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Yeah, and here's a third thing: Prop 8 support is mainstream TODAY! Sure, maybe it's extremely unpopular among the hackernews crowd (including myself) but let's

• zimpenfish 13y ago
  It passed with 52% 6 years ago with an allegedly confusing ballot paper. You can't extrapolate from that to what might happen if you repeated the vote today.
  • pdabbadabba 13y ago
    I'm not saying it would easily pass again if a vote were held today. All I'm saying this establishes is that opposition to gay marriage is not, in the community at large, a fringe view.
    • zimpenfish 13y ago
      ...in 2008 according to a possibly confusing ballot paper. You cannot in any way extrapolate from that vote 6 years ago to how things might be now. No sir, you cannot.
      • pdabbadabba 13y ago
        Then I suggest you go read some opinion polls. Here's a relatively recent one: http://www.gallup.com/poll/163730/back-law-legalize-gay-marriage-states.aspx http://www.gallup.com/poll/163730/back-law-legalize-gay-marr... Yes, a majority of Americans apparently now support gay marriage! Yay! But 43% remain against it. Of course, reasonable people could disagree about exactly what constitutes a "fringe view." But I doubt many would say that the term covers views held by 43% of the population. So, yeah, maybe the ballot was confusing, and maybe that was six whole years ago. But I'd say it is, nonetheless, a generally pretty accurate indicator of people's views on the subject.