Now I haven't reviewed the week for a while because there was just nothing to talk about! At all! Then this story just dropped into my lap, and I would like to talk about it a little but I also want you guys to read the story for yourselves. It's about gay marriage, recently as you all know, gay marriage was basically legalized in California. The supreme court there ruled that it was against the law to outlaw it. That sent a shockwave throughout all the major gay communities and subsequently a jolt to the Mayor of New York, David Paterson. He might be legally blind be he can definitely see that he should support gay marriage. How else can you show that you aren't some stupid figurehead that can't think for himself, I mean the president, I mean yeah. He has now shown his support for this initiative and this is my way of also showing my hope and desire for equality. Read the article courtesy of the Times, here:

ALBANY — Gov. David A. Paterson has directed all state agencies to begin to revise their policies and regulations to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions, like Massachusetts, California and Canada.

In a directive issued on May 14, the governor’s legal counsel, David Nocenti, instructed the agencies that gay couples married elsewhere “should be afforded the same recognition as any other legally performed union.”

The revisions are most likely to involve as many as 1,300 statutes and regulations in New York governing everything from joint filing of income tax returns to transferring fishing licenses between spouses.

In a videotaped message given to gay community leaders at a dinner on May 17, Mr. Paterson described the move as “a strong step toward marriage equality.” And people on both sides of the issue said it moved the state closer to fully legalizing same-sex unions in this state.

“Very shortly, there will be hundreds and hundreds and hundreds, and probably thousands and thousands and thousands of gay people who have their marriages recognized by the state,” said Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell, a Democrat who represents the Upper West Side and has pushed for legalization of gay unions.

Massachusetts and California are the only states that have legalized gay marriage, while others, including New Jersey and Vermont, allow civil unions. Forty-one states have laws limiting marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Legal experts said Mr. Paterson’s decision would make New York the only state that did not itself allow gay marriage but fully recognized same-sex unions entered into elsewhere.

the rest of the article can be read here