Marriage: Bargained Away in New York Senate Deal?

The Advocate
December 6, 2008
New York state senate Democrats may have secured control of their chamber by bargaining away marriage equality on Thursday. Since Election Day, when Democrats won a two-seat majority in the chamber after decades of Republican rule, three conservative members of the caucus had threatened to defect to the GOP unless they received more power. But a handshake deal in New York City apparently gave the holdouts what they wanted, The New York Times reports. [Link]