This week is marriage equality week in the Empire State, and the votes are there, it seems, in the State Senate, absent some last minute collywobbles. This, though, is worth re-reading:
Influences contributing to the changes of heart are secret Republican polls showing majority support for gay marriage in key swing districts and the strong possibility that the GOP could lose control of the Senate next year to Democrats campaigning on the issue, sources said.
But the anti-marriage vehemence of the state's Conservative party is still in play. Nonetheless, if the vast and populous state of New York backs equality, we are in a new world. What would stop California then?
The Dish 