Gov. Spitzer is going to follow through on his pledge to put through a gay marriage bill:
Gov. Spitzer said at a private fund-raiser that he wants a Democratic-controlled state Senate to legalize gay marriage - a highly divisive and controversial issue - as one of its first priorities in 2009, a witness to the remarks told The Post.
Spitzer, a gay-marriage proponent, pledged to help Democrats next November win the three Senate seats they need to gain the majority.
"One of the first things we're going to do when [Senate Minority Leader] Malcolm Smith is [majority] leader is gay marriage," the witness recounted Spitzer as telling some 60 people who paid up to $10,000 each to attend the event in Greenwich Village Wednesday night.
Of course this is from the NY Post, so maybe the lede and headline aren't the whole story:
Two other witnesses, including an elected official, said they couldn't recall Spitzer's exact language, but added that the governor suggested a Democratic-controlled state Senate would follow the state Assembly's action this year in passing, for the first time ever, a gay-marriage bill.
Spitzer spokeswoman Christine Anderson denied the governor said a Democratic-controlled Senate would make gay marriage a top priority. She said his reference to the Assembly passing a gay-marriage bill "was the line greeted with applause."
Whatever. Wingnuttia of course shits its collective underpants in delight, because they think bigotry is always a winner for them. Why, even the Staunch Libertarian Hero, Glenn Reynolds, agrees. This will rid them of that meddlesome Spitzer in 2010! At least, so says this asshole, who informs us that he "has no problems with civil unions" but regards gay marriage as an "idiotic social experiment." Uh-huh.
The thing about Spitzer's drivers license proposal was, it would have made New York roadways safer. The thing about gay marriage is, it's about equality under the law.
And I'm a bad person because I like to say "fuck." These conservatives and internetty libertarians, they are good people because they want to increase the chances of killing you in a car accident and want to tell a certain class of Americans that they can't legally marry the love of their life.
Fuck that shit. Spitzer won't lose anything by doing the right thing, in the long run. Especially given the clown-car quality of the NY GOP.
