How RNC Delegates Celebrate

We actually haven't heard much about same-sex marriage during the Republican National Convention, but it's certainly an issue neocons like to use to rally their base. Proposed constitutional amendments are on the ballot in Arizona, California, and Florida.

There is some good news, however. Temenos, an LGBT site, reports:

While our past track-record on these ballot measures is cause for concern, there are many reasons to be hopeful about election day 2008, not the least of which is shifting public attitudes about Marriage Equality. The number of ballot measures has dwindled from 11 in 2004, to 9, in 2006, to just three in 2008. Arizona, California, and Florida face constitutional amendments prohibiting marriage equality for same sex couples (Arkansas faces a related ballot measure restricting unmarried couples from adopting children or serving as foster parents). All three states have strong LGBT organizations, and a chance to win their respective fights.

Looks like it's losing some of its punch. Maybe that's because marriage has been legal in Massachusetts for awhile now and the earth hasn't stopped spinning. Vermont passed Civil Union legislation years ago, and there has been no discernible increase in divorce among heterosexual couples. Hopefully by 2012 opposition to same-sex marriage will be off the ballot altogether. Now that's change I could believe in!

h/t to Kevin at 9in10.org
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