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58% of the general public supports it, and well over 80% of people thirty and under. The battle for public opinion is over on this one--it's just a matter of how long it takes for gay marriage to become legal everywhere, and not if it's going to happen.
And the economy is improving and the the housing market is improving and most Americans support gun control and all the other BS lies the MSM is pushing. Complete manufactured propaganda. Lies.
It doesn't matter what percentage of the public support it or not, just as it didn't matter that in 1967 most Virginians didn't support marriage between a white person and a black person. It only mattered what the Supreme Court thought:
Quote:
WARREN, C.J., Opinion of the Court
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
388 U.S. 1
Loving v. Virginia
APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA
No. 395 Argued: April 10, 1967 --- Decided: June 12, 1967
MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court.
This case presents a constitutional question never addressed by this Court: whether a statutory scheme adopted by the State of Virginia to prevent marriages between persons solely on the basis of racial classifications violates the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. [n1] For reasons which seem to us to reflect the central meaning of those constitutional commands, we conclude that these statutes cannot stand consistently with the Fourteenth Amendment.
I stopped reading pages ago, but why does this remind me of a couple of months back when we heard that black voters and students were going to stay home from the voting booth, and that Romney was going to win by a landslide because the polls were biased? I sense the same lack of reality, inability to deal with logic, and desperation...
I stopped reading pages ago, but why does this remind me of a couple of months back when we heard that black voters and students were going to stay home from the voting booth, and that Romney was going to win by a landslide because the polls were biased? I sense the same lack of reality, inability to deal with logic, and desperation...
Had it not been for Hurricane Sandy, Romney would very likely have won.
Had it not been for Hurricane Sandy, Romney would very likely have won.
How do you figure that? The states impacted by Sandy were almost entirely blue states, and none of them were swing states--the D vote was down in those states because of the hurricane, but Obama still won them. Obama won Ohio, which was all he really needed with everything else he had. If Romney was going to win, he was going to have to carry Virginia and Florida as well as a host of others, and he lost them. It's been six months and my memory tends to get a little rusty about electoral vote strategies, but I do know that Romney didn't carry any of the states he needed, and that's why Obama won the electoral college by a landslide. What on earth did the hurricane have to do with it?
Here's what I see on gay marriage--it's highly likely that the SCOTUS is going to throw out prop 8, and gay marriage will be legal. If for some reason it doesn't--which again, I find unlikely--support for gay marriage has nearly doubled in the last decade. It's an issue that many have evolved on, with better education and the realization that we all know gay people--they're our friends and relatives. In states where gay marriage is currently legal, the sky hasn't fallen. I don't see the supporters of gay marriage backing down on this issue, and they will continue to build public support. As more people support gay marriage, and as the senior citizens (who are the primary opposition) die off, we will eventually have a constitutional amendment to pass it. As I said earlier--it's not a matter of IF this country will pass gay marriage, it's a matter of WHEN.
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