Gay marriage ban passes in NC

[August]

Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

Do you have your own partisan poll that shows substantially different results?

The polls that I look at are the only ones that count. Election results. Nearly every time the question has been put to the voters in an election referendum it's been defeated. I'd say that's pretty substantial, wouldn't you?

And you ignored my question. What about people (like me) who don't care if gays form a permanent union but just feel it should be called something other than "marriage"? That seems to be the major objection here yet it seems not to have been addressed in your poll.

The big takeaway for me was the correlation between support and age, young people 18-39 show very strong support for same-sex unions, so it is only a matter of time before this issue is resolved once and for all.

Well that's assuming that the poll is accurate. Given that it was run by the Washington Post and ABC it's a pretty safe bet that they had a preferred result already in mind when they conducted it. If a Fox news poll comes up with different results are you going to take it as gospel as well?

You are also assuming that these young peoples opinions will not "evolve" as our Presidents opinion recently did.

Originally Posted by Mookiemookie

That's my thinking on it too. The inexorable march of progress will leave the bigots behind when they die off.

What happens after our generation dies off is not our concern. The way it's going I don't see this country lasting much longer anyways. In any case why not stop with the personal insults? Are they really that necessary to make your point?