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jack3566Will Gay Marriage Become a Front-and-Center Issue?
MSNBC and the New York Times are asking this question, “After [the] ruling, [is] gay marriage an issue again?” This is of course referring to the ruling here in California that took place yesterday and has already been briefly discussed here on this blog.
What do the writers and readers of The Political Inquirer think? Does the gay marriage issue steal attention from other issues like the state of economy or the Iraq war? Will this lead conservative religious voters to focus in on one specific issue during the general election and other elections? And how will the Democratic and Republican parties handle this issue? How will the presidential candidates handle this issue?
Filed under: Barack Obama, Culture, Democrats, Election 2008, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, John McCain, Politics, Ralph Nader, Religion, Republicans | Tagged: California, gay marriage
This same bruhaha came up with the civil rights movements and women’s Lib movement. Its amazing really. Take a listen to some of the old speeches from the 1960’s from people who were against civil rights for blacks. Take that speech and replace the word ‘blacks’ with the word ‘gays’ and you pretty much have a verbatim speech.
Its no big secret that Democrats and Liberals are much more open minded and accepting that Republicans and Conservatives. In January of next year this country will be run by Democrats. Hopefully they will be able to beat down some of the bigotry this country seems to foster for gay folks. Of all industrialized countries, America is the most bigoted towards gay people. Its time that stopped.
A minor issue, but an emotional one. It will have more impact in the voting booth than ever will be stated by the average voter.
Sure will, and it’s a shame.
I’m not sure I buy the court’s reasoning as being as sound and as strict as I’d like courts to be. But I do know that the opponents of gay marriage sound utterly ridiculous when they whine about judges overturning the “will of the people.” These same people supported judicial overturnings of duly voted laws for euthanasia without any feeling that the “will of the people” was important. And when states pass laws explicitly granting homosexuals the right to marry, there’s no question at all that they will use the courts to try and overturn or cripple these laws.
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