"They are going to try to get away with the idea that we're not going to know their views," Schumer complained. "But that's not going to work."

The top Democrat's mention of same-sex marriage in the same breath as his party's primary litmus test issue, abortion, raised a few eyebrows.

"How does he suddenly have the chutzpah to ask that as a litmus question when he himself opposes it?" WABC Radio host Curtis Sliwa wondered Tuesday morning.

Schumer came out against gay marriage in 2004, after New Paltz, N.Y., Mayor Jason West performed nearly two dozen same-sex unions.

As a congressman in 1996, Schumer voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, which authorizes states not to recognize same-sex unions from other jurisdictions.

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