(Here is Paterson greeting New York's Archbishop Dolan at his installation yesterday. Can't you just hear Paterson saying "wait until you see what I do tomorrow" ?)"As the family goes, so goes the nation, and so goes the whole world in which we live." Pope John Paul II
New York Gov. David Paterson has announced he will introduce a bill Thursday that would legalize same-sex "marriage." Despite the fact that the majority of people oppose it.
"The timing was always right. It's just who is willing to take that step, and I am," Paterson said. "I think it is, as other states are showing, the only ethical way to treat people who want to live together in peace under the civil law. So my general feeling about all these issues is the right ethical decision will inevitably be the right political decision."
New York's last attempt to pass the same legislation faltered in the Republican-ruled senate two years ago, after the Democrat-controlled assembly had passed it 85-61.
"The timing was always right. It's just who is willing to take that step, and I am," Paterson said. "I think it is, as other states are showing, the only ethical way to treat people who want to live together in peace under the civil law. So my general feeling about all these issues is the right ethical decision will inevitably be the right political decision."
New York's last attempt to pass the same legislation faltered in the Republican-ruled senate two years ago, after the Democrat-controlled assembly had passed it 85-61.
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