Pittsburghers views on Gay Marriage (licenses, office, business)

[Blackbeauty212]

Watch the Video from KDKA interviewing a wide demographic and getting their opinions on LGBT marriage after Obama's "Coming Out" if you will.

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/video...clipId=7197428

Notice the pattern here. I wonder if this any correlation to Pittsburgh as a whole
becoming much more progressive as it skews younger?

[UKyank]

I'd hope that most people recognize Obama's epiphany as nothing more then a pathetic attempt at pandering with no action to back up his 'personal view' - I mean wow, he shares the same opinion as dick cheney does after 4 years in office, & very conveniently just months before an election. Push for some legislation & I might be impressed - show me you have the cojones to really stand up for something you believe in & not just concerned with retaining his position through empty rhetoric.

[Blackbeauty212]

Ok Whatever this is not about Obama.....This is strictly about the stark differences in age demographic views on LGBT Marriage within the Pittsburgh region, KEEP IT ABOUT THAT!

[squarian]

I'd much rather have a gay marriage than a dreary one.

[I_Like_Spam]

Originally Posted by Blackbeauty212

Notice the pattern here. I wonder if this any correlation to Pittsburgh as a whole
becoming much more progressive as it skews younger?

I think it has more of a correlation with the reporters' preconception with what an opponent of gay marriage is supposed to look like and what a proponent is supposed to look like.

Interviewees aren't picked randomly, and many that were interviewed were never shown on TV. If Channel 2 wanted to air the interviews of young opponents and older proponents, they could have done that as well.

[BrianTH]

Originally Posted by squarian

I'd much rather have a gay marriage than a dreary one.

That, of course, is why gay marriages are such a threat to traditional dreary ones.

[squarian]

The only adventure open to the cowardly?

[BrianTH]

Originally Posted by UKyank

I'd hope that most people recognize . . . .

You can relax. A good working approximation of the net number of vote switches this will cause is zero.

[Goinback2011]

Why is the government even in the marriage business? Haven't you ever wondered about that?

If it were a purely private ceremony between two people, no legislation would be required one way or another.

When did the government start requiring marriage licenses anyway?

[squarian]

Originally Posted by Goinback2011

Why is the government even in the marriage business?

For the same reason that political primary elections are regulated by law: the government has an interest in the proper regulation of the affairs of the hopelessly desperate and desperately hopeful.