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Loading ...Poll: More New Yorkers support gay marriage
06.23.2009 10:51am EDT
(Albany) A poll finds growing support for same-sex marriage in New York as a bill languishing in the state Senate is scheduled for a special session.
The Quinnipiac University poll finds 51 percent of New Yorkers support the legalization of same-sex marriage. Forty-one percent oppose it.This is the first time the Quinnipiac poll found majority support for the measure.
Gov. David Paterson says he will compel the Senate to consider final legislative approval of the bill in a special session that he says will begin Tuesday.
The Assembly already passed the bill. Paterson says he will sign it into law if the Senate passes it.
The poll questioned 2,477 voters from June 16 to Sunday. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 points.
Canada has had marriage equality since 2004 and the last time I checked the country has not fallen off of the face of the earth. WHAT IS OUR PROBLEM??
Just a slight correction to R & R …
The first legally recognized gay marriages in Canada took place on Jan. 14th, 2001.
I know. I was there. You could look it up.
It is the age old religious argument that always comes into focus when items like this get discussed. If people could just separate the religious aspect from the civil issues then there would not be much of a heated discussion on this issue. If you want to just say any church can say “no” the I would think reasonably this could be agreed upon.
The Republicans made a major mistake getting into bed with the RRW and they just refuse to tell the churches to mind their own business. Nobody is saying that churches have to do gay marriage ceremony’s the non religious types who do it now are perfectly suited for doing this type of ceremony. I do not know one gay person that would be upset or even make an objection if they could be married by a justice of the peace or a judge. They (we ) just want to be able to get married and not have to worry about the RR going into their bedrooms and or have the same rights as a hetro couple.
This will not end the earth the US or the city of NY. People it is time to put this issue aside and go on to more important social issues (like attempting to get the unemployed jobs that make them feel like they are doing something real and productive.
And this poll helps us how? are the legislature of NY reading these polls? if so, shouldnt they vote for or with “the will of the people”?
O, I forgot some of them are “Christians” and voting for Marriage Equality would go against those beliefs. We need to find and weed out the bigots, the haters and send them back home and elect the right people into political offices in NY and accross the country.
New York’s Senate is 31-31 – No marriage equality will pass, I just know it as an activist who has been fighting for marriage equality since 1971!!!!
Oh and George R & R is correct Canada did legalize same-sex marriage in 2004 under the Canadian Civil Marriage Act (this applied to the WHOLE of Canada).
In America only 6 out of 50 states have legalized same-sex marriage – dismall and shamble I must say.
We saw similar polls in California and Florida before the 2008 election. Both Prop. 8 and Amendment 2 passed.
Americans flat out lie to pollsters when it comes to gay issues. It is unfortunate. But people in this country love to pretend they’re “OK” with homosexuality when they’re not.
What’s really annoying is that we’re polling soooo close to 50% that a well funded and well organized campaign during a referendum election can “swing” enough of those voters across to the other side. (Which is what happened in California, I think.)
I can’t wait until we’re polling around 60% in favor. Most campaigns can’t swing 11 percentage points in the other direction. I taunt the yahoos here in MA RE a referendum…we’re currently polling here at or above 60%, so they *know* they’d lose here.