Posted on 06/19/2010 8:25:41 PM PDT by Steelfish
What's Ahead For Same-Sex Marriage?
June 18, 2010 With a federal court considering a challenge to California's Proposition 8, a 2008 ban on same-sex marriage, The Post asked state residents, pollsters and others what it would mean for the cause of gay marriage if the law is overturned. Below, responses from Scott Keeter, Joe Mathews, Morgan Meneses-Sheets, Ayelet Waldman, Dianne Feinstein and Jarrett T. Barrios.
SCOTT KEETER
Director of survey research at Pew Research Centerx
There certainly could be a public opinion backlash if Proposition 8 is overturned in the courts, but it's impossible to say how large it might be. Pew Research polling in 2003 and 2004 detected an uptick in opposition to same-sex marriage after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws against sodomy and the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that the state cannot forbid same-sex marriages.
By 2006 this surge in opposition had faded, but many proponents of same-sex marriage remain concerned about the possibility of a backlash against from their activism. In an August 2009 Pew Research poll, 42 percent of those favoring same-sex marriage said that supporters should not push too hard on the issue because doing so could create bad feelings against homosexuals; 45 percent disagreed.
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Jarrett Barios? YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME?
POS
Except here in Our Benighted Commonwealth, where all attempts to put the ukase of the Supreme Judicial Court before the voters will be thwarted in saecula saeculorum.
What part of 0 for 31 at the ballot box don’t these people understand?
What part of sinful sexual deviates who blaspheme God makes tour black heart “sink” ,you FB?
Did the b*lls in her pants sink too?
Well, that’s a mighty balanced article - Five pro-gay-marriage advocates and a famously liberal-biased pollster!
My heart sank the last time this corrupt b***h was re-elected.
You are being too kind.
I heard an obscene joke on a cable movie last night that would apply to Feinstein. Needless to say, I really can’t post it.
If even Constitutional Amendments can be overturned by the courts, we have lost one of the bedrock means of people being able to influence governmental policy. No matter how we vote, no matter how we play by the rules and win, the referees simply take it upon themselves to determine the score. It’s a dictatorship by committee.
That's what I love about WaPo -- their conscientious efforts to get varying opinions from across the political spectrum. Such balanced reporting! /s
• SCOTT KEETER, Director of survey research at Pew Research Center
• JOE MATHEWS, Senior fellow at the New America Foundation
• MORGAN MENESES-SHEETS, Executive director of Equality Maryland
• AYELET WALDMAN, Author based in Berkeley, Calif.; her next novel, "Red Hook Road," is to be published in July
• DIANNE FEINSTEIN, Democratic senator from California
• JARRETT T. BARRIOS, President of Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
That’s the way the ELCA did it.
Even when referee after referee upholds the score, the leftists just shop for yet another referee who is willing to negate all the other calls.
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