Replying to a RWer: Yes, the younger generation favors gay marriage

[question everything]

He: And you know this to be 100% accurate?

I: Yes, that is, if you accept TIME over Limpdick and Orally:

(snip)

Across the country, most surveys indicate that the majority of people remain opposed to legalizing gay marriage--57%, according to a recent Gallup poll. But as cultural battlefields go, opponents are on the losing side of demographics. Nearly 60% of those under 30 favor gay marriage, compared with fewer than 40% of older people. On other issues as well, attitudes have evolved in the direction of equality. Today more than two-thirds of Americans think that gays should be allowed to serve openly in the military and that their partners should have access to employee benefits like health care. Even Evangelical icon Rick Warren recently called the fight against gay marriage "very low" on his to-do list.

It's possible that the real battle will be in the gray areas, a fight more practical than ideological. As long as the laws are a patchwork, gay couples will face nasty tangles of rules and regulations if they move, separate or remarry. The 18,000 California couples who wed before Proposition 8 was passed remain legally married, but no one really knows the status of gay spouses who have moved to California from elsewhere (Iowa, Connecticut, Maine or Massachusetts, not to mention all of Canada). At least that will be true until the issue reaches a place that even California's ballot-crazy voters can't touch: the U.S. Supreme Court. But as with desegregation and abortion, a court ruling won't change attitudes overnight.


http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1901496,00.html

[Jennicut]

1. Demographics are gonna kill the Rethug party....with minorities too.

Hispanics are growing as a population and favor Dems right now.

[BOSSHOG]

2. In a completely unscientific survey

My household, consisting of two adults, both of whom are decades past being members of a "younger generation" fully support gay marriage and never vote for republicans. It sucks being them to many generations.

[fascisthunter]

3. seems "conservatives" have been on the losing side on rights

for many many years. Not a good track record to have, especially if you want to get elected.

"Daddy/Mommy... who were those people who were against gays getting married?"

wrong side of history... AGAIN!

[question everything]

4. And, of course, this is how the "old south"

switched from being a Democratic one to a Republican one.

I remember many years ago a woman told me how Republicans were the party that empathized with the underdog; after all, it was the party of Lincoln...

And, I would add, of Rockefeller and Goldwater, Eisenhower and Javitz, Chafee, Specter, Snowe and Collins: a party that, at least, believed in "live and let live."

[izquierdista]

5. Don't you mean Dad/Daddy

or Mom/Mommy? Caught you with your brain stuck in the past! :rofl:

[fascisthunter]

6. D'oh.... true dat

you got me :think: