California voters will be asked to affirm gay marriage rights on the 2024 ballot followg Prop. 8 ncerns about the state nstutn.
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- PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
- HERE ARE THE KEY SENATE REPUBLIN VOT ON LEGISLATN TO PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE
- CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
Hoe legislatn difyg protectns for gay marriage passed spe the fact that a big majory of the Hoe Republin uc opposed . * republican thoughts on gay marriage *
That's bee the polics around gay marriage are a ltle weird.
As recently as 2004, Republins ma opposn to gay marriage a top-tier e (some nservativ believe saved Gee W. But as public opn began to turn, Democrats reached a new nsens support of gay marriage and started gog on offense. The natnal GOP platform still oppos gay marriage.
HERE ARE THE KEY SENATE REPUBLIN VOT ON LEGISLATN TO PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE
Behd the succs of the Rpect for Marriage Act was a group of proment Republins, some of them gay, who worked to persua G.O.P. senators that embracg was a polil wner. * republican thoughts on gay marriage *
As the Hoe GOP's still-strong opposn to marriage equaly nfirms, there's legimate reason to qutn the assumptn that gay marriage is a settled issue.
CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
While there are legimate policy challeng at play, the spir of the bat has taken a turn, wh anti-gay "groomer" slurs om the 1970s makg a eback.
It's not hard to see how policians lookg to distguish themselv this arena might turn to gay marriage, perhaps wh the goal of gettg a new ban ont of the urt. Take Texas, where the state GOP reaffirmed s opposn to gay marriage their party platform jt last month. Only one Texas Republin the Hoe, Tony Gonzal, voted "y" on protectns for gay marriage yterday.
Erickson spearhead the anizatn’s efforts to mobilize morate Amerins to support marriage for gay upl by changg the nversatn om legal rights and benefs to the importance of makg a lifetime mment ont of fay and iends. ”Of urse, wasn’t so long ago when same-sex marriage was a non-starter for elected Democrats, the 2004 printial electn, the issue prented a polil quagmire for former senator and secretary of state John Kerry, a Massachetts Democrat who at the time opposed gay marriage but also opposed legislatn that would amend the nstutn to fe marriage as beg between a man and a woman. ”Support for gay marriage among the Amerin public and both parti has ntued to rise.