Even as gay rights groups cheered New York’s adoption of same-sex marriage last month, their opponents called the vote an isolated setback and started planning how to use the specter of New York to rally their troops and fill their coffers for the battles ahead.
Less than 24 hours after the New York Senate’s vote, made possible by four Republican defections, a leading anti-same-sex-marriage group started sending out defiant pleas for money.
“This fight is far from over,” the National Organization for Marriage told supporters as it pledged to spend $2 million in 2012 to defeat New York’s four “turncoat senators” who “betrayed marriage.”
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