What clueless stupidity: The GOP majority in the state Senate is hereby demonstrated to be entirely useless as a vehicle for anything other than rubber-stamping Cuomo’s agenda, thus raising the question, Why the hell bother voting Republican?

If that’s what the people of NY want, OK. However, TX should not have to give “full faith and credit” to a NY marriage license until NY, including NYC, has to give “full faith and credit” to my TX concealed carry permit.

Yeah, it was a bone tossed to the Republicans that will be taken back. I give it 2 years, tops, before the anti-discrimination lawsuits begin in earnest.

Don’t worry, Stacy. Those fools are used to getting the Conservative Party endorsement (and name on the ballot under that line). Those four mooks just burned themselves alive, and Skelos just showed anyone who was watching that he can’t control his caucus, so he’s Dead Man Walking.

It can’t be. There is a severability clause that says if any portion of the bill is found to be unconstitutional the entire bill is unconstitutional. 

There has never been FFC for marriage, but you know there and federal benefits are where they are going next.  I am not advocating that, I advocate each state allowing its own citizens to define it (without judges doing it for them). 

Look on the bright side, now Scozzafava can marry Newt (as soon has he divorces Callista). 

Its just not that simple. There’s more involved here than the right of gays to engage in homosexual relations or to marry.

The law seems to be a good compromise:  gives gays right to marry but does not force any institution (church, temple, etc) that is not on board with the idea to allow the ceremony to take place on their property.

At least they’re selling out on the libertarian side of the issues instead of the socialist issues for a change.    IF there weren’t socialism (as in entitlements) attached, nobody on either side of the issue would care.  

If we can turn things around in California marry Kilgore Trout and make him my love gimp. 

It’s only a matter of time before some black robed outlaw disposes of the compromise idea. Those things rarely stand in the face of judicial lawlessness.

Was it not Harry Turman who said: If the choice is between a Democrat and a ‘Democrat’, the people will vote for the Democrat every time?

Exactly.  One of the pillars of Western Civilization is the institution of monogamus marriage.  By destroying the definition, the Left has successful blown away another support that undergirds the greatest civilization the world has ever known.  A is A; marriage is the sacred joining of a man and a woman together to form a family, one of the chief stabilizing units of any society.  When you take the ying and yang balance that is necessary for a family to function properly and replace it with ying and ying or yang and yang, you undermine a culture’s fragile stability.  That is the goal of the Leftist – to bring about the destruction of The West, so that on it’s ruins they can build their Utopia, Heaven On Earth, Immanentize The Eschaton.

A mere fifteen years ago, practically no one would have thought that in 2011 gay marriage would have made such headway.  Today, if we continue to ignore Justice Scalia’s warning, can you deny that adult incest and bestiality are likely to be santcioned in the near future?  That door has been wedged open.

Yep. Fifteen years ago, if you questioned an earlier plank of the “gay rights” movement by suggesting that it would propel society toward gay marriage, the left accused you of being “paranoid.”

Now, if you scoff at the protections supposedly provided by ”religious exceptions,” the left accuses you of being “paranoid.”

Apparently, to avoid being paranoid, you either have to be a leftist or naive.

Well hey, look at the bright side, now women can become new entrepreneurs by selling breast milk for the new married gay boys for their new….oh wait, never mind.

Two years? There’s someone shopping around for a church fellowship hall that will refuse them permission to marry there.

So what, exactly, is this going to mean for “domestic partnerships” now that “marriage” is legal for all comers in the State of NY?

Will the law now change such that the ONLY people who benefit economically are married couples, and not also those who have domestic partners?

And if not, why not?  If gay activists want the right to marry, then make them accept the responsibility for demanding that right and all that comes with it – if you AREN’T married, then you don’t get the full legal and economic benefits that marriage provides.

This is where their whole argument falls apart…..

With respect- you’re gonna trust Democrat-appointed judges with this? Really?

“There are reasons we have laws governing important institutions, such as marriage. As in landscaping, you don’t remove a wall until you know why it was put there.”
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2011-06-15.html

Ann Coulter is a national treasure, an obnoxious national treasure but none the less……
 

Exactly, if you gotta say it in Latin……..

First, the severability clause is a joke.  It won’t stop judges from ruling against churches and religious organizations — they will simply “construe” what they are doing as something that doesn’t trigger the severability clause.  It is a question of definition — and one thing that the whole same-sex marriage debate demonstrates, definitions are infinitely flexible as far as the gay-rights activists are concerned.

Second, even if the protections for religious organizations & churches are upheld, they don’t appy to private individuals.  An evangelical couple who owns a bed and breakfast will have to permit homosexual “married” couples to stay there, or face a lawsuit and the revocation of their business license.  A devout Roman Catholic who runs a wedding photography business?  Ditto.  This statute will essentially require a not insignificant number of people of faith to either:  1) abandon their professions or 2) conform to the new morality in their choice of clients.  That doesn’t strike me as a libertarian outcome.

Problems for religious organizations and religious believers are inevitable given the environment in New York now.