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Morning Plum: A gay rights milestone
Source: Washington Post
BY GREG SARGENT
June 6 at 9:20 am
This, from a new Washington Post poll, is a milestone for gay civil rights:
Regardless of your own preference on the issue, do you think that the part of the U.S. Constitution providing Americans with equal protection under the law does or does not give gays and lesbians the legal right to marry?
Does: 50
Does not: 43
Does: 50
Does not: 43
This is significant because it goes beyond the question of whether people support legal gay marriage. While weve seen a major cultural shift on that question todays Post poll finds 56 percent in support the general idea of legal gay marriage can co-exist with some states keeping it illegal. But now support for a Constitutionally protected right to gay marriage has hit 50 percent.
In recent months, state laws banning gay marriage have been falling like dominoes, largely because of the Supreme Courts decision overturning the Defense of Marriage Act. As gay rights advocates point out, SCOTUSs ruling in United States v. Windsor stopped short of declaring a Constitutional right to gay marriage, but it paved the way for gay marriage bans to be overturned on the grounds that they violate equal protection clause, in places like Utah, Oklahoma, and Virginia.
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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/06/06/morning-plum-a-gay-rights-milestone/
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Morning Plum: A gay rights milestone (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jun 2014
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RKP5637
(67,032 posts)1. Civil Rights in the USA are always a struggle. Looking through the history of the US Civil Rights
have always been a tremendous struggle ... which I always found so strange even as a little kid for a country that always brags about freedom and equality.
Thank you for having posted this, it is refreshing.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)2. Only a matter of time now
Before the bleating bigoted voices of past generations are ignored completely. Change will come.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)3. K &R nt