Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said that, if elected governor this fall, he would push to legalize same-gender marriage in New York during his first year in office.
Asked by a reporter if he would make the passage of a same-gender marriage bill a priority in his first year on the job, Cuomo told reporters in New York City: “It’s a priority.”
State lawmakers, he said, “have their hands full with their current legislative agenda, most notably the budget, but my opinion, my policy point of view, it is a priority.” Asked if he thinks a same-gender bill could pass the Legislature in 2011, an off-election year, Cuomo replied: “Do I think it can? Yes.”
In December, the state Senate rejected a same-gender marriage bill in a lopsided 38-24 vote, a stinging defeat for advocates who had waged a long, expensive campaign and had won pledges of support from Senate Democratic leaders.
Not a single Senate Republican voted for the bill, while eight Democrats opposed the measure. The bill had earlier that year passed the Democrat-controlled Assembly for the second time.
Cuomo’s position on the issue has evolved over the years. When he ran for governor in 2002, the Democratic politician said he favored civil unions but did not support same-gender marriage. He declared his support for same-gender marriage when he ran for attorney general in 2006.
(Source: Wall Street Journal)
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It is good that that he warns us in advance so that we can work in full force against it. Odom didn’t get married with Yossi or Chavo Didn’t get married with Rivka.
May Hashem listen and he loose the election
Sick of the progressive, leftist garbage. Check the 1963 Communist goals for America
Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.” [i.e. destroy God’s vision for his children.]
Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.” [Condom & prostitution based Sex Ed. vs. abstinence which is ALWAYS 100% effective.] [Who needs biological warfare agents when deadly plagues like HIV-AIDs & incurable STD’s are so easy to proliferate, so easy to destroy physically, mentally & spiritually.] [ diversity = perversity.]
so frum Jews in New York will reply by electing Republicans? or perhaps we prefer patronage to principles?
akuperma, yes, to your great disappointment they will. Do you plan to intimidate Jews in voting for Democrats?
akuperma,
Of course they should elect republicans or conservatives to be more accurate. It has nothing to do with Son Of Mario & his to’ayva loving but it has to do with ethical & moral standards which there is no doubt Conservatives are closer to our way of thinking than just about any liberal socialist progressive member of the democrat party.
lost my vote
Is YWN censoring me?