State Sen. Jim Alesi[R]: Gay Marriage Vote Sunk Me

NY Daily News ^ | May 10, 2012 | Celeste Katz

[kevcol]

One of the four state Senate Republicans who broke ranks to vote for New York’s gay marriage bill last year will not seek reelection this fall.

Sen. James Alesi (R-Rochester) told the Daily News Wednesday night that he believes his vote in favor of the landmark gay marriage legislation would have severely hampered his chances in a GOP primary this year.

He said the vote — which passed 33-29 due to the GOP defectors — cost him the support of the leadership of the local Republican and Conservative parties. They are now backing his primary opponent.

“I’ve gotten a lot of support from Democrats and the gay community, but unfortunately they can’t vote in a Republican primary,” said Alesi, now in his eighth term.

Alesi was the first state Senate GOPer to commit publicly to supporting gay marriage.

[MrB]

It appears that an accurate description of what the left is promoting by promoting homosexual behavior is a bit too graphic for the moderators.

[Secret Agent Man]

I think it might be because I used the shortened abbreviation for “richard”. That’s the only thing I am thinking that would come close to “street language” in the description.

Otherwise I have seen what I have described posted here in much greater detail many times before.

I apologize, I will use “penis”, “member” or “Mr. Johnson” instead of slang for “richard”.

[manc]

I see the usual crap of support marriage equality , well if they did then they would support all sorts of marriage like a man having 6 wives and every time they say marriage equality then they need to be asked about polygamy .

This now is the time for all of us on ur side to inform all our friends, neighbors, family those at work especially those in the black and Hispanic community , this is not the time to shut up and stay silent like those idiots like on Hannty last night or the establishment does

[kevcol]

I know the posts are deleted, but thanks for the laugh - in fact I can’t stop chuckling even now, matching those words IN CAP to the pic is hand-in-glove. The sellout even looks a little like Bwarney Fwank.

[Secret Agent Man]

And I would have responded to you privately, but my private messaging ability has been disabled.

[MrB]

Nope, obviously not, because post 22 had both the parts starred out.

It’s the accurate description of the act that is in question, here.

Again, too much truth, sometimes, is simply not allowed.

[Secret Agent Man]

I was very surprised because if you do a site search on FR using the same terms I used, you will find stuff no worse/no different than what I posted. I think the problem is not all moderators definitions of what is and is not “family friendly” are nearly the same.

Standards here are not uniform across the moderators and I understand personalities vary, but when I post something I don’t believe is beyond FR limits based on what I see being posted here on that same topic, and that stuff sails through but my post is the only one getting tagged, I think there’s a problem in selective targeting/selective standards here.

It surprised me very much because I am a guy that for 13 years here has only had an issue with a moderator twice, counting this time.

[MrB]

The truth about homosexuality, indeed, is not “family friendly”.

[Secret Agent Man]

And unfortunately, the larger point I was making was this:

When a politician says he “supports” homosexuality, what they are really saying is they support the explicit acts that homosexuals engage in.

Yes it is perverted behavior. To spoof them saying such explicit things puts their benign, “fair”, “evolved” viewpoint in the true proper context of what they really are supporting when they say their pleasant “I support homosexuals and gay marriage”.

Nobody actually says it the way I posted it because they would not appear enlightened or evoke pleasant pictures in most people’s minds, it would backfire on them and people would be grossed out. But when you mask your position on an issue in a light, fluffy statement about “Fairness” or “rights” or “love” instead of describing what the person really is saying they are in favor of, you don’t always make that connection.

If we can’t be descriptive sometimes to get a point across, I suggest we stop people posting graphic abortion photos here because that certainly is not family friendly material to view either.

[ExCTCitizen]

Smart move, he was gonna be Lugared. The less of these pandering, homo-coddling, media-whore [R]s we have in state houses...the BETTER. I love this quote:

“I’ve gotten a lot of support from Democrats and the gay community, but unfortunately they can’t vote in a Republican primary,” said Alesi, now in his eighth term.

Tough S**t you traitor. What's really unfortunate is that closed primaries are not the case in every state.

Ditto on the statement