Unlike Rudy, NYC Mayor Bloomberg Keeps Promise to Officiate Same-Sex Wedding
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who lobbied for same-sex marriage back in May, is taking his famed LGBT ally status one step further.
He will be officiating a marriage between his consumer affairs commissioner, Jonathan Mintz, and chief policy adviser, John Feinblatt, on the first day the same-sex marriage law goes into effect in New York.
The July 24 ceremony will be his third time officiating a ceremony since becoming mayor, according to NBC New York.
It’s refreshing to see a politician embracing equality with open arms, especially as one as influential as Mayor Bloomberg.
Meanwhile, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani has yet to make good on a promise to officiate the marriage of his friend Howard Koeppel once same-sex marriage became legal in New York.
But, Bloomberg has a couple more weddings to officiate if he wants to catch up with the former Ferndale, Michigan Mayor Robert Porter, who officiated a symbolic same-sex wedding of 11 couples back in 2004. Granted, once Bloomberg pronounces his employees as a newly married couple he will have done something that the symbolic ceremony in Michigan never did. But hey, we’re putting the pressure on Bloomberg to just keep the same-sex ceremonies coming.
NBC New York also reports that the city clerk’s office will remain open late that day to accommodate for all the expected nuptials.
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