At 6pm when the march begun, the Minister of Equality, Bibiana Aidoo, representatives of the PSOE, IU and UpyD, union leaders and major youth organizations, carryied a banner with the slogan A school without enclosures. The participants to read a manifesto for the normalization of homosexuality in schools.

March for recognition of LGBT identity in schools

In remarks before taking part in the ride, Aidoo has assured that there are “many reasons to be proud” because Spain is a country that has opened a clear bet for the extension of rights. “The Ministery of Equality has stated that all gays lesbian, transsexual and bisexual “have at their side the Government” and has ensured that 50% of gay adolescents suffer violence in schools. “We all have to help make school a safe space for diversity, because whatever small they learn lasts forever,” he said.

Beside him, the president of the Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals, Antonio Poveda, has expressed his pride because “Spain is an example throughout the world in the advancement of social rights”, but said that there that “further progress” and that “education is the next fight.”

After the banners, dozens of gay groups from Seville, Barcelona, Gandía, Logrono Asturias marched singing or shouting and shooting left by the thousands who crowded as a solid mass on both sides of the march prepared to chant any slogan.