PrintAugust 7, 2011
Let The People Decide Marriage Issues
Advocates for extending marriage rights to same-sex couples think they are on a roll with New York State's action. Lawmakers and lobbyists cut a midnight backroom deal to push a marriage bill through Albany. They would not dare to submit this issue to New York voters. Some of them remember how state voters turned back the ERA in the Empire State thirty years ago.
Of course, New York is home to our liberal media elites. They naturally think the Big Apple is the center of the world and shape of things to come. The heroes who defended marriage there were former New York Giant David Tyree, who is black, and Democratic state Sen. Ruben Diaz, a Pentecostal minister. The sellouts were Republicans.
It is a fine irony that New York and New England elites, who once prided themselves on being "progressive," now fear their own citizens. Not one state in New England that has tried to force acceptance of same-sex relationships as marriages has allowed the...(Read Full Article)
