Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Looking over their shoulders

wedding ringsAmpersand has an interesting theory about why anti-gay-marriage forces are in such a rush to get a federal law or other heavy duty smack-down for gay rights: because it won't be long before theirs is the minority opinion, as younger voters with more tolerant viewpoints replace their older counterparts.
Why is the leadership of the anti-equality movement so desparate to get marriage banned in the Constitution? Because they know that if they don’t win soon, and in a way that will be incredibly hard to undo, they won’t win at all.
He's got the opinion polling stats to back up this heartening claim.

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