New York Senate now unlikely to approve marriage equality legislation?

06/08/09 CBS News (source: Gay Marriage Watch):

The latest news appears to increase the odds that the New York Senate will not approve the state's marriage equality legislation:

Call it a coup, call it a devious plan to change leadership, but at the end of the day Democrats are out of power in the New York State Senate and Republicans were [in power].

06/08/09 NY Times:

The change upends the agenda in Albany, where Democrats had assumed power in the Senate in January, with 32 seats, after more than 40 years in the minority.

06/08/09 New York Daily News (reporting on the situation just before today's "coup"):

Senate Dems, who took control of the chamber from Republicans last year, have a slim 32-30 majority. But they are as many as five votes short of passing the gay marriage bill. Majority Leader Malcolm Smith has said he won't bring the bill up for a vote until he's sure it will pass.

06/09/09 update

06/09/09 Marriage Equality New York:

ALBANY — Pedro Espada Jr., the new State Senate president, said in a radio interview on Tuesday morning that he personally wanted to bring same-sex marriage to a vote, news that will give some encouragement to gay activists who read defeat into Monday’s Republican Senate coup.