Posted on 01/26/2014 1:49:03 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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Video: Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring has concluded that the state's ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional and he will no longer defend it in federal lawsuits.
Public opinion on same-sex marriage has shifted so dramatically in recent years that Democratic groups now see the issue as a critical way to mobilize voters in a slew of races up and down the ballot.
Just a decade ago, widespread opposition to gay marriage did just the opposite, allowing Karl Rove to mobilize conservatives in 13 states and help reelect George W. Bush as president.
The changing political dynamics were on full display this week as Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring (D) announced he would not defend the state’s ban on same-sex marriage on the grounds that it was unconstitutional. Herring won a close election with strong support from gay-rights groups, and his decision infuriated conservatives, who accused him of violating his oath to uphold state laws.
Ballot initiatives on same-sex marriage are already in the works in Oregon, and possibly Indiana and Ohio, this fall...
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What will be the Left’s next platform? Incest? Child brides? Nambla?
They are correct, it will mobilize voters, TO DEFEAT IT AND DEMS!
Uh not, lying ComPost. He lied to Virginia voters and stabbed them in the back.
It would be interesting to get ahold of NAMBLA’s membership list.Wonder how many DC politicians are members of that diseased group.
Correct! What’s next for them? 2014 is the last hope for us.
It is the COURTS over-turning of the Voters wishes in those states, that got homosexual marriage implemented.
The Democrats are severely mis-reading this issue --- I say let them keep mis-reading it.
They are right though, that voters will be motivated to get to the polls --- to defeat them in November!
Uh not, lying ComPost. He lied to Virginia voters and stabbed them in the back.
The members of NAMBLA are people I don’t want to know. They are sick!
I failed to bookmark the thread of video of the young woman confronting her former teacher over the phone about abuse that had occurred when she was a student; anyone seen it?
What needs to be analyzed are the people who will vote single issue on it, and those for whom it will be a “tipping point” issue.
I’d guess at this point the largest popupation segment are the ambivilants. The ones who aren’t going to choose what candidate to vote for based on it.
After that, the single issue and tipping point voters against it, followed by those single issue and tipping point for it. So, net, in most places with a “balanced” electorate (not San Francisco, for instance) the issue favors candidates opposed to it.
Not familiar with that situation, perhaps someone else here is, though.
I doubt that. Our Nation has changed (for the worse). Poll after poll shows voters in favor. It won’t matter in the States in which we will win anyway. Where this is going to hurt us is in the purple States.
America doesn’t share our values anymore.
If the DemocRATS are smart, which they are not, they’ll ALL run on homosexual “marriage, ObamaCare and amnesty for invaders. All three are at the top of the low information voters’ “must do quickly before Americans wake up” list.
Watch the Grammy’s tonight. Marrying lots of couples, on air. ALL kinds of couples. Ugh alert.
Often times I think the Democrat party is just politically a lot smarter than the Republicans, but not on this issue. Typically they’ll pick something like the “War on Women” where they know none of the Republicans will have to balls to point call out Bill Clinton as the biggest misogynist in recent history or refute the old stereotype of the GOP as being the “party of white men”.
I don’t knof if they’ve picked the right fight on gay marriage. The segment of the population that really supports it is also the lowest-information segment, the kind Jesse Watters interviews on BOR that don’t know who Joe Biden even is. Lots of traditionalists don’t think much of all the gay crap, and they vote.
A&E might disagree.
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