I knew I was gonna like New York Governor David Paterson when a day after he was inaugurated into the very office his predecessor was ousted from in the Gov's Gone Wild! Sex Scandal, he called a press conference to announce that both he and his wife had had extramarital affairs.  Like, loads of 'em!  With just everyone!

Now, he's defying the politics of sexual hypocrisy AGAIN by calling on his fellow New Yawkahs "to recognize what he called the basic common sense of allowing gay men and lesbians married elsewhere to gain the same rights here as heterosexual couples."

Here's how he actually put it: "People who live together for a long time would like to be married — as far as I’m concerned, I think it’s beautiful." I am definitely feeling the love.

I mean, talk about beautiful: the way he introduced the topic of gay marriage by talking about his Uncle Stanley and Uncle Ronald:

When he was growing up and his parents would go out of town, he and his little brother would stay in Harlem with family friends they called Uncle Stanley and Uncle Ronald.

Uncle Stanley and Uncle Ronald, he said, were a gay couple, though in the 1960s few people described them that way. They helped young David with his spelling, and read to him and played cards with him.

“Apparently, my parents never thought we were in any danger,” the governor recalled on Thursday in an interview. “I was raised in a culture that understood the different ways that people conduct their lives. And I feel very proud of it.”

Beautiful.