Candidates take to Twitter to laud Supreme Court same-sex marriage rulings
“Equality is affirmed as an American value,” read the tweet from mayoral frontrunner Anthony Weiner on Twitter after the US Supreme Court issued two rulings in favor of same-sex marriage.
Weiner, the former Brooklyn-Queens congressman who vaulted to the top of the polls in the mayor’s race this week, wasn’t the only candidate who took to twitter to announce an opinion on the high court’s June 26 rulings against the Defense of Marriage Act and California’s Proposition 8. In the latter case, the justices declined to rule, meaning that a decision by a lower court that had ruled in favor of same-sex marriage stood.
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, a former Park Slope councilman, had this to say on twitter: “Gov’t should never stand btw the love of 2 people.” He also called the decision an “historic day.”
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, a lesbian who married her female partner last year, issued a tweet as soon as the court’s ruling became known. “The history of our nation has been a strong and steady march towards light, equality, and justice for all,” she wrote.