Generation Gap
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To review: A major reason that bigots were so desperate to enact as many gay marriage bans as they could, as quickly as they could, was not just the short-term conservative-theocratic political maneuvering in the 2004 election.
There was also the awareness by these same social conservatives and theocrats that, despite their insistence that they were a broad, wide and deep — and enduring — majority, age-based polling clearly shows that young people simply do not oppose gay marriage the way their parents and grandparents do. As some have phrased it, "Twenty years from now no one will understand how states could have passed such amendments."
But perhaps 20 years is not the correct number. Maybe it's 46.
1961:
2007:
Twenty years or 46, it really is a matter of time. Or, to corrupt Churchill: This is not the end of the beginning, it's the beginning of the end.
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Note that the "Boys Beware" video is a much-edited version. The complete 10-minute video can be viewed here. Note also that it was jointly produced by a local police department and public school district — presumably with taxpayer dollars.
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Note also that I am of course not a fan of the "Alan Shore theory of pharmaceutical economics." But that's another blogpost.
There was also the awareness by these same social conservatives and theocrats that, despite their insistence that they were a broad, wide and deep — and enduring — majority, age-based polling clearly shows that young people simply do not oppose gay marriage the way their parents and grandparents do. As some have phrased it, "Twenty years from now no one will understand how states could have passed such amendments."
But perhaps 20 years is not the correct number. Maybe it's 46.
1961:
2007:
Twenty years or 46, it really is a matter of time. Or, to corrupt Churchill: This is not the end of the beginning, it's the beginning of the end.
---
Note that the "Boys Beware" video is a much-edited version. The complete 10-minute video can be viewed here. Note also that it was jointly produced by a local police department and public school district — presumably with taxpayer dollars.
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Note also that I am of course not a fan of the "Alan Shore theory of pharmaceutical economics." But that's another blogpost.
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