Posted on 12/15/2013 11:06:06 AM PST by kobald
The last year marked a number of milestones for the gay marriage movement, as it adds to its list of legal and legislative victories, earning approval from a majority of Americans along the way.
The two largest victories came from the Supreme Court in June, when justices struck down the Defense of Marriage Act preventing same-sex couples from receiving federal benefits, and invalidated an effort to restore Californias Proposition 8 banning gay marriage...
On the legislative front, six states, Rhode Island, Delaware, Minnesota, New Jersey, Hawaii and Illinois, legalized gay marriage in 2013, with marriages taking place in each state save for Illinois, where the law will be effective June 1, 2014.
That makes for a total of 16 states where gay marriage is legal. Four states, Oregon, Nevada, Wisconsin and Colorado, also allow civil unions for same-sex couples.
And the gay rights movement as a whole is only becoming more popular nationwide, leading many to speculate that its the fastest-moving civil rights movement in U.S. history. A July Gallup poll found that 54% of Americans think same-sex couples should be given the same rights as heterosexual couples. And in that same poll, 52% of Americans said they would vote for a law legalizing same-sex marriages across the country...
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Can we just elect a horse to the Senate and get this whole experiment over with?
True! LOL!
Illegal slave contracts victories...
Globally, its been a bad year for them.
What win? Trapped in an SS “marriage” with someone who more likely than not is a psychological nightmare of a human being?
It’s not the “gay marriage” movement. It’s the homo-fascism movement.
I don’t know how many people caught that one, but I did—and I think it couldn’t be much longer now.
"The company has made it my responsibility today to put an end
to 100,000 years of being weirded out by gays. "
The quickest way to kill the drive towards ‘Gay Marriage’, is to kill off the IRS.
With no marital benefits for non-working spouses, then the desire to “tie the knot” disappears.
The main thrust will be to get the Federal Government out of the marriage business. Marriage isn’t mentioned in the U.S.Constitution.
The America-hating, anti-God atheist movement has done bad either. Their war on Christmas blitzkrieg is really on a roll this year. It’s already bigger than the Nazi blitzkrieg in the Ardennes back in December ‘44. Yikes! Tomorrow in December 16th. It’s been 69 years!
Many horses are smarter than most Senators.
The new ‘normal’.
“The company has made it my responsibility today to put an end to 100,000 years of being weirded out by gays. “
And next year will see even more “progress.”
I predicted this a couple of years ago and was robustly chastised on this forum for doing so. I don’t approve, but I do recognize the trend and where it is headed.
Take government out of marriage and they’ll lose interest.
Nope. This campaign has very little to do with marriage.
It’s a campaign to enforce not tolerance but celebration of their behaviors. It will continue till any who disagree are driven into the shadows, much like anti-Semites and open racists have been.
I’m all for gay marriage. I can’t wait for gay divorce court on cable, as I watch them fight over who gets the bichon frieze (I know, minus 5 for spellin g)
can I marry my baseball glove now?
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