New York State Senate Votes Down Gay Marriage Bill

This article was about how on wednesday in New York the state Senate voted to reject the bill that would have allowed homosexual couples to get married. The bill has been circling the senate for about a year now, and it is a very controversial topic. The vote was 38 against it, and 24 for Gay marriage. All of the republican senators opposed the bill, while 10 black senators and 7 out of ten women senators voted for it to pass. The bill is goning to be put off until 2011. Many people in New York spent alot of money, 1 million dollars to be exact, trying to campaign to get support and to get the bill legalized this year. Since 2003 there have only been 7 states that have legalized same-sex marrige, but two of the seven have gone back to restricting marriage to straight couples, (california - last year, Maine - last Month). I think that there will always be people that disagree with the topice of gay marriage, and that it will be a long time before it is resolved and i feel like no matter if there is a compromise or if they do legalize gay marriage then there will always be the group or person that doesn't want it and will petition to get rid of it. There should be a national law about this topic because it is not fair that in some states gays and lesbians are allowed to get married and in some states they are not. And if they do legalize homosexual marriages, and then they go back to a law that says there cannot be same-sex marriages i feel that the marriages that have already been performed should still be legal. Something needs to change about this topic, because while the rest of the world is starting to come to terms with homosexuals the government is falling behind.