DANIEL O'DONNELL: I think it will.
In brief response, you know, polling is so subject to manipulation. When you call someone and ask them at their home whether or not they think marriage should be between one man and one woman, that answer is almost as equally about polygamy as it is about whether or not I should have the right to get married.
I'm looking forward to the day that a poll is taken where you call people and say, should a gay person be denied a license because they're gay? That is what the question at hand is. Now, if you look at the state of New York's history, we have led many movements.
The anti-slavery movement, the abolitionist movement started in New York. The right of women to vote started in New York. The anti-apartheid movement started in New York in this country. And so we have led in many of those things.
The truth is, no one has ever been able to establish why my ability to get a license that many of my colleagues have had two and three times is harmful to anyone at all. In fact, it has no impact on anyone else but me.
And, in the end, it was the right thing to do because the vast majority of New Yorkers have come to understand that to give me that piece of paper is -- is not a problem to them. It's just something that I should be getting -- getting as an equal New Yorker to everyone else.
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NYS Assembly Member Daniel O'Donnell on PBS NewsHour on June 27, 2011 on the passage of marriage equality for gay New Yorkers.
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