Posted on 06/24/2011 3:20:14 PM PDT by lbryce
The New York gay marriage bill introduced by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo needs only one more yea vote from a Republican senator to pass. If that vote materializes, New York would become the sixth and most populous state to allow same-sex marriage.
President Obama received mixed reviews after speaking Thursday night to supporters of the bill at a Democratic fundraiser in New York City. More than 600 gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people paid $1,250 each to attend the gala.
The president's critics argue that although he said he supports equal rights for gays and lesbians, he won't come right out and support same-sex marriage.
LZ Granderson, an openly gay journalist for ESPN and CNN, said he wanted to be mad at Obama (like some of those who heckled the president during his speech), but ultimately he understood that now was not the time for the president to publicly support the redefinition of marriage.
Granderson wrote on CNN that "as inspiring as it would have been to hear the president say he supports marriage equality, Thursday night simply was not the right time."
"And it won't be tomorrow, or even next week," he continued. "That's not a defeatist attitude wrapped in dogmatism, but rather the depressing voice of pragmatism."
Daily Beast writer Nancy Goldstein was less forgiving in her piece Friday that carried the headline "Obama’s Gay Marriage Wimp-Out" and concluded: "If Thursday night’s performance is any indication, this president, left to his own devices and with a pocketful of LGBT checks, does not appear to share our sense of urgency."
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It just went to the floor for a vote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2739629/posts
Regards,
That's a given. But you'd think that even in New York there would be some with principle. I wonder what bargaining chips are being used?
Principle usually goes out the window when you become a legislator. As for the bargaining chips... Money, votes on other bills, pet projects to be passed. I hear a big one is redistricting. Cuomo threatened the GOP Senate to block any redistricting that they passed and let the liberal courts draw the maps instead. This would effectively ensure Democrat control of the Senate after the elections. The GOP caved on it.
Well, that is just fabulous!
We’re told that gays are only 2 to 4 % of the population. How many of that small percentage want to get married?
I’m not in favor of the bill, but I can’t believe it will have that much of an impact on society in general.
Yeah, well these very same Black people consistently vote for politicians who let this happen. They share in the blame as far as I am concerned.
That’s what I keep telling my husband about smokers. Though declining hugely, they still represent 20 plus percent of the population.
But do they agitate? Do they form protest groups? Do they fight at all?
No, they just sit around and smoke and maybe have a couple of martinis ....
...but yet the majority of Black people voted AGAINST same-sex “marriage” in CA.
“Yeah, well these very same Black people consistently vote for politicians who let this happen. They share in the blame as far as I am concerned.”
You miss the point I was trying to make which is that the left canNOT play the race card on this issue, comparing homosexual “marriage” with interracial marriage, because the majrotity of Blacks are against it, too.
The fact that the majority Blacks vote poorly is true, but that’s another thread.
It is getting to be a mantra from the gay AGENDA people that being against gay so-called marriage is a racial issue, which it is not.
I’m even seeing it after anti-gay “marriage” letters to the editor on the newspaper blogs.
[[Even so, some judge would overturn it any way]]
Some gay judge- just likwe hwat happened in californication- who then turned aroyund and said his perverse lifestyle had nothign to do with his descision- yeah, suuuuure it didn’t
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