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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (9839)1/26/2006 12:29:03 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 541477
 
Look at the voting results in numerous states when gay marriage laws or anti-gay marriage laws where put on the ballot. If you combine those who want nothing that resembles official recognition of gay marriage with those who support "civil-partnerships" but not "gay marriage", you have an overwhelming majority. If you just count people who want neither you still probably have a majority, and in the off chance that you don't (which I doubt) you definitely have a very strong minority.

Note that lack of support for gay marriage is not the same as desire to exclude gays from bars, clubs, ect.

A strong majority of those who are against gay marriage, and even the majority of those that are against both gay marriage and homosexual "civil partnerships" would also oppose the exclusion of gay people (or people of any particular racial group for that matter) from bars, restaurants ect.

You can't use opposition to gay marriage as a proxy for desire to exclude people from the so called public accommodations.

The one difference is that people can get away with anti-gay crusades because it's not enshrined in the Constitution.

Nothing in the constitution enshrines any equal treatment of people of different races by anyone other than government organizations. The civil rights law that goes beyond that is not part of the constitution so "enshrined in the constitution" is really not an issue.

Tim
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