What happened? Democrats and some republican politicians are unprincipled opportunists. So when it looked like it was politically advantageous to be against gay marriage, everybody was against it (look at the vote for DOMA). And as soon as it became clear that being for gay marriage could win the votes of the people on your side, every democrat jumped on the bandwagon.
Mark Warner was Governor of Virginia, a state which not only banned gay marriage but also civil unions, and he wouldn’t have come close to winning an election if he said he was for gay marriage. But now suddenly he is for it.
The real reason is that we have done a great job of teaching tolerance to the children. But we didn’t teach them the difference between tolerance and acceptance and encouragement.
And now, while they still cringe if you actually talk to them about what gay sex actually means, they just are “sure” that it isn’t “fair” that some people are “denied” their “right” to be “happy”. Even though nobody needs a marriage certificate to live together, to commit to one another, or to implement the structure of such an arrangement legally.
I heard a fellow call in a conservative radio show today in Texas.
He said he was all for it and more!
He said he was boofing a husband and wife and that he wanted to marry them!
He never missed a beat, it was all logical to him.
Then a lesbian called in and said you should be able to marry 4 or 5 wymins and that age should not enter into it.
16? 12? 7?
Anything goes!
She too never missed a beat.
It’s all about love doncha know?
VA only passed its amendment by 57% in 2006. It would have passed by more if the wording wasn’t so strict, it seemed to bar any private contract between people like wills or medical directives, and the AG had to clarify what it actually meant. Plus Northern VA.
In my opinion, we have been conditioned to think marriage comes from the state, so many accept any impossibility as marriage as long as the state says so. To many they are simply contracts that can be broken and resumed between any parties the state decides. How does the state decide? It decides by whatever judges, pols, or the voting majority thinks of marriage at the time.
Freegards