NY Times: Republican legislators not harmed by vote to redefine marriage
. . . For many Democratic members of the Assembly, last year’s passage of a bill to legalize same-sex marriage was the culmination of years of battle and persuasion within their party’s ranks, and most of them eventually supported the legislation.
For the few Assembly Republicans who ultimately supported the bill, the vote was potentially far more risky: a public break with their own party on an issue that at the time was still considered in some quarters to be radioactive, potentially even career-killing.
But the experience of Assemblywoman Teresa R. Sayward suggests that those fears may be unwarranted . . .