Today is not a happy day for those of us who believe strongly in marriage equality. The New York State Senate defeated marriage equality yesterday. Shame on those who stood in the doorway of justice–in the same way that Bull Connor stood in the doorway of justice during another struggle decades ago.

   I post this to a blog that mostly concerns itself with labor and economics because this IS a labor issue and it is an issue of economics. On a very practical level, hundreds of rights come with marriage–you can debate whether that is fair to those people who are not married but that isn’t the point. The fact is same-sex couples are denied access to those rights. Unacceptable in the land where we preach "equal justice under the law".

   And, then, at the larger level–the labor movement cannot stand by while there is injustice in the land. And, the fact is that many unions have been great on fighting for marriage equality. But, now we need an even bigger commitment.