Contents:
- SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE REACH ALL-TIME HIGH, SURVEY FDS
- HOW CONGRS ACHIEVED A HISTORIC BREAKTHROUGH ON GAY MARRIAGE
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
- GAY MARRIAGE AND THE DEMOCRATIC BASE
SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE REACH ALL-TIME HIGH, SURVEY FDS
More pennts who lean toward the Democratic Party (81%) favor gay marriage than Democrats (71%). Liz Cheney of Wyomg -- a break om her past stance on the issue, which publicly put her at odds wh her parents and sister, who is gay. "I've ma clear my support for gay marriage years ago.
Support for gay marriage at 70% for first time. A small mory of Amerins (27%) supported legal regnn of gay and lbian marriag 1996, when Gallup first asked the qutn.
HOW CONGRS ACHIEVED A HISTORIC BREAKTHROUGH ON GAY MARRIAGE
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. As recently as 2004, nearly twice as many Amerins opposed than favored allowg gay and lbian people to marry legally; by 2019, public opn had reversed, wh 61% favor and 31% opposed.
“I have suggted to others that not only would I like to see Roe, Casey, and Griswold on ntraceptn dified but I’ve also ma clear my support for, for gay marriage years ago, ” she said. “There was once tth to when nservative Christians said people of fah oppose gay marriage, ” he said. In her rearch, Twenge said she’s found that as the US beme more dividualistic and Amerins stopped viewg gay and lbian people as a monolh, their attus toward same-sex marriage beme more posive.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
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. 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. This tells somethg about the future of gay marriage, given the domance of the "civil rights" narrative the public is monly known,.
GAY MARRIAGE AND THE DEMOCRATIC BASE
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 . Amerin bs culture is creasgly pro-gay.
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.