'Washgton Post' lumnist: Landri fails to lead on gay marriage - Baton Rouge Bs Report

Contents:

• MARY LANDRI SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE THE ONLY WAY THAT MATTERS
• BREAKG DOWN THE GAY-MARRIAGE HOLDOUT FAL FOUR
• WHY SENS. LANDRI AND PRYOR OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE
• THE FAL THREE: THE DEMOCRATIC SENATORS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
• THE NE SENATE DEMOCRATS WHO STILL DON’T SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
• LANDRI FAILS TO LEAD ON GAY MARRIAGE
• THERE ARE NOW ONLY THREE SENATE DEMOCRATS WHO OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE
• ‘WASHGTON POST’ LUMNIST: LANDRI FAILS TO LEAD ON GAY MARRIAGE

MARY LANDRI SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE THE ONLY WAY THAT MATTERS

Now that South Dakota’s retirg senator Tim Johnson has announced his support for gay marriage, most news s are reportg that there rema only three Senate Democrats who have yet to jump on the marriage-equaly bandwagon.

And sce there are no official l for judgg what, exactly, “supportg gay marriage” entails, you uld feasibly place her on eher si of the marriage equaly bate.

BREAKG DOWN THE GAY-MARRIAGE HOLDOUT FAL FOUR

But Landri, along wh every other senator, won’t actually have the opportuny to vote on gay marriage for the foreeable future.

A nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage won’t be g to the floor of the Senate ever aga.

Mary Landri Supports Gay Marriage.

WHY SENS. LANDRI AND PRYOR OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE

The morate powerho are the only remag Democratic senators who haven’t e out support of gay marriage — but only one n be the last Democratic senator not to support gay marriage. Jon: Wh a strong recg base nservative Arkansas, Pryor is load wh reasons to oppose gay marriage and has no reason at all to evolve through 2014. Otherwise, Pryor remas the favore to be the last anti-gay-marriage Democrat the Senate.

THE FAL THREE: THE DEMOCRATIC SENATORS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE

Breakg Down the Gay Marriage Fal Four. "But my state has a very strong nstutnal amendment agast gay marriage and I thk I have to honor that, " Landri told didn't sound like he was about to change his stance an terview wh KFSM, the CBS affiliate for Fort Smh, Bentonville and Bentonville. "I am opposed to gay marriage, " he told the TV statn via e-mail.

THE NE SENATE DEMOCRATS WHO STILL DON’T SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE

The senator said he has talked to gay and lbian iends, who have strsed that their sexual orientatn is not a also told KFSM that he is uncid on the topic of benefs to same-sex upl and said he would revis the issue after the Supreme Court l the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) Supreme Court heard arguments late March challengg DOMA, and jtic were skeptil that the law was nstutnal bee ni benefs to same-sex upl. So timg is ccial here: It's one thg to e out and say you're for gay marriage before the urt l, which is expected sometime this 's also the qutn of electoral polics.

Hagan, one of the Democrats to support gay marriage, is up for re-electn 2014 a swg state that Obama lost 2012 but won 2008. What's more, North Carola voters overwhelmgly approved a ban on gay marriage last third holdout on gay marriage is Sen.

LANDRI FAILS TO LEAD ON GAY MARRIAGE

I'm talkg about the number of Democratic senators who are opposed to gay marriage.

THERE ARE NOW ONLY THREE SENATE DEMOCRATS WHO OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE

Whatever he says, we'll have to take Pryor at his word, though he has some pla polil reasons to oppose gay marriage, startg wh the fact that Arkansans passed a nstutnal amendment banng same-sex marriage 2004 – wh 75% of the if the US overall has unrgone a sea-change, there's ltle sign that opn Arkansas has altered much over the past ne years.

‘WASHGTON POST’ LUMNIST: LANDRI FAILS TO LEAD ON GAY MARRIAGE

Late last year, a Universy of Arkansas poll found that 55% of Arkansans were agast any legal regnn for same-sex upl, cludg gay marriage and civil unns. In polls taken last year, only about 30% of Amerins opposed regnizg same-sex upl any official the same poll, only 18% of Arkansas adults thought gay marriage should be legal; when civil unns appear on the qutnnaire as an alternative, support for gay marriage generally drops.