The bigger problem is allowing re-definition of many words in our language, gay and marriage being the two most obvious. The lords of evil purposely choose words that convey normalcy and benevolent feelings in their attempt at desensitizing the population to the underlying agenda.
Tragically, even many FReepers believe it.
The problem here is that when you go from 90% opposition 30 years ago to 75% opposition 15 years ago to a (possible) slight majority in favor today, it is ludicrous to pretend that a decades-long trend will suddenly reverse itself for no particular reason.
A much more likely scenario is 75% in favor by 2030 and 90% in favor by 2045.
I’ll always be one of the minority against, but that’s no way to maintain a political program in a democracy.
The moment the Courts try to enforce this evil deviancy onto my state, or the moment America seems to fully embrace it, is the moment I’ll be rooting for the whole country to burn to the ground. I might even be willing to lend the matches.
This is where I have to disagree strongly. Marriage is self-evident. It does not stand or fall by anyone's ability to "explain" it and its importance.
A society that needs such a self-evident truth explained to them is all but dead anyway. Not that we don't need to enumerate the obvious for some of the Products of Public Ejumacation that have been deprogrammed in logic.
“The truth about marriage has prevailed 32 of those 35 times.”
Did he miss Arizona failing to pass one and then passing it later, and I think CA passed it twice? Does anyone have a complete list of all the popular votes on ‘gay marriage?’
The ranges are spread between Minnesota’s 47% against their amendment in 2012 to Mississippi’s 86% for in 2004, as far as I can figure. There are states that would probably repeal their amendments right now by popular vote, and others that would seem to be a long way away from that. There are states that still don’t have an amendment or ‘gay marriage’ that would pass an amnendment easily right now and others that would might simply enact ‘gay marriage’ by popular vote. In general, I don’t think the picture is very rosy.
“And just last year at this time, marriage won in a landslide—61 percent to 39 percent—in a referendum in the swing state of North Carolina, a state Obama had carried in 2008 and lost narrowly in 2012.”
CA’s Prop. 22 passed by 61% in 2000 and Prop. 8 only passed by 52% in 2008, that’s losing 9% in 8 years. NC voted in theirs by 61% last year, basically tying the CA of 12 years before, something that would have made folks call you nuts if you would have told them that in 2000. All the states around NC passed their amendments by 75%+ except VA (57% in 2006) at least 6 years ago. Beyond the fact that it passed and will probably last a while before it is within reach of being repealed, not a positive trend as far as I can see.
Freegards
