The Fight Isn't Over: Gay Marriage support DOWN among Americans

[AZ Progressive]

While one might say that the fight is in the courts, not about public opinion, I find it concerning that the trend toward acceptance to gay marriage seems to be reversing or stalling (at least according to this poll), indicating that the ignorant's may be making progress in stalling acceptance of lgbt people.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/22/gay-marriage-pew-research-center_n_5865122.html

"The latest survey by Pew showed 49 percent of Americans support same-sex marriage, down from 54 percent when the organization conducted a similar poll in February."

"The survey also found that 47 percent of Americans believe wedding-related businesses, such as caterers and florists, should be allowed to refuse service to same-sex couples for religious reasons."

[Behind the Aegis]

1. More people need to read this; it isn't sinking in.

[Ms. Toad]

2. Unfortunately, every time the tide seems to be turning,

opponents find a new tactic that appeals to liberals.

A few years it was the "concern" that churches would be required to marry same gender couples. It took a heck of a lot of reminding my good liberal friends that catholic churches have never been required to marry couples when one was previously married in a catholic ceremony to someone else, etc. - and that this was yet one more side show designed to detract from the central issue of equal civil rights for same gender couples.

Just last week, I had a conversation with my daughter about the current meme that the state favors marriage to encourage reproduction where the child is biologically related to both a mother and father (she was conceived via donor insemination, so that tactic played right into a sore spot for her)

And - the parallel "concern" now is the completely unrelated question about whether businesses can claim exemptions on a religious. Unrelated, because marriage is just one place where these "concerns" arise - so marriage, or not, they will come up. So one's position on marriage is completely unrelated to the exercise by businesses of religious beliefs.