New York State Tea Party-supported GOP Senator Greg Ball, who has used Governor Cuomo’s marriage equality bill as a path to fame and fortune, finally got himself in front of the national spotlight with an interview Monday night on CNN. Ball, who flirted with tens of thousands of New Yorkers and Twitterers Friday by suggesting he might reconsider his stance on marriage equality (“I would absolutely vote no,â€) then found a way to back away, tells CNN, “Without those religious protections I would be an absolute no.”
But hey, in the mean time, he got a lot of attention. Even more than last Wednesday when he hired a camera crew to trail him around the capitol.
Ball’s consistent complaint is that he believes Governor Cuomo’s marriage equality bill does not protect religious institutions and individuals sufficiently from prosecution for discrimination, despite the fact that 700 faith leaders got together to publicly state the bill’s religious protections are sufficient.
The CNN host challlenges Ball beautifully. “Either you support same-sex marriage or you don’t. And the rest of that then becomes politics.”
Yup.
Ball, who hired a man in a chicken suit to follow around his political opponent in his first political campaign, has been supported by the Tea Party and was threatened by a Tea Party leader to not vote for the marriage equality bill or they would primary him.
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