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Graph of the day: Suck it, bigots
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Graph of the day: Suck it, bigots
Notice that trend. Not only is the law on the side of justice, but a recent CNN poll, for the first time ever, showed that a majority believe gays should have a constitutional right to marry (with the question phrased differently, 49 percent favored gay marriage itself).
Mark my words: Within a generation, those who want to deny marriage, adoption and anti-discrimination rights and military service to people solely on the basis of their sexual orientation will be regarded the way we regard George Wallace and Strom Thurmond and their segregationist ilk today.
As I wrote in my master's thesis on the subject (download, read and dissect the entire, 147-page thing here, if you're so inclined/really bored; ignore any typos, please):
Relatedly, gay rights activists might also take comfort in the fact that demographics appear to be working heavily in their favor: Among those under 50 years of age, and especially among those between 18 and 30, we see high support for gay rights and gay marriage. Through attrition, as the older — and more traditionally oriented — generations die and exit the voter pool, the increasing support for (and affect toward) homosexuals shown in the data looks only to continue increasing, thus making it entirely likely that, unless anti-gay rights activists can convince future generations that gay marriage will infringe upon societal cohesion, state gay marriage policies may become the norm, rather than outliers, in the foreseeable future. Even since 2004, when Republicans championed an anti-gay marriage amendment to the US Constitution, we have seen the saliency of this issue appear to dissipate: opposition to gay rights was not a central plank of John McCain's platform; and while court decisions regarding gay marriage in California brought an outcry from religious conservatives and an ultimately successful effort to overturn the court's ruling, it did not manifest in another full-throated bid to amend the US Constitution. Similarly, recent Democratic proposals to abolish âDon't Ask, Don't Tellâ and the federal Defense of Marriage Act have not been the clarion call of conservative opposition, the way they might have been a few short years ago.
It's a shame our supposedly liberal president is so decidedly on the wrong side of history — or at least, too politically timid to admit otherwise.
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^ God damn it, you beat me to it!
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