Uncle Remus
01-05-2007, 07:32 PM
Newly installed New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer intends to follow through with campaign pledges to propose legislation legalizing gay marriage in his state, the New York Sun is reporting.
As a candidate, Spitzer said same-sex marriage should be legal and he would seek to make New York the second state, after Massachusetts, to permit same-sex couples to wed.
"The governor made a commitment to advancing it this year, and he will do so,” Spitzer’s communications director, Darren Dopp, told the Sun.
However, the governor did not address the issue in his 61-minute State of the State address Wednesday.
But he did say he envisioned New York as a "state that understands that the civil rights movement still has chapters to be written.”
Asked by a reporter if the "chapters to be written” included the gay marriage issue, he said: "It was a reference to a range of areas where the civil rights movement has not yet been completed, and I think that subsumes all of them.”
It’s unclear how much support a gay marriage proposal would receive from lawmakers, according to the Sun.
The Democratic speaker of the Assembly, Sheldon Silver, hasn’t taken a position on same-sex marriage, and in the Senate, where Republicans hold a slight majority, GOP leader Joseph Bruno has said he is opposed to gay marriage.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/1/5/155238.shtml?s=ic
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As a candidate, Spitzer said same-sex marriage should be legal and he would seek to make New York the second state, after Massachusetts, to permit same-sex couples to wed.
"The governor made a commitment to advancing it this year, and he will do so,” Spitzer’s communications director, Darren Dopp, told the Sun.
However, the governor did not address the issue in his 61-minute State of the State address Wednesday.
But he did say he envisioned New York as a "state that understands that the civil rights movement still has chapters to be written.”
Asked by a reporter if the "chapters to be written” included the gay marriage issue, he said: "It was a reference to a range of areas where the civil rights movement has not yet been completed, and I think that subsumes all of them.”
It’s unclear how much support a gay marriage proposal would receive from lawmakers, according to the Sun.
The Democratic speaker of the Assembly, Sheldon Silver, hasn’t taken a position on same-sex marriage, and in the Senate, where Republicans hold a slight majority, GOP leader Joseph Bruno has said he is opposed to gay marriage.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/1/5/155238.shtml?s=ic
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More good news, this year just keeps gettin' better 'n better!:goodvibes