In the Democrat and Chronicle:
Sen. Greg Ball, R-Patterson, Putnam County, said he's undecided on the same-sex marriage bill but would support civil unions, which would afford gay couples equal rights but not the ability to marry...
Ball said after passing civil unions, New York could pass a law allowing for issues to be on the ballot — called initiative and referendum — and then let voters decide whether to make gay marriage legal.
"I believe we could immediately pass the most comprehensive civil-union bill in the country and at the same time find a way to constitutionally package an initiative and referendum on gay marriage and put it out to the people," Ball explained.
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So in other words, the senator is still undecided on this issue but is leaning more towards a "no" vote.
How many "gays are recruiting children" commercials will NOM run to turn New Yorkers against gay marriage?
@alvin:
I don't know, but I do know that those two nice grannies that just want to say "I do" are making an appearance in our TV market again after a long hiatus...
Funny how this is the ONLY topic NOM and the right-wingers seem to think always requires a ballot question...considering there are many many other issues which affect EVERYONE directly that are never put on the ballot.
Not everything is a ballot question, NOM.
I just read Federalist Paper #78 and it seems like our founding fathers intended for an issue like this to be settled by courts, not by referenda or legislative bodies. What do you all think?
No Will, NOM wouldn't be able to run their commercials then.
NOM must be doing a bang up job in exposing the lies and false teachings of the homosexual agenda to see all the whining from the homosexual taliban here.
The whine is just so precious.
Alvin -
Yes, the commercials; only through paid media venues can supporters of marriage finally get heard whereas homosexuals get free media coverage, courtesy of gay and PC media staff, day after day after day.
Dontcha just hate it when the opposition's message finally gets heard?
Which of these issues should be put on the ballot? I am all for it, if the issue is important enough.
No Will Fisher in post#5 our founding fathers would never approve of this matter being resolved by the courts.
They also would be appaled I believe that this would be happening in the USA. Does any reasonable person actually think George Washington and Thomas Jefferson supported SSM?