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- PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
- REPUBLINS SAY THEY'RE NOT COMG FOR GAY MARRIAGE. THEY SAID THAT ABOUT ROE, TOO.
PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
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. * republicans and gay marriage *
C., on June 26, 2015, after the urt legalized gay marriage natnwi.
Compared to prr reports, Democrats reported the same level of approval for gay and lbian marriage over the past few years. Gallup wrote, "This uld suggt that support for gay marriage has reached a ceilg for this group, at least for now. When Gallup first began askg this qutn 1996, jt 27% of Amerins endorsed the legal regnn of gay and lbian marriag.
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.
REPUBLINS SAY THEY'RE NOT COMG FOR GAY MARRIAGE. THEY SAID THAT ABOUT ROE, TOO.
”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.
“The gay marriage change is unlike almost anythg else terms of how much public opn has changed a short number of years, ” he says. Ron DeSantis and his “Don’t Say Gay” law to the newly adopted Texas Republin platform, which refers to homosexualy as “an abnormal liftyle choice.
Tammy Baldw, a Wisns Democrat who, 2012, was the first openly gay person to be elected to the Senate, to lobby her Republin lleagu hop of nfirmg support for the measure om 10 of them, which would give Democrats the 60 vot they need to overe a ’s been slow-gog so far, wh GOP members patg the bill as electn-year polics, sayg they haven’t read the bill yet, argug that ’s unnecsary and downplayg the threat of Supreme Court reversal – spe Jtice Clarence Thomas suggtg a ncurrg opn the Dobbs v.