Sentences with phrase «vote on gay marriage»

Hundreds rallied around the state calling for a public vote on gay marriage.

No Will Barclay, R - Pulaski Ken Blankenbush, R - Black River Gary Finch, R - Springport Brian Kolb, R - Canandaigua William Magee, D - Nelson Don Miller, R - Clay Robert Oaks, R - Macedon Claudia Tenney, R - New Hartford Here's where CNY's state senators stand The Senate has not voted on the gay marriage bill, but here's where the region's senators stand:

Nunes» hedging is likely going to annoy a number of people — particularly those in the LGBT community who threw their support behind his campaign to protest Huntley's «no» vote on gay marriage last December.

Methodists Won't Vote on Gay Marriage This Year After All With a narrow vote to pass same - sex questions to committee, Methodists band - aid over rumors of split.

In a comment which will be seen as an implicit criticism of the prime minister, Mr Clegg said he did not support David Cameron's decision to allow Tory ministers and MPs a free vote on gay marriage.

Cuomo has endorsed one member of the Senate Democratic conference, Senator Joseph Addabbo of Queens, who also provided a needed yes vote on gay marriage, and who is locked in a tight race with Republican Eric Ulrich.

McGuire said it would be wrong for the state Senate to vote on gay marriage without holding public hearings.

He was further helped by Mr. Weprin's affirmative vote on gay marriage, a move that caused significant backlash in the community.

He also permitted the historic Senate vote on gay marriage, even though Skelos personally opposes same sex marriage.

(Just to be clear, these groups aren't all working together to target Stachowski — or anyone else, for that matter — but do share a similiar goal, which is to replace «no» votes on gay marriage with «yes» votes).

The GOP is very interested in winning back the seat Gipson won in a squeaker from veteran former Sen. Steve Saland, whose «yes» vote on gay marriage earned him the endorsement of Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but also the ire of Conservatives.

Sen. Steve Saland, a Hudson Valley Republican whose profile rose considerably this summer when he joined the Democrats to provide a deciding vote on the gay marriage bill, has his first 2012 opponent.

Sen. Greg Ball, a key GOP swing vote on gay marriage, warned a bill will never pass without significant exemptions for religious institutions.

«I don't think he'll be voting on gay marriage as comptroller,» Lorigo said.

Lorigo said he did not participate in the state executive committee vote on the gay marriage resolution.

ALBANY — Divided Senate Republicans came under new pressure to vote on gay marriage yesterday after Democrats unexpectedly pushed the measure through the state Assembly, bringing it one step closer to becoming law.

Your response is essentially polls on DADT don't matter, votes on gay marriage do.

Responding to last night's vote on gay marriage at Prime Minister's Questions, David Cameron said:

Take as one example the recent vote on gay marriage in the state of North Carolina.

In 2007, a Republican - controlled Senate left Albany without voting on a gay marriage bill after the Assembly had passed it for the first time.

The Deputy Prime Minister, who this week alone has dismissed calls for a free vote on gay marriage, at least for his own party and ruled out emergency border controls when the Euro collapses, will go on the offensive over the links between the «other» two parties and the Murdoch media empire.

A third poll measured the Saratoga - Capital Region Senate district, where Senator Roy McDonald lost a GOP primary over his yes vote on gay marriage.

The decision will conclude with a 5 to 4 count with old reliable Clarence Thomas, joined by Antonin Scalia, Sam Alito, John Roberts and Anthony Kennedy casting the deciding thumbs down vote on gay marriage.

France had MPs from Muslim or mixed families (one or both parents being Muslim) in 2013, when the vote on gay marriage took place.

Paladino's statement refers to Saland as a «RINO» (Republican In Name Only, for the uninitiated), but takes issue with his support of the «contrived $ 10 billion budget deficit and a tax reform bill that was in fact a tax increase bill,» and not his vote on gay marriage.

Granted, Grisanti never cast a no vote on gay marriage legalization in the first place, but his potential Democratic opponent this fall, Charles Swanick, has been opposed to same - sex marriage rights in the past.

