As he promised during his election campaign, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has introduced legislation that would give same-sex couples full marriage rights in the state.
According to the report in New York's Gay City News, analyists believe the legislation has a good chance of passing the Democratic controlled Assembly, but getting it through the Republican-led Senate will be a much tougher challenge. An ally in that fight could be New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is on record as committing to testify in favor of this type of legislation.
I commend Governor Spitzer for backing up his campaign promise with action, something that is becoming more of a rare occurrence in this nation's political arena,
One of the right-wing's favorite arguements against same-sex marriage is that the majority of people don't want it. That appears not to be the case in New York according to this survey taken by Crain's Business. Published in Crain's New York Business magazine, the poll showed that 63% of voters support a gay marriage law.
I wonder how the right wing will react if they lose this battle in the New York state legislature. Wouldn't it be interesting if they took the issue to court? That wouldn't surprise me and would serve to reinforce my view that hypocrisy is no obstacle as long as they succeed in restricting the rights of GLBT people and recording their bigotry in the laws of this nation.
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The Majority Leader of the Senate has the authority to keep any item off the agenda, regardless of how the State Senate might have voted on it. Bruno will simply not allow a vote to be held.
ReplyDeleteThis was well known and understood beforehand, including by Spitzer.