(NY Gov Andrew) Cuomo Says He’ll Push for Vote to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage

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Source: The New York Times

ALBANY — Fourteen months after the State Senate soundly rejected legislation that would have legalized same-sex marriage, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is preparing to pursue another vote on the matter in the next few months.

Mr. Cuomo, who included legalizing same-sex marriage in his campaign platform, said Wednesday that he intended to ask the Legislature to take up the matter in its current session, which ends in June.

“We’ll be working very hard to pass it,” the governor, a Democrat, told reporters after delivering an encore of his budget address at Hofstra University on Long Island.

His pledge was greeted warmly by gay-rights activists, who have waited with some uncertainty to see whether Mr. Cuomo, faced with a daunting battle over the budget, would make a charged social issue like legalizing same-sex marriage a priority.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/10/nyregion/10gay.html

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. What miracle is going to make this happen?

It failed last time despite intense lobbying by a gov who was seriously committed to glbt rights ( Cuomo is not) and a DEM senate majority ( it's GOP now).

Can't hurt to hope, I guess.

Or can it?

[closeupready]

5. It's just for show.

Nothing's going to happen.

[TheWraith]

6. You're unfortunately correct.

Likely it'll be defeated by the same margin as last time.

[closeupready]

7. You know something though? LOL, I have to laugh at how jaded my post sounds.

Considering that ten years ago, nobody would have dreamed gay marriage would be on ANYONE'S radar; now it's a fait accompli in at least 3 states, and more on the way.

Isn't there an expression about this - something like 'an embarrassment of riches'? No, that's not it, but anyway, I'm sorry if I'm being too much of a downer here.

[TheWraith]

8. It's understandable, but you're right.

Progress is moving with unusual haste in this case.

[iandhr]

2. won't hold my breath

Cuomo is good on this issue but the Senate is controlled by the GOP a*****es

[defendandprotect]

3. Good for Cuomo -- !!! Only fanatics want to keep this oppression of homosexuals going ...

and they're usually religious fanatics!!

[closeupready]

4. Ok.

n/t

[conspirator]

9. if you wanna marry a shoe, I'll marry you. But the rent is too damn high nt