“Assembly Candidate Blames Helene Weinstein, Dean Skelos for Religious Persecution”
In a press release posted on Facebook by Joseph Hayon, the Brooklyn GOP candidate for the NYS Assembly running against Helene Weinstein in the 41st AD launched an anti-Gay Marriage attack against his Democratic Party opponent, which was to be expected, and also against the Republican Leader of the NYS Senate, which obviously was completely unexpected.
Hayon started by citing a recent NYS Division of Human Rights case brought by a lesbian couple against a New York State “business owner,” Robert Gifford, who had refused to allow the use of a farm for the wedding of the couple on the ground that conducting such a marriage violated his religious beliefs. After noting that recent item, Hayon pointed out that, “More than half of the people whom Helene Weinstein currently represents believe it is a sin to accommodate a sin. Weinstein did not care to protect our religious freedom. Instead she voted for a gay marriage bill that persecutes religious people.” In his conclusion to the attack on Weinstein, the Brooklyn GOP Assembly candidate said, “If the Division of Human [Rights could] determine that Gifford discriminated, Gifford could be forced to pay a fine for acting according to his faith.”
Some GOPers have said if Hayon’s release had ended there, “...it should have been enough....” As the socially conservative candidate of the Brooklyn GOP and Gerry Kassar’s Kings County Conservative Party, most say that such an attack against Weinstein would have been expected, and thus not really subjected to criticism. However, Hayon didn’t stop there. He continued his socially conservative attack on those who caused the Gay Marriage Bill to become law with a direct verbal assault on the Republican State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos. According to Mr. Hayon, “Shortly before the gay ‘marriage’ bill passed, people affiliated with Jews for Morality met with Dean Skelos, warned him of the consequences, and Skelos still allowed this small business killing legislation for a vote. Skelos failed NYS citizens as a leader of the Senate.”
Some believe that Hayon broadened his attack to the Republican Senate Leader Skelos to benefit or at the behest of Republican State Senator David Storobin, who is now running against Simcha Felder, the Democrat-Conservative Parties’ candidate who is being supported by Dean Skelos.
The buzz is that Hayon is getting serious blowback on this release from two separate and distinct sources — some Orthodox Jewish supporters of Weinstein, who claim to be against gay marriage — and several organization-type Republicans for the attack on Republican State Senate Majority Leader Skelos.
An interesting question is whether State Senator Martin Golden will run along with Hayon in about twenty EDs that Golden shares with Hayon in the 41st AD, or ignore Hayon and stick with GOP Senate Leader Skelos, his boss in the State Senate. Golden has been mentioned as a possible alternative to Skelos as GOP leader in the State Senate and Golden claims to have been strongly against gay marriage in the past. However, according to a very active person in the Storobin campaign, Golden's stock has fallen on that count lately, especially among certain members of the Orthodox Jewish Community, who have been newly put into Golden's SD.
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