[a fool in paradise]

The emerging national majority in favor of same-sex marriage is built on high levels of support in well-educated metropolitan areas, like Seattle, Washington, Minneapolis and Raleigh, N.C

Apparently you have to be schooled in the "new morality" that says bug chasing and bath house sex are "the new normal".

[Ulmius]

well-educated metropolitan areas, like Seattle, Washington, Minneapolis and Raleigh, N.C MMMM, is the bias smacking in this article... Look, if a broad walk of life (even those "ignorant rednecks" down in Alabama) views something like gay marriage as immoral to their lifestyle, and there is a majority of them that are not causing gays direct harm or impeding their lifestyle as private citizens, they have a right to block gay marriage from their state if they don't want it. There's other states around Alabama where they can go. And if getting the legal or tax benefits that a normal couple can get without special circumstances in a state like Alabama is an issue to them, they can go to their lawyers and interest groups as American citizens have a right to do to settle the matter in court or raise peaceful awareness among society, if that society is receptive, to change the issue on a local level. It is not a federal issue, but the states' and the peoples' issue, according to the Constitution. As a former Alabamian, I have seen few people treat gays there badly or persecute them, at least where I lived. There are good, wholesome rural people in the countryside where having some sweet tea with on their porch is quite a wonderful and memorable activity, so it peeves me when these leftists try to stereotype them; they just have a different set of morals. Such hypocrites.