On Thursday New YorkGovernor David Paterson announced his introduction of a bill to end the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage at a press conference attended by openly lesbian New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, openly gay Assemblyman David O'Donnell and openly gay (and HIV+) State Senator Tom Duane.Although Democrats control both house of the state legislature, there are a number of conservative Democrats that oppose marriage equality and do not support the legislation.
Its Daniel O'Donnell, not David. He carried the marriage legislation in the Assembly where it passed in 2007. The New York State Assembly was one of the first legislative bodies to pass marriage legislation without a court order to do so.
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