Support for marriage equality continues to grow<\/i><\/p>\n
By Brian Leubitz <\/p>\n
My apologies for being away for a while. I’ve been traveling, and is often the case after traveling, I got sick. So, as I try to ward off this nasty head cold, here’s some food for thought on the subject of marriage equality.<\/p>\n
As you might remember, we were polling we’ll on prop 8 several months before the election. Then the nasty (and untrue) ads about forcing your kids to get married to a gay, or something like that, started appearing. We had no coordinated response, and ultimately that became the story. But in the marriage debate, time is our friend. And as every year passes, the electorate becomes more favorable.<\/p>\n
And California’s great population of Decline to State voters are moving in the same way. Last week, the CA League of Conservaition voters released a poll focusing on DTS voters<\/a>, and the results were quite positive.<\/p>\n By a 2-to-1 margin, three out of five (60 percent)” decline-to-state “voters support allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry legally, with a resounding 44 percent who strongly support legal avenues to marriage. In contrast, less than a third (30 percent total oppose) oppose legalizing marriage for gay and lesbian couples and less than one out of ten is undecided.<\/p>\n In a July 2009 poll commissioned by Love Honor Cherish, Equality California, Courage Campaign and more than 30 other organizations to determine when to seek repeal of Prop 8, decline-to-state voters favored marriage by 49% with 18% undecided and 33% opposed.(LoveHonorCherish<\/a>) Now, to be clear, this is far from conclusive proof of anything. LHC has a ballot measure submitted in Sacramento, and is trying to rally support. However, as of yet, there hasn’t been any institutional support for the measure while the legal case is outstanding. With that case expected to drag on for months\/years, it seems unlikely that a consensus will be formed around the November 2012 date for a measure. No matter when it goes on, a ballot measure would be extremeley expensive. Now, that isn’t to say that I don’t support the concept, because I think we really need to win one at the ballot at some point to give the Supreme Court some courage.<\/p>\n And all the numbers are there, we can win in 2012. But from where we stand right now, we have a lot of work to do before we are ballot ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Support for marriage equality continues to grow<\/i><\/p>\n By Brian Leubitz <\/p>\n My apologies for being away for a while. I’ve been traveling, and is often the case after traveling, I got sick. So, as I try to ward off this nasty head cold, here’s some food for thought on the subject of marriage equality.<\/p>\n As you might remember, we were polling we’ll on prop 8 several months before the election. Then the nasty (and untrue) ads about forcing your kids to get married to a gay, or something like that, started appearing. We had no coordinated response, and ultimately that became the story. But in the marriage debate, time is our friend. And as every year passes, the electorate becomes more favorable.<\/p>\n And California’s great population of Decline to State voters are moving in the same way. Last week, the CA League of Conservaition voters released a poll focusing on DTS voters<\/a>, and the results were quite positive.<\/p>\n By a 2-to-1 margin, three out of five (60 percent)” decline-to-state “voters support allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry legally, with a resounding 44 percent who strongly support legal avenues to marriage. In contrast, less than a third (30 percent total oppose) oppose legalizing marriage for gay and lesbian couples and less than one out of ten is undecided.<\/p>\n
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