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A Gay Marriage Bradley Effect?
Some of the early exit polls suggested that California's Proposition 8 might lose narrowly (though I see CNN's weighted exits are now more consistent with the actual results). With 95 percent of precincts reporting, it looks all but certain that it is going to pass despite a Democratic landslide in the state, the controversy over the initiative's wording, and the fact that same-sex marriage was already in effect. All along, I suspected large numbers of black and Hispanic voters would turn out to vote for Barack Obama and against gay marriage. (Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians also voted more pro-life than whites.) With Arizona easily adopting a ballot initiative that was less broadly worded than the one that failed in 2006, every state that has gotten to vote on gay marriage has rejected it -- even blue states and states that have voted for it more than once. The only states that have adoped this innovation are the ones where the people can't vote or, in Massachusetts' case, the politicians won't let them.
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Kimberly| 11.5.08 @ 12:51PM
That last is also the case in Maryland, where the legislature has twice successfully used procedural tactics to keep the voters from having a chance to vote on a constitutional amendment. We might do something we'd regret, see, so they're just protecting us from us ourselves. Nice reasoning!
No1Inpartikuelar| 11.5.08 @ 1:53PM
This is the only thing I find disappointing about us as Americans. We did break ground yesterday with Obama's presidential election but I can't help but feel that we've stepped back a bit on an issue that I never felt was a political issue at all. Gay rights have been trampled on in my home state and soon in California as well. There is not sanctity in marriage other then the one a married couple creates, and to assume that 2 people who are gay and in love and want to spend the rest of they're lives together is a threat to a bound that thousands of straight couples get to share is absurd.....
lastly, Massachusetts' stance on not allowing it's people to vote on amendment issues is a good one. The masses change their opinion all the time. At one time the masses thought less of black people and people of color. Yesterday we elected an African American to the most powerful position in the world (and I am so proud of our nation right now because of it. I can tell my kids (if I ever have any) that they can be president and I have proof now that your color won't matter.) and if people can change their opinion about a race or ethnicity then how can the people make a decision to amend something about a persons lifestyle. I guess what I'm saying is that the people shouldn't be the ones making the amendments to "govern" people but rather making amendments to protect people. in all I think that's what's really important about amendments is that they are there to protect us not tell us what to do and an amendment like the one here in Arizona to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman is not what I know of the American ideal....
We did good by electing a black man into office but we failed a gay brothers and sisters by telling we don't want to see them married.
Bobbi| 11.5.08 @ 4:42PM
That's ok by me. Call me homophobic if you will. I refuse to give in to the homosexual revolution. Marriage is specifically made for a man and a woman, period. Obviously 62% of Floridians and a majority of Californians agree.
ruth| 11.5.08 @ 10:55PM
Excuse me while I cry crocodile tears. Someone has got to stop the tyranny of the judiciary!