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quickly the political tide is turning, how quickly the
“untraditional” is becoming normal. Is it moving quickly
enough that the Supreme Court, where the issue may
be headed via a California test case, will decide the
country is ready to accept gay marriage as a
constitutional right? Quickly enough that the issue
could be an asset, or at least not a liability, if Cuomo
runs for president in 2016? Neither would surprise me.
At the very least, voting for gay marriage, even if you
are a Republican politician from the heartland, is not
the risk it would have been just a couple of years ago.
The four defectors aren’t guaranteed re­-election. But if
they lose, it is likely to be in spite of their marriage
vote, not because of it.
“The earth didn’t stop spinning,” Alesi said. “The moon
didn’t fall into the pond. The people who live across the
street are still the same people, except that they’re
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married.”
Alesi is not the type to echo McDonald’s chorus of
“Take the job and shove it,” but he clings to something
that lawmakers rarely get from working in Albany, a
sense of having done something worthwhile and a little
brave.
“At the end of the day, wherever I end up, we’ll have
marriage equality in New York State,” he told me.
“There isn’t anything you can point to in a political
career, if you’re just looking over the years you served,
that you can say was as big as this.”
Bill Keller is a former executive editor of The Times. He
writes a column for the Op­-Ed page.
EDITOR: Greg Veis
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