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Via Political Wire: a recent New York Times/CBS News poll found growing support in the U.S. for same sex marriage. 42 percent of Americans now say same sex couples should be able to legally marry - up 9 points from just a month ago.
There's also a widening age gap among respondents which isn't a huge suprise considering that the under 30 age block went 66 percent for Obama in last year's election.
31 percent of respondents over the age of 40 said they support same sex marriage while 57 percent of respondents under age 40 said they supported it. That's a 26-point difference, people.
I also wanted to share super interesting predictions from Nate Silver - the guy who called the electoral college break down in November - on when each of the 50 states will vote against a marriage ban on FiveThirtyEight, which was posted following the Iowa Supreme Court ruling earlier this month.
Plus, I thought I'd throw in a mid-week happy and put this video out there again. This is the statement from Iowa Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal in response to Minority Leader Paul McKinley's attempt to overturn the Supreme Court's legalization of same sex marriage by ammending the state's constitution legislatively.
h/t bgallo on the polling data
This will happen. Not a question of if, but when.
These movements take us down a path of allowing someone to unite with anyone or anything.
This opens the door for brother-sister, man-dog, woman-plant unions. Is this just a movement to create a civil union on paper, or are all employers legally obligated to recognize this and extend benefits to the partners in these unions?
My motivation behind this post is protection of the sanctity of my own heterosexual marriage. I object to the whole thing, even for opposite sex unions. If you want the benefits of being married, get married.
......Psyche!! Just a lil comic relief. Seriously, with arguments like these coming from the other side, it should be serioulsy embarrasing for those that oppose same-sex marriage that they can't come up with an arguement a wee-bit more convincing. I challenge anyone who frankly believes in the above statements to offfer a NON-Biblical, NON-religious, NON-doctrinal, NON-dogmatic explanation as to why those who are, well, different, should not be allowed to have a civil marriage. Are those crickets I hear?
Oh, and thanks for the h/t AFY_Kathy!
its about love
woman and woman
as long as you love eachother
and whos to tell anyone only woman and men can marry
i think if man - man or women - women are allowed to date why cant they marry like everyone else
if this country is so damn free why cant we marry who we want its not fair to them