5:20 PM – edited to add that HRC has set up a page so you can thank Senator Smith to standing up for LGBT rights.
Joe.My.God’s reporting that there’s even further acrimony & weirdness coming out of the wrangling that’s been going on in the NY Senate between the “gang of three” anti-gay senators and the rest of the Dems.
For those of you who haven’t read about this before, the brouhaha stems from the Marriage Equality Bill that Gov. Paterson and the Senate Dems back. The three people name – Diaz, Kruger, & Espada – aren’t for the bill.
I always wonder about the embarrassment people are going to feel 20 years from now where the idea of opposing gay marriage seems as lame as being against giving women the vote.
This is just a guess , but I suspect that 20 years after giving women the vote there were still a great many men who thought it was a bad idea.
This kind of stuff takes at least a couple of generations.