The codification of same sex marriage rights has passed the house but not the Republican held senate in NY State. Observers expect the needed vote to come as early as next week. NY is significant because it it the third largest state by population.
President Obama stopped short of endorsing the efforts to pass marriage equality legislation by stating that he is evolving on this issue. The President sees the issue as a civil rights equality issue but personally struggles with his comfort zone of one man-one woman marriage.
Should marriage equality or same-sex marriage be decided at the state level or should it be national? Will the courts decide or will legislatures decide? Should the nation just go with civil unions for all and leave ‘marriage to churches and other religious institutions? Is this a civil rights issue such as the President believes?
