Law professor Ann Althouse seems mostly okay with it from a legal perspective, echoing Andrew Sullivan, the deal exempting religious organizations from having to perform same-sex marriages was important to establish marriage as a legal contract and not a purely religious contract:
It's a BFD because it also insists on maximal religious liberty for those who conscientiously oppose marriage equality. A gay rights movement that seeks to restrict any religious freedom is not worthy of the name. And it makes me glad that we largely avoided anything that looks like that strategy, and that last-minute negotiations were flexible enough to strengthen the protections for religious groups, churches, mosques, synagogues and the like. The gay rights movement is about expanding the boundaries of human freedom - and that must include religious freedom if it is to mean anything....
Which is actually a very fair argument that the law does respect the religious freedom of New York's churches, synagogues and mosques while respecting the right of the state to sanction same-sex marriages.
The opposite response came from the folks at Weasel Zippers who quipped "Sanity takes it in the rear" and that the commenters are predicting NY just made itself an even larger target for Islamic terrorists. Nice.
The Volokh Conspiracy commenters are arguing that the states that have outlawed gay marriage have done so by overwhelming vote margins and that the will of the people cannot possibly be served here, but to their credit over there that argument is being shouted down.
And the at HotAir, Allahpundit was at least pretty neutral about it, but his comments section went pretty batshit fast, proclaiming teh gayz real agenda is to sue religious organizations that don't support gay marriage out of existence, and that the gay mafia is after your free speech rights to hate gays (so liberals are the real bigots.)
It's noise, mostly. But that's what you expect from the Noise Machine.
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