Two strikg featur characterize the state of public opn about gay rights general and gay marriage particular.1 The first is the creasg level of
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GAY MARRIAGE, RELIGN AND THE COURT
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While the Amerin Fay Associatn promoted boytts of Disney and Amerin Airl for gay-iendly polici, gay rights anizatns went a different directn.
” Brian Brown — the executive director for California of the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage, the leadg sgle-issue anti-gay-marriage group, led by people wh close ti to lears the Catholic Church and the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats — boasted after the Grand Hyatt prott that Mr. The next year, he dispatched an ai to an Internatnal Gay and Lbian Travel Associatn nference wh an offer: $25, 000 sh and $100, 000 hotel creds for droppg the boytt. Only five dividuals, none of them well known natnally, ntributed over $100, 000 to any of the anti-gay-marriage mpaigns relig nomatns rpond to the new prsure.
THE PRICE OF GAY MARRIAGE
’”On the other si, however, new donors emerged beyond the tight circle of gay philanthropists who fund marriage-equaly advocy past electn cycl. 5 ln to a mpaign to pass Referendum 74, which would legalize same-sex marriage the state, proponents outspent opponents more than five to pro-gay-marriage activists ually creded chang their persuasive msagg to their improved mpaigns, their most obv new advantage me the form of rourc. There was only one week 2012 when anti-gay-marriage ads outnumbered pro-gay-marriage ads the stat wh November ballot measur, and the largt major media markets, pro-gay-marriage mpaigners averaged a two-to-one advertisg then, lls for boytts — as part of a broar iologil e rather than a narrow prott agast specific bs practic — have grown so equent that Amerin polics often feels like a proxy war between rporatns.
When Equaly Matters unearthed donatns to anti-gay om the fay that owns Chick-fil-A, some gay activists proposed boytts, while Republin policians elevated eatg the cha’s sandwich to somethg of a prciple. Letters|Gay Marriage, Relign and the Court ADVERTISEMENTlettersRears take issue wh an opn wrten by Jtice Clarence Thomas and joed by Jtice Samuel Drago for The New York TimTo the Edor:Re “Thomas and Alo Raise Doubts on Same-Sex Marriage Rulg” (news article, Oct.
6):Whout a ht of irony, Jtice Clarence Thomas, addrsg gay marriage an opn joed by Jtice Samuel Alo, wrote that “those wh scerely held relig beliefs ncerng marriage will fd creasgly difficult to participate society. People this untry every area of life om marriage equaly to adoptn to health re ncern that those who oppose gay marriage will be perceived as bigots whout acknowledgment of the history of adly bias agast those the L.