Posted on 06/24/2011 5:37:26 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW
(Reuters) - The New York state Senate again put off a vote on legalizing same-sex marriage on Thursday, and the Republican Senate leader said lawmakers would meet again on Friday to decide what to do.
The bill is one vote short of enough support for passage in the state Senate. It was approved in the state Assembly by a comfortable margin.
If approved, New York would be the sixth and by far the most populous U.S. state to legalize gay marriage, and the vote would be a huge victory for the gay rights movement.
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What exactly are gay rights? No one is stopping them from doing anything.....even infringing on my rights to be left alone.
The Sodomy Lobby must be beside themselves with frustration!
Upstatehood. Keep making the case, Albany.....
Just wondering, of the “6 states which (supposedly) have legalized gay marriage” how many actually were done by judges who overruled the will of the people?
In California, it was a gay FEDERAl judge who wrote an anti-religious rant to overturn the state’s vote. Can that even remotely be called the “state” legalizing gay marriage????
Usually when the senate has multiple delays on a hot button issue like this it means they think there is still some more under-the-table payoff money to be sqeezed from the groups promoting and opposing the issue.
They just need more time to play the groups off against each other to see what the high bid will be.
The homo-fascists don't care, they know that the media's ingratiating homage to the sodomite camp makes a majority.
The religious exemptions are garbage. If government is the one that can "give" exemptions then they can also take them away. Passing this is one of many steps to silence believers.
Exactly right. "Religion exemptions" are just a smokescreen for imposed fascism. The wavering Republicans HAVE to be made aware of this.
The very idea of the need for "religious exemptions" to provide what the Constitution already should be providing is a dead giveaway to it's insidious falsehood. And it forever blows away the patently false argument of the sodomites that "gay marriage" won't effect anyone else. If that were the case, than why are religious exemptions supposedly even needed and then viciously attacked by the homo-left? This novel construct must affect someone else if someone else is seeking the right to not be affected what will otherwise be newly required of them.
Iowa was one. Connecticut and Massachusetts were court decisions. Any others were by state fiat.
Actually, they are probably the ones delaying it. Whenever votes on issues like this happen fast - sanity usually prevails. Drag it out long enough to make the public lose interest, and the nutball faction usually gets their way.
(Hence the reason democrap politicians usually “run away” to avoid voting.)
But I disagree about the delay. Every hour that nothing is done proves that they don't have enough support. They will spin this as "working on it" for an inevitable victory, but I don't believe it.
A man on the radio, who I think represented the Catholic bishops, said that when it came to a vote, voters never passed it in any state.
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