“It wasn’t all that long ago that Proposition 8, which supported traditional marriage, passed overwhelmingly in deep-blue California.”
Prop. 8 passed by 52% in 2008. 8 years before CA passed prop. 22 by 61%. CA lost 9% in 8 years on ‘gay marriage’ with actual voters. In 2012 North Carolina passed its amendment by 61% and was hailed as a great victory, but all it really did was tie the CA of 12 years before, something no one would have believed had they been told that in the year 2000.
If anyone wants to know why conservative Christians have a hard time uniting to defend culture, simply search ‘Manhattan declaration’ on Free Republic, and read some of those threads. That happened around 2009, when there were less than ten states with ‘gay marriage.’
And when the first actual states had their amendments overturned by federal judges, that wasn’t a big story on FR. Instead, there were dozens of threads about a cable reality show star being suspended for saying he thought gay acts were gross right before the Christmas merch buying season and the start of the new season of the cable reality show.
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I had forgotten about the Manhattan Declaration. Looks like it was nothing more than a flash in the pan.