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NYTALBANY —Senate Republican leaders said on Wednesday that they have not decided whether to take a vote on legalizing same-sex marriage, as advocates mounted a full-court press to garner the one vote still needed to pass the measure into law before the scheduled end of this year’s legislative session on Monday.
Thirty-one members of the 62-seat Senate have now publicly backed the legislation, including two Republicans who have emerged in recent days to say they would vote for same-sex marriage. The Republican-controlled chamber, where gay marriage was defeated two years ago by a wide margin, is seen as the last obstacle to the measure, which is strongly supported by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a first-term Democrat, and has passed the Democratic-controlled state Assembly several times before.
Republican senators met for four hours Wednesday to discuss the marriage issue, and, as they emerged, they said they had not yet reached a consensus about bringing the bill to a vote. The state Assembly now plans to vote on the bill Wednesday afternoon, after Mr. Cuomo agreed to send the “message of necessity” required for an immediate vote because the bill language was just formally introduced on Tuesday.
Should the bill pass, New York will become the sixth and largest state in which gay and lesbian couples can legally wed, intensifying a complex national debate over the role of homosexuals in American society and giving new momentum to a movement that had stalled in recent years.
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They are reluctant to take a vote because they know it'll pass.