A number of interests have targeted Stachowski, including Fight Back NY (for his «no» vote on gay marriage), and the NYLCV and its national counterpart, the LCV, (for his less - than green voting record), not to mention Rep. Brian Higgins, who is backing Kennedy in the upcoming Sept. 14 election.

I spoke late this morning with one Republican who said ultimately McDonald was just too exhausted to press on, noting he has spent over a year on the defensive since his «yes» vote on the gay marriage bill last June caused conservatives to target him.

Tremendous credit, of course, goes to Cuomo for having the strength of will to push for a vote on the gay marriage bill, and for making sure that all the votes in the state Senate were there.

A vote on gay marriage failed in the Senate in 2009, 38 - 24, when Democrats controlled the chamber.

Watching the interview, I get the sense that it was more than just his vote on gay marriage that led to the boards decision, but Lorigo made it clear that Swanick has better conservative credentials than the Repubilcan incumbent.

The vote on gay marriage, in which Cameron was forced to negotiate with Labour to protect a bill which is widely despised in the party, did little to help matters.

Hmmmm... has Hamodia excoriated Shelly Silver for HIS «yes» vote on gay marriage or are they afraid to do that?

For the last three months members have been talking about how the Cuomo administration has neglected them and could only make it right with a big delivery on rent laws and a vote on gay marriage to prove that Cuomo is still a Democrat.

She has received a lot of criticism from gay rights groups over her no vote on gay marriage last year.

But though Skelos might relish a high - profile opportunity to demonstrate that he'll be running things more openly and small - «d» democratic than did Malcolm Smith — who vowed to only allow a vote on gay marriage if the votes were lined up — would he do so with the knowledge that gay marriage would actually pass?

Nunes had been gaining strong support from gay rights groups who decried Huntley's no vote on the gay marriage bill last year.

After more than three decades in Albany, former Republican Sen. Stephen Saland lost a tight race in 2012 to Democrat Terry Gipson, thanks in no small part to the presence of Conservative Neil DiCarlo, who opposed Saland's «yes» vote on gay marriage, on the ballot.

While NOM insists Democratic Assemblyman David Weprin's «yes» vote on gay marriage could cost him the race, HRC stresses that no matter who wins tonight (assuming it's not too close to immediately call, which is a distinct possibility, given the history of past NY House specials) marriage equality «did not play an influential, even modest, role in the outcome.»

McLauglin described the Wilton endorsement as a «bombshell - type of thing» and said it wasn't solely because of McDonald's vote on the gay marriage bill that has resulted in the political troubles.

Queer Rising was also responsible for crashing former Sen. Hiram Monserrate's Christmas Party over his no - vote on gay marriage.

Longtime gay activist Ethan Geto recalled that when the Assembly passed the marriage bill in 2007, «David, in what may have been an unprecedented act for a lieutenant governor, or any executive official, worked the floor of the State Assembly on the night that the vote on gay marriage was about to occur, encouraging and cajoling assemblymembers to support the bill and, importantly, making the crucial point that gay rights are fundamental civil rights.»

So it is not a stretch to suggest that, between Conservative and black votes, Mark Grisanti owes his seat to the fact that he identified himself as a «no» vote on gay marriage.

Addabbo has said he never discussed his personal beliefs or how he would vote on gay marriage in the Senate during his campaign against then Sen. Serphin Maltese (R - Glendale).

I supported Steve Saland, because he said, «If I give you the vote on gay marriage, I'm going down.»

Because of their votes on gay marriage, the four of them suffered defeat, near loss, and embarrassment.

Their votes on gay marriage may very well decide a shift in power in the State Senate.

(This has as much, if not more, to do with Alesi's short - lived lawsuit against a pair of constituents on whose property he trespassed and broke his leg as it does his «yes» vote on gay marriage).

Meanwhile, it's unclear where a vote on gay marriage stands in all of this.