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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
by 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 agoThen 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.