ME, MD and WA passed gay marriage into law by vote of the people in 2012. I will be very surprised if a bunch more don’t vote it in this year.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a shift in public opinion so dramatically fast.
The president’s official (though not real) opinion as of 18 months ago is now widely considered to constitute hate speech.
I think if the courts don’t play ball with them that is what we will probably see in some places. But I don’t think we will have any repeals by popular vote until the courts force them to fight that way. So far has any state repealed their amendment that way?
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a shift in public opinion so dramatically fast.”
It’s pretty amazing. In my opinion a result of it being framed as a ‘civil right’ and the conditioning to think that the state actually defines marriage. Whenever we started to vote on the issue it tacitly reinforced the idea that ‘gay marriage’ is indeed possible just as long as judges, pols, or the voting majority agree that it is. That’s the only way the state has to define marriage, at least in the modern era.
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