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If gay marriage isn't such a big deal anymore, then maybe the religious right isn't, either.
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| Contributor | Penguin |
| Last Edited | Penguin May 20, 2009 08:33pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, May 21, 2009 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | If a state legalizes gay marriage and nobody notices, can gay people still get married? What if four states do it in six weeks?
As more states legalize same sex-marriage, the lack of outrage is striking. Forget the Armageddon we were promised. There's hardly even been a press conference. It would appear that gay marriage is just not that big a deal anymore and that the Christian right—long the main source of opposition—isn't either. Both are scenarios I find encouraging, but I question whether the nation's collective shrug can be fully explained by the natural ebb and flow of politics and social mores. What if neither the Christian right nor the issue of gay marriage was ever as central in American politics as the media or the far right would have had us believe? |
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