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Early good news

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Hugo Schwyzer
on July 18, 2008
in GLBTQ
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The first comprehensive poll on Proposition 8 is out today, and it looks good for those of us who support marriage equality. In the Field Poll, 51% of Californians oppose amending the constitution to ban same-sex marriage, while 42% favor it. Too soon to pop champagne corks, but as long as Senator Obama can drive a good number of young folks to the polls, it looks like gay marriage is en route to its first ever victory at the ballot box.

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  1. 1 Craig
    Jul 18th, 2008 at 7:27 pm

    I’ll believe that when I see it. One can’t be too pessimistic regarding politics, I always say.

  2. 2 Hugo Schwyzer
    Jul 18th, 2008 at 7:42 pm

    Indeed. How often have progressives found a way to snatch defeat from near-certain victory? The tally of disappointments is great indeed.

  3. 3 Mermade
    Jul 18th, 2008 at 8:34 pm

    Indeed! ;-)

  4. 4 Stentor
    Jul 19th, 2008 at 12:28 pm

    it looks like gay marriage is en route to its first ever victory at the ballot box.

    Not so fast there — we in Arizona defeated an anti-marriage ballot measure in 2006.

  5. 5 Craig
    Jul 19th, 2008 at 1:44 pm

    …we in Arizona defeated an anti-marriage ballot measure in 2006.

    Arizona is a pretty standard red state. California, not so much.

  6. 6 Craig
    Jul 19th, 2008 at 1:48 pm

    Wait, by “anti-marriage,” did you mean “against gay marriage?” If so, ignore that last message; I’m too used to hearing this discussion through the “pro-family” dialect.

  7. 7 Hugo Schwyzer
    Jul 19th, 2008 at 5:43 pm

    Stentor’s technically right. What will make November 2008 different (deo volente, baruch hashem, etc.) is that in a state where marriage is already a reality for same-sex couples, voters will be asked to either dissolve those marriages or embrace them. And if they embrace them, as I suspect they will (by a narrow margin, natch), the religious right will have lost their key argument that the voters of a state had never given straight (sorry) approval to gay marriages.

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