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Maine is poised to become the latest state in the nation whose legislature will formally approve gay marriage. Following Vermont and Connecticut's lead, it will, as early as next week, become the 5th state in the union to legalize the practice. Truly, we are reaching a tipping point on the issue, and it isn't trending in the direction that most Christian conservatives would like. Consider a new poll which shows that American support for gay marriage has gone up dramatically in just one month:
Forty-two percent of Americans now say same sex couples should be allowed to legally marry, a new CBS/New York Times poll finds. That's up nine points from last month, when 33 percent supported legalizing same sex marriage.
Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that since Iowa, Massachusetts, Vermont, California and Connecticut started allowing people of the same sex to wed, we have not seen society crumble at our feet. In fact, it seems that gay marriage may be very good for our societal fabric, and helps ail our tattered economy, to boot.
Of course, if you are disgusted by the idea of gay marriage, then economic arguments aren't likely to sway you. But it seems that this issue may be become a thing of the past faster than many could have predicted.
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PCL
12:38PM Apr 29th 2009
And if those true Conservatives out there want to ever be relevant as a party, they had best weed out those Christian Conservatives who still want to make gay marriage an issue. Otherwise, you will still just be the Republican Party with a new name.
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YoMa
7:59PM Apr 29th 2009
538.com has projected with stats that by 2012 about half the states will have approved gay marriage.
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(3) Ganon Hamberlin
10:41AM Apr 30th 2009
I have no problems with someone being "Gay". It is not my thing but if it makes them happy more power to them. I do have a problem with "Gay" Marriage. Marriage has always been between a man and a woman. That fact is woven into the fabric of the world since the beginning of time. If a civil union gives a "Gay" couple the same rights in every way that a Marriage license does why now decide to rip that fabric? A Marriage License is not going to change how people, regardless of their ideas on "Gay" Marriage, look at the couple because people who are all for "Gay" couples is going to say isnt that cute and people who are against "Gay" couples are going to say look at that its gross. A Marriage License is not going to change how people precieve them. It is only going to make people who did not give a hoot one way or the other mad because a time honored tradition has been destroyed and redefined for a select few with no additional benifits granted in a Civil Union.
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(-4) claya
2:29PM May 6th 2009
I have no problem with someone being gay. I have BIG problems with them forcing my kids to be taught that it is O.K. "Gay marriage has NOTHING to do with rights. It has everything to do with FORCING society to accept the lifestyle, and allow it to be taught by public schools. I am not O.K. with that. The hate and intolerance is coming from those that are asking for the same. Free speech does not equate to forcing my children to listen to it, using my taxpayer dollars to pay for it. All credibility is lost when the "gay" lobby claims thy aren't teaching it in schools, when it is very clear they are. That is the agenda, that is the end game. The mask is off. If you don't stand for something, then you don't stand for anything.
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