Same sex marriage became legal in July 2011 , not right before hurricane sandy at all.
I have thought about this a lot and wondered the same thing, but the fact is we can’t ever know. We should always be working on ourselves no matter what is going on.
I am shocked that someone here wrote that a bais yaakov invited Christine Quinn to speak. I am nauseated! What is happening in our culture? My husband and I were at a Friday night shabbos meal recently and politics as always came up. This one guy ( modern but shabbos observant kashrus observant grew up going o yeshiva day schools, said that he was ” fiscally conservative but socially very liberal”. I knew what this meant but my husband had to start up with him because he can’t understand how a person can be in favor or toeiva marriage but keep Hashem’s Mitzvos. I once said to someone that you can’t possibly consider yourself a Torah observer if you are in favor of gay marriage. I have literally lost friendships over my views because so many frum and modern Jews now think ok it’s 2012/2013 let’s get wih the times gay marriage isn’t what is used to be.