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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 10:36 AM Jun 2014

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


This is significant because it goes beyond the question of whether people support legal gay marriage. While we’ve seen a major cultural shift on that question — today’s 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 Court’s decision overturning the Defense of Marriage Act. As gay rights advocates point out, SCOTUS’s 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 OP
Civil Rights in the USA are always a struggle. Looking through the history of the US Civil Rights RKP5637 Jun 2014 #1
Only a matter of time now Fearless Jun 2014 #2
K &R nt Zorra Jun 2014 #3

RKP5637

(67,032 posts)
1. Civil Rights in the USA are always a struggle. Looking through the history of the US Civil Rights
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 10:44 AM
Jun 2014

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
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 10:58 AM
Jun 2014

Before the bleating bigoted voices of past generations are ignored completely. Change will come.

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