Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, hailed as a hero at a gala dinner for the state’s largest same-gender rights group, issued a passionate plea on Thursday for other states to follow New York’s lead and allow same-gender couples to wed.
Mr. Cuomo, who choreographed the successful push this year to win legalization of same-gender marriage, received a standing ovation that lasted for more than a minute from supporters of the group, the Empire State Pride Agenda.
Shifting his sights beyond New York in a way he has not done before, Mr. Cuomo demanded that the federal Defense of Marriage Act be repealed.
And in his most forceful terms to date, Mr. Cuomo called for his counterparts across the country to embrace what he framed as an issue of equal rights and to push for the legalization of same-gender marriage in their own statehouses.
“We need marriage equality in every state in this nation,” Mr. Cuomo said. “Otherwise, no state really has marriage equality, and we will not rest until it is a reality.”
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We have to do something to stop this something that We didn’t do in ny nobody stopped it
Does he know the Parsha!?
He messed up NY now he wants to mess up the country. I’ll bet anything he’s a closet ‘happy’ person!
We should STOP Voting for Candidates who Support Toeiva
start a Recall Cuomo campaign!!!
SHAIKETZ AROIS!!!!
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This guy has terrible chutzpah. He openly lives in sin with a woman he is not married to.
Last week he said that being against toeivah ‘marriage’ is un-American.
He will get what he deserves, and we can actually see serious trouble developing for him already. He is being strongly attacked by the occupy Wall street crowd and other liberals, as you can see in the stories linked to below.
http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/84676/is-occupy-albany-about-cuomo-is-it-now/
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/58142.html
If you voted for this man in order to obtain funding for community needs, you have zero right to complain.
This is what happens when you are in cahoots with these people..and pretty soon, you are guilty by association.
Unless you are trying to have your cake and eat it too by protesting his views on civil rights but still taking his money, in which case you make Religious Jews look ungreatful and malcontents.
What a great Kiddush Hashem that is!
He’s running for pres, menuvel, hell come crashing down, just wait and see