Reports that the Democratic Party may add support for gay marriage to s party platform are keepg wh a signifint shift of opn on this issue among Democrats natnwi. A new report fds that support for same-sex marriage among Democrats has jumped om 50% 2008 to 65% today.
Contents:
- REPUBLIN VIEWS ON GAY RIGHTS
- VIEWS OF THE REPUBLIN PARTY ON GAY MARRIAGE
- TWO-THIRDS OF DEMOCRATS NOW SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
REPUBLIN VIEWS ON GAY RIGHTS
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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.
VIEWS OF THE REPUBLIN PARTY ON GAY MARRIAGE
“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. More pennts who lean toward the Democratic Party (81%) favor gay marriage than Democrats (71%).
TWO-THIRDS OF DEMOCRATS NOW SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
Gay rights is at the foreont of many polil discsns today. The Republin Party platform has very fed stanc on gay rights, but the stanc seem to have swayed some the last few years. This opposn to the gay right to marriage do not e om a hatred of homosexuals, as many people try to lor , but om a belief that the stutn of marriage was set up as such by our foundg fathers, and has been fed this way throughout history.