New York-Style Marriage

[Geee]

American Spectator:

After days of being just one vote away, the New York state legislature passed a bill late Friday night allowing marriage licenses to be issued to same-sex couples. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the measure into law, prompting Philip Klein to quip, "So a lot has changed since [the] current NY governor's dad ran the ‘Vote for Cuomo Not the Homo' campaign.'"

A lot has changed indeed. As recently as the 1990s, the belief that marriage was anything but a union between a man and a woman was a fringe position. A huge bipartisan congressional majority passed and Democratic President Bill Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act when it looked like judges might rule differently in just one state. Same-sex marriage was considered an oxymoron, not a blow for equality. When given the chance, blue states were as likely as red states to vote it down.

New York is now the biggest state where marriage is legally considered a unisex institution. This is the result of democratically enacted legislation, not judicial fiat. Though supporters have yet to prevail in a single state referendum, more than half of the six states that have full gay marriage (not just civil unions) have now arrived at that destination by the legislative process rather than judicial imposition.

[machz990]

Voters will be lining up to overturn this new law by voting in the upcoming election according to an article I read in the paper today. Even though I'm opposed to same-sex marriages, it has to be an emotional roller coaster for those affected in states where a law for same-sex marriages is passed only to be overturned later.