A1273 would have established the “LGBTQ+ advisory board” to make recommendations and assist with developing potential legislation and regulatory changes in New York state.

The Senate passed A1273 on June 3, 2024, by a vote of 60 to 0, prior to it being vetoed by the Governor. We have assigned pluses to the nays because homosexual behavior should be illegal in New York. Being contrary to the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God,” the grossly illicit, self-inhibiting, and unsanitary acts of sexual perversion inherent to the LGBTQ+ movement undermine self-government and the family—the very foundations of a free society. Real “equality” under the law means that there can be no appeal to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” for anyone apart from the moral sanctions set forth by “their Creator” who grants them with “certain unalienable Rights.” In other words, nothing in the U.S. Constitution can be used to support homosexuality. The positive standard established by the principles of the American Founding implies the negative prohibition. No amount of “Pride Month” legislation can make normal or even constitutional that which truth has told us since time immemorial to abominable and shameful.