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David Frum Flips on Gay Marriage

June 27, 2011 – 1:51 pm

Surprise. Surprise.

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Gay Blog Queerty Admits: We Prefer Legislating SSM Because We Always Lose At The Ballot

June 27, 2011 – 1:49 pm

It’s good to see that some gay writers are willing to admit the obvious: Is it possible that Obama has not yet come out in favor of full-on federal marriage equality because if he does, his opponents can say that he opposes the will of the majority? Even LGBT organizers agree that they’d rather pass […]

Video: Juan Williams on African American Opposition to SSM

June 27, 2011 – 1:37 pm

On FOX News Sunday this weekend Brit Hume and Juan Williams talked about the ramifications of the NY SSM vote: Via The Daily Caller, the key quote from Juan Williams: “And in the [African American] community Williams explained that same-sex marriage is a threat to the black family according to some.“ [T]o me, you know […]

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Pollster: New Yorkers Would Have Voted Down SSM If Given Chance to Vote

June 27, 2011 – 1:35 pm

Kathryn Lopez in NRO’s The Corner: Pollster John McLaughlin, who is based in his native New York, raises the question: “If they had brought the gay marriage bill to a public referendum, I don’t think it would have passed.” He continues: No state has ever passed it via referendum. Even California saw Proposition 8 fail. The fact that […]

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Brian Brown to New York Senators: Remember New Hampshire!

June 27, 2011 – 11:21 am

Brian Brown quoted in the Ithaca Journal on the bad consequences of gay marriage … for legislators who vote for gay marriage: While it was clear there was overwhelming opposition to same-sex marriage legislation in Maryland and Rhode Island, where the measures failed, New York “is a little bit of a unique creature,” said Brian […]

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Bishop of Brooklyn & Queens: SSM in NY Requires Church to Speak More Forcefully and Clearly

June 27, 2011 – 11:20 am

Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio in the NY Daily News: We who oppose Same-sex Marriage are not callous to the very real human longings for friendship, affection and belonging that proponents of this legislation espouse as the rational “Marriage Equality”. Indeed, we like other New Yorker discuss these issues with our friends, family, co-workers and loved ones […]

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NYT Editorializes Against Religious Freedom

June 27, 2011 – 10:55 am

While tepidly lauding Andrew Cuomo, the New York Times objects to language that may keep Catholic charities in business. (The hastily drawn language, we add, may or may not do that much or little, time will tell). But the Times asks, why accomodate “bigotry” at all? In drafting a compromise, however, Senator Saland and other […]

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Video: The Grisanti Flip Flop

June 27, 2011 – 10:52 am

Last Friday he voted for gay marriage. Last month he was against gay marriage. Watch him mislead the voters:

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"80 Percent of Children with a Gay Parent Come from Heterosexual Relationships"

June 27, 2011 – 10:50 am

In the San Francisco Examiner: The census data — which for the first time allowed gay couples to identify themselves as a family — revealed that San Francisco has 7,530 gay male couples living together, but of those, just 332 — or 4.4 percent — have children. Of The City’s 2,754 lesbian couples, 525 have […]

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ElectionWatch2012: SSM Looms Larger in Presidential Campaign

June 27, 2011 – 10:38 am

The Hill reports: Gay marriage looms as a significant issue in the 2012 campaign, and conservatives hope it will have a similar impact to 2004 when it helped George W. Bush win reelection. New York’s passage of a law late Friday legalizing gay marriage has energized the debate in Washington and will pressure President Obama […]

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Gawker: "Even Gay Marriage Requires Super-Rich Libertarians"

June 27, 2011 – 10:24 am

Max Read at Gawker writes: The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both have behind-the-scenes accounts of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s successful push for gay marriage in New York. And (surprise!) the key was a bunch of rich Republicans. The Times recounts a “secret meeting” between the governor’s “most trusted advisors” and “a group […]

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NY Senate Rules Changed Mid-Stream to Accommodate Democrats' Desire for Media Publicity

June 27, 2011 – 10:19 am

This is how deeply complicit the GOP leadership in NY was in passing gay marriage: they even changed the senate rules several times in a day, and silenced senators who wanted to speak — in order to vote in time for the 11 p.m. news: Essentially the Senate rules were changed in a backroom agreement […]

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Brian Brown in WSJ on Why Obama Won't Endorse SSM

June 25, 2011 – 9:17 pm

Because, NOM President Brian Brown says in the Wall Street Journal, the President knows it will lose him more supporters than it would gain: The political pressure for Mr. Obama to endorse gay marriage doesn’t seem to be there at the moment. The Human Rights Campaign, a group that lobbies on behalf of of gay […]

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White House Statement on NY Stops Just Short of Endorsing SSM

June 25, 2011 – 9:15 pm

A rather breathtaking claim from the White House after last night’s vote to redefine marriage: “The process in New York worked just as it should.” Really? Rushing through a bill opposed by the majority of the state’s citizens before the public even had a chance to read it? And who knows how many back-room deals […]

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NY Law Professor Explains Why She Doesn't Want to Marry Her Same-Sex Partner

June 25, 2011 – 1:08 pm

Katherine M. Franke, a professor of law and the director of the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School warns: Here’s why I’m worried: Winning the right to marry is one thing; being forced to marry is quite another. How’s that? If the rollout of marriage equality in other states, like Massachusetts, […]

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