Back room deals allowed NY Gay Marriage
Image via CrunchBase The movement to promote same-sex marriage has been very active and very successful. The movement to promote and protect traditional marriage laws has been very active, and seemingly less successful. What’s the truth? That’s the key question, actually, and fewer people asking means more power to influence public opinion. Take this front page story in the New York Times just over 24 hours after same-sex marriage was legalized by the state legislature. The story of how same-sex marriage became legal in New York is about shifting public sentiment and individual lawmakers moved by emotional appeals from gay couples who wish to be wed. But, behind the scenes, it was really about a Republican Party reckoning with a profoundly changing power dynamic, where Wall Street donors and gay-rights advocates demonstrated more might and muscle than a Roman Catholic hierarchy and an ineffective opposition. On the first part of that…”shifting public sentiment” wasn’t q