“I apologize for those who feel offended…I cannot deny a person, a human being, a taxpayer, a worker, the people of my district and across this state, the State of New York, and those people who make this the great state that it is the same rights that I have with my wife.”
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Senator Mark J. Grisanti, a Republican from Buffalo, was the 33rd vote for the bill.

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/25/nyregion/20110625_MARRIAGE-4.html