Gay-marriage legislation has died twice before in the New York legislature, even with the support of two Democratic governors. “Advocates,” McGuire said, “have to whip up the air of inevitability in hopes of wooing additional votes.” He heads a Christian group devoted to informing voters on elected officials’ issues. McGuire, the president of the New Yorker’s Family Research Foundation, said in an email interview. “You see so many new stories spinning momentum for ‘gay marriage’ in 2011,” the Rev. Gay-marriage advocates are taking hope for a new gay-marriage bill from a new governor, new coalitions, new strategies and new public attitudes.īut opponents suggest the advocates are misreading the political landscape.
