I think this is going to mobilize evangelical Christians. Despite all the media propaganda, there is a majority that supports traditional marriage, across all demographics.
“I think this is going to mobilize evangelical Christians. Despite all the media propaganda, there is a majority that supports traditional marriage, across all demographics.”
I guess that depends on which stats you’re looking at.
I saw a poll that showed around 60% support for gay marriage.
Now I’d bet that it wasn’t that high before it was a done deal. But I think more people than you may think aren’t going to care about this at all after this news cycle.
Whether you want to admit it or not, the gay lobby has some power. Look what they pulled off in Indiana and Arkansas.
Yes, but more than the white evangelicals who have formed the core of the modern “religious right.” This is an issue which infuriates lots of traditional Catholics, black evangelicals, Orthodox Jews, and even a fair number of secular people.
The margin of victory in California against gay marriage — a deep blue state — was provided by Hispanics and blacks who usually vote Democrat.
Getting to 50 percent is key.
The radical left is overplaying its hand. There are a lot of people who don't think the government has any business telling two men or two women what to do in their bedroom who don't think bakers, florists, and pizza places should be shut down because they won't cater to a gay wedding. Some of those people are even supporters of gay marriage who don't think gay marriage will affect anyone except gays, and then they wake up and get angry when told that people who oppose gay marriage will be forbidden from objecting to it.
If I were a supporter of gay marriage, I'd sit quiet and let people get used to the “new reality” of the recent Supreme Court decision, rather than giving Republicans a wedge issue to turn out huge numbers of angry voters who know the next president will appoint at least three and possibly more Supreme Court justices.
However, the extreme wing of the group pushing gay marriage shows no indicator they're slowing down. On the contrary, they're pushing the accelerator on the car.
That may well work in places like San Francisco and Greenwich Village, but it's poor politics in lots of other places.