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That’s what the Village Voice is asking on its cover today. As we wait and wait and wait for the New York Senate to vote on marriage equality.

Inside, the VV article that goes with the blowup doll mouth explains that, once NY gets its act together, it will have been well worth the teeth-grinding.

But if this city once signified the leading edge of that movement, what does it say that in those European countries celebrating our fair city, there’s gay marriage equality, but here, where the struggle for rights began, New York still can’t get it right?

. . . Voters, it’s true, rejected gay marriage in California and Maine, and gay marriage’s Cassandra, Maggie Gallagher, resides right here in our state. But even Gallagher couldn’t do anything about it if our legislature approved a marriage equality bill and Governor Paterson signed it into law.

“It would be difficult, if not impossible, for an opponent to repeal a new law,” says Justin Phillips, assistant professor of political science at Columbia University. “The reason it was so easy in California and Maine is that those states have citizen initiatives, which allow voters to draft a new law or amend their constitution. New York does not.” Once New York approves an equal marriage law, says Phillips, “it’s pretty much here to stay.”

. . . So what, then, is the hang-up?

In a word, it’s the Democrats.

To be more specific, it’s the chickenshit Democrats in the Senate. Some are afraid of being exposed as bigots, some are afraid of being exposed as homo-lovers, and some are pro marriage equality but would rather block a vote than possibly see it defeated.

Know what happens if the Democrats in the Senate can’t pull it together? Yup. Another anti-fundraising slogan for the DNC boycott.

Once we get marriage equality here in NY, I’m kind of looking forward to seeing what Maggie Gallagher, who just issued another NOM NY Marriage Action Alert, does when citizen initiatives aren’t an option.

More on the maybe mandatory blowjobs here.