Hold Andrew Cuomo Accountable

Dan Wiessner has a Reuters article on the effort to neuter marriage licensing in New York, focusing mostly on the tactics of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and his cooperation with marriage neutering advocates. I've had to clean up the sloppy language in some of the quotes to make sense of the article.

Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and the District of Colombia [license brideless or groomless unions as] marriage, and 10 states [register] civil unions.

Let's restate that this way: 45 out of 50 states only license marriage as marriage. In only five states, marriage licensing has been neutered so that certain non-marriages can be licensed as marriage, while some kinds of marriages, such as polygamous marriages, which continue to be recognized in various places in the world as they have throughout all of history, are not licensed.

Cuomo has stopped short of making himself the public face of the campaign, instead leaving on-the-ground organizing to groups that have lobbied for marriage equality for years.

"Marriage equality"? Not that Reuters is biased, or anything.

A recent Siena poll found 58 percent of New Yorkers support same-sex marriage.

While this wouldn't surprise me, I'd like to know the particulars of that poll. (I highly doubt it looked anything like this poll.) Surely, if this was true, the marriage neutering side wouldn’t need so much strategizing to reach their goal, right?

New Yorkers, stand up and be counted! Call on your elected representatives to reserve state marriage licenses for marriage.