Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill - Third Reading - Part 20

Pessoal,

Não há como não se emocionar com esse momento e o simbolismo dele.

Aqui o vídeo com o resultado final da votação que colocou a Nova Zelândia na rota dos nossos corações.

Aqui, uma matéria do AfterEllen, que traduziu bem o meu sentimento. Não é só para o Congresso Americano se envergonhar. É para todos os congressos do mundo que se negam a nos dar esse direito também se envergonharem. Graça

New Zealand Lawmakers Pass Marriage Equality, Break Into Song

(a notícia foi tirada do AfterEllen.

Posted by 

Heather Hogan, Senior Editor

 on April 17, 2013

http://www.afterellen.com/2013/04/new-zealand-lawmakers-pass-marriage-equality-break-song

Queer women love New Zealand. Lucy Lawless? Kiwi. Anna Paquin? Kiwi. Anika Moa? Kiwi.Topp Twins? Kiwi. Alison Mau? Australian, actually, but she got engaged in New Zealand to her Kiwi girlfriend. Last night New Zealand gave us another reason to love it. After a two-hour Parliamentary debate, and a 77 to 44 vote, it became the 13th country to legalize same-sex marriage at the national level. And then they spontaneously broke into song, because of course they did, because New Zealanders are the best. They sang "Pokarekare Ana," which is a traditional love song composed in the indigenous Maori language.

You can watch news footage of the unbelievably moving impromptu celebration, but have a tissue handy because you're probably going to spontaneously burst into tears.

New Zealand follows Uruguay and France, both of which recently legalized same-sex marriage.

Louisa Wall, the Labour Party MP who introduced the legislation, told BBC News: "In our society, the meaning of marriage is universal - it's a declaration of love and commitment to a special person. Nothing could make me more proud to be a New Zealander than passing this bill." And then she posed in front of this giant Gay Pride flag and put every American Congressperson in to shame.

Photo: Hagen Hopkins/Getty

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to watch that video one more time and sob my eyes out.

MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS - SAME LOVE feat. MARY LAMBERT (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

Just talking about love. Graça

SAME LOVE

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (feat. Mary Lambert)

  [Verse 1: Macklemore]
When I was in the 3rd grade
I thought that I was gay
Cause I could draw, my uncle was
And I kept my room straight
I told my mom, tears rushing down my face
She's like, "Ben you've loved girls since before pre-K"
Trippin', yeah, I guess she had a point, didn't she
A bunch of stereotypes all in my head
I remember doing the math like
"Yeah, I'm good at little league"
A pre-conceived idea of what it all meant
For those who like the same sex had the characteristics
The right-wing conservatives think its a decision
And you can be cured with some treatment and religion
Man-made, rewiring of a predisposition
Playing God
Ahh nah, here we go
America the brave
Still fears what we don't know
And God loves all His children
Is somehow forgotten
But we paraphrase a book written
35 hundred years ago
I don't know

[Hook: Mary Lambert]
And I can't change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
And I can't change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
My love, my love, my love
She keeps me warm [x4]

[Verse 2: Macklemore]
If I was gay
I would think hip-hop hates me
Have you read the YouTube comments lately
"Man that's gay"
Gets dropped on the daily
We've become so numb to what we're sayin'
Our culture founded from oppression
Yeah, we don't have acceptance for 'em
Call each other faggots
Behind the keys of a message board
A word routed in hate
Yet our genre still ignores it
Gay is synonymous with the lesser
It's the same hate that's caused wars from religion
Gender and skin color
Complexion of your pigment
The same fight that lead people to walk-outs and sit-ins
It's human rights for everybody
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There is no difference
Live on! And be yourself!
When I was in church
They taught me something else
If you preach hate at the service
Those words aren't anointed
And that Holy Water
That you soak in
Is then poisoned
When everyone else
Is more comfortable
Remaining voiceless
Rather than fighting for humans
That have had their rights stolen
I might not be the same
But that's not important
No freedom 'til we're equal
Damn right I support it
I don't know

[Hook: Mary Lambert]
And I can't change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
And I can't change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
My love, my love, my love
She keeps me warm [x4]

[Verse 3: Macklemore]
We press play
Don't press pause
Progress, march on!
With a veil over our eyes
We turn our back on the cause
'Till the day
That my uncles can be united by law
Kids are walkin' around the hallway
Plagued by pain in their heart
A world so hateful
Someone would rather die
Than be who they are
And a certificate on paper
Isn't gonna solve it all
But it's a damn good place to startXX
No law's gonna change us
We have to change us
Whatever god you believe in
We come from the same one
Strip away the fear
Underneath it's all the same love
About time that we raised up

[Hook: Mary Lambert]
And I can't change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
And I can't change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
My love, my love, my love
She keeps me warm [x4]

[Outro: Mary Lambert]
Love is patient, love is kind
Love is patient (not cryin' on Sundays)
Love is kind (not crying on Sundays) [x5]

I Want You Back - The Jackson 5

This song is to all L World guys... :)))

I Want You Back

Jackson 5

Uh-huh huh huh huh Let me tell ya now Uh-huh

When I had you to myself I didn't want you around
Those pretty faces always made you stand out in a crowd
But someone picked you from the bunch when glance was all it took 
Now it's much too late for me to take a second look

Oh baby give me one more chance (show you that I love you)
Won't you please let me (back to your heart)
Oh darlin' I was blind to let you go (let you go baby)
But now since I see you in his arms (I want you back)
Yes I do now (I want you back)
Ooh ooh baby (I want you back)
Ya ya ya ya (I want you back) Na na na na

Tryin' to live without your love Is one long sleepless night
Let me show you girl
That I know wrong from right
Every street you walk on I leave tearstains on the ground
Following the girl I didn't even want around
Let me tell you now

Oh baby all I need is one more chance (show you that I love you)
Won't you please let me (back to your heart)
Oh darlin' I was blind to let you go (let you go baby)
But now since I see you in his arms

Uh-huh A buh buh buh buh (2 times)
All I want A buh buh buh buh
All I need A buh buh buh buh
All I want A buh buh buh buh All I need

(Jermaine): Oh just one more chance to show you that I love you baby (6 times)

(I want you back) (Jackie): Forget what happened then (I want you back)
(Jermaine): Let me live again

Oh baby I was blind to let you go
But now since I see you in his arms (I want you back)
(Jackie): Spare me of this cause
(Jermaine): Gimme back what I lost

Oh baby I need one more chance
ha I tell ya that I love you