This is an interesting report from a recent Pew Poll.
Where have we gone wrong in our quest for fairness to committed gay couples?
Even conservative Democrats oppose "gay marriage."
If marriage is a social "good," if stable committed relationships lead to better quality of life and health, better financial strength, if children raised in two parent households are better off than in single parent households- why not accept that those rights,benefits and duties apply equally to all Americans?
The word marriage has become an emotionally loaded term. It suggests a religious and spiritual approval and blessing- but is that what we are looking for? Or is it a quest for rights and protections?
More than wondering what has gone so wrong on this issue since it burst on the scene with the few States that approved it in some form and then the back lash in San Fran...my question is where do we go from here?
How do we get people thinking in terms of fairness and get off the lurid terms "sodomy" and "sodomite" and the sexual connotations.
Gay rights are not about any sexual act - but, rather, the right to love another human being openly and to build a healthy, open, loving relationship.
Sex will always be with us, with or with out laws, I think the movement is about domestic issues and the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Thoughts?
http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?PageID=948snip > The public is divided over whether homosexuality should be accepted or discouraged, but Americans continue to decisively reject gay marriage. Americans oppose gay marriage by nearly two-to-one (61%-32%), a margin that has remained stable since the middle of 2003.
Fully 90% of Enterprisers are opposed to gay marriage. Social Conservatives are close behind at 84% opposition (with 65% strongly
opposed, the highest of any group). Majorities in all of the other groups except Liberals also oppose gay marriage by wide margins. Conservative Democrats oppose gay marriage by roughly four-to-one (74%-19%), and Disadvantaged Democrats oppose it by (55%-37%). But 80% of Liberals favor gay marriage, more than twice the percentage in each of the other two Democratic groups. < snip