Sectn 2: Long-Term Views of Homosexualy, Gay Marriage and Adoptn | Pew Rearch Center

Contents:

• OPN: CONSERVATIVE VS. LIBERAL: GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE WON, BUT OTHER LIBERAL CS WILL PROBABLY STGGLE TO COPY ITS SUCCS
• SECTN 2: LONG-TERM VIEWS OF HOMOSEXUALY, GAY MARRIAGE AND ADOPTN

OPN: CONSERVATIVE VS. LIBERAL: GAY MARRIAGE

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.

GAY MARRIAGE WON, BUT OTHER LIBERAL CS WILL PROBABLY STGGLE TO COPY ITS SUCCS

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.

SECTN 2: LONG-TERM VIEWS OF HOMOSEXUALY, GAY MARRIAGE AND ADOPTN

This tells somethg about the future of gay marriage, given the domance of the "civil rights" narrative the public is monly known,.