State of Gay is hopeful.

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Well, well, well, look who is going to rear it's post GLEE ugly head, just in time for the coming 2012's! The GOP in Iowa and New Hampshire are firing up the old WE HATE THE GAY's band that had all those hits back in 2000! In order to stand out in a pack of crazies Sarah, Mike and Mitt will all be out in the cornfields and up in snowy snowy Dixville Notch all trying to out hate each other, with that NOM bus bring up the rear..... so to speak.

Meanwhile today in NEW YORK our old pals over at Quinnipiac came out with a poll showing support for full out same sex marriage at an all time high : "a clear majority of New York voters surveyed support the legalization of same-sex marriage. The survey found 56 percent of voters support it, compared to 37 who do not. Maurice Carroll, the poll spokesman, said this is the highest level of support for the issue ever recorded by Quinnipiac.". I'm pretty sure if this was broken down by voters , it would be even higher.. ( folks in NYC tend to vote..)
As I have written about here before, in New York elections, pro SSM ( same sex marriage ) candidates get HUGE majorities. In this past election, the GOP ran a certifiable crazy man from Buffalo, and turn out was at an all time low.. but still 62.2 % of New Yorkers voted for the pro gay new Governor, Andrew Cuomo. In the 2006 race, with a much higher turn out, much pro-er (?) gay Eliot " socks on" Spitzer took 70% of the vote. New York is a PRO GAY state..
AND yet, we do not have marriage equality. Sails through the New York House every year, and dies in the was gerrymandered Catholic State Senate with the help of one crazy  Puerto Rican Evangelical Democrat. The GOP has a a ( I think.. ) two vote majority in the Senate this term... so who knows....

Also today, major Diane Rehm fan, Robert F. Kennedy - and ex- brother in law of the current New York Governor ( messy divorce, don't ask..) came out with a video in favor of marriage equality:


So, so very close. Yes, New York recognizes all out of state/ country marriages - sort of - but we need NEED to add New York to the growing list of states that are standing up for all its citizens.