Posted on 09/03/2012 9:02:52 PM PDT by Racehorse
Eight years after California Sen. Dianne Feinstein said the push for legalizing same-sex marriage was “too much, too fast, too soon,” the Democratic Party will make history Tuesday when it is expected to be the first major party to endorse same-sex marriage in its platform.
While the plank packs no legal power, it marks a cultural milestone.
“Another important societal cue that things are shifting,” said Amy Simon, an Oakland pollster who is working for advocates who want to legalize gay marriage in Maine and Washington. “As people are working through their conflicting feelings on this, they're looking for cues and this is another one.”
The platform declaration could spark political blowback, and one of the nation's leading opponents of same-sex marriage already is trying to make it an issue in pivotal swing states that have passed laws codifying marriage as a union of one man and one woman.
“By doing this, the Democratic Party is basically telling voters in places like North Carolina and Florida that they're a bunch of bigots,” said consultant Frank Schubert, the strategist behind California's Proposition 8 and similar campaigns to bar gay unions in four states where marriage is on the ballot in November.
The National Organization for Marriage began airing radio ads last week in North Carolina, targeting religious African Americans.
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Interesting how the union folks in your family can be racist, yet make an exception for Obama because he’s feathering their nests.
That’s some serious hypocrisy, there.
As long as they perceive the Party of FDR can still put “bread on the table” then they don’t mind being labeled hypocrites. Problem is millions of so called God fearing people have this romantic idea of the Democrat Party being the refuge of “the little guy”, hence my original comment.
Look at at internals when State amendments get shot down when allowing homosexual “marriage”. When it’s strictly about one subject, the Democrats join the social conservatives, but if an election is broaden, economics play the most important role while social issues take a back seat.
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