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N.Y. Gov. Spitzer: Legalize 'Gay Marriage'
Newly installed New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer intends to follow through with campaign pledges to propose legislation legalizing gay marriage in his state, the New York Sun is reporting.
As a candidate, Spitzer said same-sex marriage should be legal and he would seek to make New York the second state, after Massachusetts, to permit same-sex couples to wed.
"The governor made a commitment to advancing it this year, and he will do so,” Spitzer’s communications director, Darren Dopp, told the Sun.
However, the governor did not address the issue in his 61-minute State of the State address Wednesday.
But he did say he envisioned New York as a "state that understands that the civil rights movement still has chapters to be written.”
Story Continues Below Asked by a reporter if the "chapters to be written” included the gay marriage issue, he said: "It was a reference to a range of areas where the civil rights movement has not yet been completed, and I think that subsumes all of them.”
It’s unclear how much support a gay marriage proposal would receive from lawmakers, according to the Sun.
The Democratic speaker of the Assembly, Sheldon Silver, hasn’t taken a position on same-sex marriage, and in the Senate, where Republicans hold a slight majority, GOP leader Joseph Bruno has said he is opposed to gay marriage.
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