It's expected to pass if it comes up for a vote.
Yay.
Its prospects in the GOP-led state Senate are not as favorable.
Boo. Okay -- we all know Republicans are not our friends on the marriage issue. But consider this:
The Democratic conference, which includes 108 of the chamber's 150 members, has been weighing whether to bring the bill to the floor for the past month. Speaker Sheldon Silver, the Democratic leader from the Lower East Side, was known to be unwilling to have a floor vote unless he were certain that his party had enough votes, at least 76, for passage, and the number of known Democratic supporters has been hovering right near that number for the past several weeks.
Okay -- so after all the time, money and votes gays have consistently given Democrats, why the struggle to cobble together a bare majority to pass legislation essential for gay equal rights within the Democratic party?
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