The "voters are too worried about other issues" meme coming out of the NY defeat.

[CTyankee]

For the life of me, I cannot figure out how such a ridiculous rationale makes any sense! Can't most people hold several opinions about varying issues of the day at any given time? Do voters' heads freeze when gay marriage is mentioned?Must gay marriage rights be a persistent cloud over a straight person's head in order for the state legislators to take a vote on a civil rights issue?

I've heard this rationale being touted coming out of the NY state lege's vote and it seems clear to me that they just want to run and hide and are totally grasping at straws...and pretty lame straws at that.

If anyone in NY state wants to do a little research, have them come to CT and talk to people here who have been living with gay marriage in our state for a while now. Ask them how much gay marriage has caused upheaval or misery in their own lives, how "horribly" their own straight marriages have been affected, how life is SO different than before.

But please, stop with the arrant nonsense of this argument...

[TheWraith]

1. First off, the voters had nothing to do with this.

It was a vote in the state legislature. And while it's true that a large number of voters here don't care much about gay marriage, it's also irrelevent. Most of them don't care about brownfield reclamation or debt abatement either.

[CTyankee]

2. I understand that and all the more reason to wonder why the meme is being used

in the first place. Except as an "out" for the legislators...lay it on the voters instead of taking responsibility for social justice in their state...an outrage.

[closeupready]

3. lol, IMO, as a 14-year resident of New York, if voters here were responsible,

they would have not given Bloomberg a third term, Hillary Clinton would never have won the Senate seat, and there are undoubtedly a number of other things that don't come right to mind that suggest to me that GLBT voters here will not hold legislators responsible for denying them equal rights.