Remember the "Saturday Night Live" skit where John Kerry defended his position on the Iraq war as being "perfectly consistent" - he was always for the war when addressing conservatives and always against it when speaking to liberals.
Well, New York's Democratic Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, the
scourge of Wall Street and would-be next governor, has taken an
oddly Kerryesque stance on the gay marriage lawsuits being argued
in his state. According to a report by
law professor/marriage advocate Arthur Leonard in Gay City News, in
the suit Lambda Legal brought in Manhattan, Spitzer:
was invited to intervene in the case to defend the marriage statute, he declined to do so, leaving the defense of the case to the City Law Department....
On the other hand, Spitzer's office is defending the marriage law in other lawsuits pending outside the city, in which his office has taken the position that the marriage law is constitutional.
While upstate voters might not take to the idea of gay marriage,
liberal Manhattan is a different story. Thus is all
explained.
--Stephen H. Miller
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