Hoe legislatn difyg protectns for gay marriage passed spe the fact that a big majory of the Hoe Republin uc opposed .
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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.
”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.
REPUBLINS SAY THEY'RE NOT COMG FOR GAY MARRIAGE. THEY SAID THAT ABOUT ROE, TOO.
“The gay marriage change is unlike almost anythg else terms of how much public opn has changed a short number of years, ” he says.