Sam Hoyt supports gay marriage

    On July 6, the New York State Court of Appeals ruled that the state’s constitution does not guarantee gay couples the right to get married. Because the plaintiffs—44 couples in four lawsuits—raised no federal issues, there can be no appeal to the US Supreme Court. So the issue, as noted by Judge Robert Smith in the 17-page majority opinion, becomes legislative.

    “The New York Constitution does not compel recognition of marriages between members of the same sex,” Smith wrote on behalf of the 4-2 majority. “Whether such marriages should be recognized is a question to be addressed by the Legislature.”

and Sam Hoyt plans on doing something about it if re-elected….

    At the demonstration, State Assemblyman Sam Hoyt, a long-time supporter of same-sex marriage, promised that he would do exactly that.

    “I was disappointed because I’d waited two years since this court action was initiated and I really thought the court was going to do the right thing,” Hoyt said. “To me, it just seems like the sensible thing. That said, if we have to act legislatively to change the law the law so that we can allow gay marriage, I’m going to lead the charge to make that happen.”

    “There are too many reasons we’ve given people to flee this state,” Hoyt said. “Let’s look for easy ways to bring people into the state. If New York State became the first state in the union to officially accept and put into statute gay marriage laws, you would see people flocking to this state, as opposed to the young people who are leaving. To me it’s a no-brainer. I’d like the City of Buffalo to be known as the city of openness, the city of fairness, the city of tolerance. If we did that, I think thousands of people would come here.”

Let me make my position very clear…

I am against gay marriage, you want to have a civil union, go for it. As far as “marriage” goes, No. A marriage is done in the Churches, ask your Pastor, Priest, Reverend how they feel about this issue. All I have spoken to are against it, for two reasons. They believe it is against Gods word and His commandments, Marriage is ordained by God and to be between a man and a woman. The other reason is, if gay marriage is allowed by Law, will they be forced to perform gay marriages?

Look at this with an open mind, if they as the heads of their respected churches and are required by Law to perform gay marriages and refuse, what will happen to them? All I have spoken to said they would go to jail before they perform one.

So many people talk about a “seperation between church and state”, will this be a Law that forces churches to marry homosexuals? If they pass this and Sam Hoyt and the assembly democrats push it they are slapping your Pastor, Priest, Rabbi, Reverend and your congregation right in the face.