If a large majority of New Yorkers already support marriage equality, maybe it can be achieved sooner. With that exception, I would have to reluctantly say, let’s wait a bit – but educate and build support in the meantime.

Enough with the blatant outright lies.

Equality or not one dollar or minute of support.

Tell people like Michael Rogers who hoodwinks you into partisan antigay violence that enough is enough.

Whatever your party affiliation, no equal rights is no support. No money. No GOTV. NO nothing.

But the lemmings (who overwhelmingly self-identify with the Democratic Party) prefer to screech and yell at anyone who doesn’t join their particular party prefer to put political party over gay rights.

You can hear them howling at the moon over my comment alone.

Their thinking is that a political party (Conservative Republican judges gave Iowans and everyone in the U.S. marriage rights) is moar important than gayhood.

We now see who the bigots and liars are.

New York is like several other states–New Jersey, PA, Ohio and Michigan all come to mind–in that all of them have layers of local government that can be incomprehensible. In New York, your services may be provided by the county, by the town, by the incorporated municipality, by the school district, or by some special district. Hempstead is a town in Nassau county, but it’s overlaid by both school districts and incorporated towns. Public transit is provided by MTA, a regional agency chartered by the state. Confused? Every one of those local governments is getting some money from Smallbany. When you get up north to Syracuse or Buffalo, the power of patronage hires in all those different governments means political power, and they’re pretty much the only job game in town because Upstate’s economies are at least as bad as the City was in the mid-70s. So you get some hilljack Senate Speaker, like the former one, and he agrees to dole out state money in the Bronx in return for not being challenged for his opposition to gay marriage. Greater NYC is 2/3 of NYS, but shaking up the antigay status quo also has Downstate ramifications; if Downstate says too much about all the corruption in Smallbany, then Downstate’s own dirt comes under scrutiny (Nassau County is often considered most corrupt in US), which brings large tax increases to make up for the funny money. So, in New York State, lack of gay equality has more to do with criminal state budgetary standards, local nepotism and geo-economic division than it does with real moral opposition.

I would love for New York to get gay marriage soon, but I think we’re going to have to be patient about this one. Democratic State Senators from swing districts really don’t want to be sticking their necks out right now. I can’t blame them. Control of the legislature for the next forty years is at stake.