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**Njxatsbf** · 11-09-2005, 06:08 PM

The gay marriage thing last year I blame mostly on his precarious position as a GOP darling as opposed to his actual social views. I think that since this election is in the bag for him, he'll change his mind sometime during the next term since he has nothing to lose.

I don't care why he acted as he did, but appealing the (amato?) decision was cheap politics to appeal to homophobic voters. Sickened me that a) he went to a pride agenda event that night and talked about how pro-gay he is, and that the appeal will speed up gay marriage in NYS (it won't) and b) how many people lapped up the spin lip-service. If he had done nothing, the issue would have been resolved years faster, but he actively threw a wrench into it just for political gain, then told people he was helping them. Slick, slimy and, sadly, effective.

Nothing like the other mayors who acted unilaterally - especially in CA where they have a anti-gay marriage ballot initiative on the books. Any marriages that would have been performed would have been entirely legal, and given the neutral marriage law on the books here (only pronouns make it heterosexist) they likely would have been permanent.

11-09-2005, 06:08 PM	#14
Njxatsbf Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 507 Senior Member	The gay marriage thing last year I blame mostly on his precarious position as a GOP darling as opposed to his actual social views. I think that since this election is in the bag for him, he'll change his mind sometime during the next term since he has nothing to lose. I don't care why he acted as he did, but appealing the (amato?) decision was cheap politics to appeal to homophobic voters. Sickened me that a) he went to a pride agenda event that night and talked about how pro-gay he is, and that the appeal will speed up gay marriage in NYS (it won't) and b) how many people lapped up the spin lip-service. If he had done nothing, the issue would have been resolved years faster, but he actively threw a wrench into it just for political gain, then told people he was helping them. Slick, slimy and, sadly, effective. Nothing like the other mayors who acted unilaterally - especially in CA where they have a anti-gay marriage ballot initiative on the books. Any marriages that would have been performed would have been entirely legal, and given the neutral marriage law on the books here (only pronouns make it heterosexist) they likely would have been permanent.
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