Gay marriage may be a courtroom juggernaut, but it is a non starter in legislatures and in ballot boxes. The New York state senate voted against codifying homosexual marriages by a wide margin yesterday. Reading this report on the vote might give one the impression that nobody was against it, but 38 members of the state senate voted no, as opposed to 24 voting yes. Coming on the heels of the voting-booth affirmation of the traditional definition in marriage in Maine, the New York senate's vote confirms that the wave of the future is more canoe wake than tsunami. To loosely borrow from Frank Sinatra, if gay marriage can't make it there, it can't make it anywhere.

"the wave of the future is more canoe wake than tsunami"

so you think that until the sun explodes, gays will sit idly, accept civil unions, and not give a damn if the marriage laws are separate but equal? i dont know what country YOU live in, but it must not be america.

I don't know if gay "marriage" is inevitable, but I don't really care. I'd rather be on the right side of my conscience than on the "right" side of history.

And Nathan--Seperate but equal? That's a hoot! Don't you think you've beaten the "gay is the new black" meme to death? Skin color does not equate to sexual proclivities anywhere in the known universe. Come back to reality and quit comparing homosexuals to blacks. It's demeaning to black people.

If monogamists can get married, why can't polygamists get married?

Poor Homos they lose again. go back to the closet the people spoke.

The DC Council passed an act legalizing gay marriage Dec 1st. The DC motto is "Taxation without Representation" (actually they have 535 representatives...and their motto SHOULD be "The Bitch Set Me Up"), so I assumed that, like good democrats, they'd put this to a vote by the people...

Actually their 535 representatives will vote on it, so rather than put it to a vote by "the people" -- most of which Former Mayor-for-Life Marion S. Barry, Jr. probably speaks for (he was one of 2 that voted against it) -- the Council will leave it in the hands of the Democrat controlled Congress.

If only time travel were possible. We could send a gay guy back to the Jim Crow era and have him tell black people living in segregated towns that his situation is just like theirs. I'd come along with him and bring a camcorder, so that I could preserve for history the moment they knock his block off for saying such a stupid and offensive thing.

For gays to talk about "separate but equal" trivializes segregation.