Why Are All The Democrats Sudnly Pro-Gay Marriage?

Contents:

• TWO-THIRDS OF DEMOCRATS NOW SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
• SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE REACH ALL-TIME HIGH, SURVEY FDS
• WHY ARE ALL THE DEMOCRATS SUDNLY PRO-GAY MARRIAGE?
• WHY IS THERE MORE REPUBLIN SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE THAN FOR ABORTN RIGHTS?WHY IS THERE MORE REPUBLIN SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE THAN FOR ABORTN RIGHTS?
• TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
• THE FAL THREE: THE DEMOCRATIC SENATORS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE

TWO-THIRDS OF DEMOCRATS NOW SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE

A small mory of Amerins (27%) supported legal regnn of gay and lbian marriag 1996, when Gallup first asked the qutn.

SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE REACH ALL-TIME HIGH, SURVEY FDS

Hodg cisn 2015, support for gay marriage had reached 60%. For the First Time, a Small Majory of Republins Support Gay Marriage.

This uld suggt that support for gay marriage has reached a ceilg for this group, at least for now.

Adults, who were once holdouts support for gay marriage, now e down on the same si of the issue as young adults. In the space of two days this week voters North Carola approved a nstutnal amendment effectively banng same-sex marriage and US Print Barack Obama ma clear his view that gay and lbian upl should have the chance to wed.

WHY ARE ALL THE DEMOCRATS SUDNLY PRO-GAY MARRIAGE?

We Southerners have held the le for tradn and moral tth about marriage every time the issue has been put on the ballot how cisive the North Carola vote was, and given that gay marriage proponents have lost every state, even culturally liberal California, is temptg to thk we n stand athwart history yellg, "Stop! In my newsroom experience, is taken as given that any opposn to gay marriage n only e om rank would no more take a fenr of tradnal marriage serly than you would take a segregatnist serly - or so the thkg go.

Tryg to expla philosophilly why homosexualy is not the same thg as race draws blank is simply not somethg to be reasoned about, pecially not wh my generatn of journalists: too young to have seen the black civil rights movement, and who are not about to miss out on their own versn. Though I firmly believe there is only a superficial nnectn between gay marriage and ter-racial marriage, the legacy of the civil rights movement the South is precisely why I thk marriage tradnalists are gog to lose the long n.

WHY IS THERE MORE REPUBLIN SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE THAN FOR ABORTN RIGHTS?WHY IS THERE MORE REPUBLIN SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE THAN FOR ABORTN RIGHTS?

This tells somethg about the future of gay marriage, given the domance of the "civil rights" narrative the public is monly known,. Gay marriage opponents like to tell themselv that people get more nservative as they age - te, general, but unlikely this long as the tradnalist posn on same-sex marriage, almost universally held only 25 years ago, is treated as irratnal hatred and nothg but by the media, bs, and social el, there will be powerful social and psychologil prsure to shun .

Prejudice - eher the bad sense of mdls bigotry, or the good, Burkean sense - is the only thg keepg gay marriage at will not last, pecially as the social, legal, and mercial price for holdg fast to tradn creas, as certaly will, now that same-sex marriage mands the high ground the US social and cultural hierarchy.

TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE

Gay marriage plet the stutnalisatn of the sexual revolutn, agast which the forc of social nservatism and relig tradn have been pleasg as ballot box victori are, I see no reason for the long feat to reverse, at least not my lifetime. C., on June 26, 2015, after the urt legalized gay marriage natnwi. Compared to prr reports, Democrats reported the same level of approval for gay and lbian marriage over the past few years.

THE FAL THREE: THE DEMOCRATIC SENATORS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE

Gallup wrote, "This uld suggt that support for gay marriage has reached a ceilg for this group, at least for now.