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Turbineguy

(37,206 posts)
Thu Jul 26, 2012, 09:10 AM Jul 2012

You Will Be Embarrassed About This in 20 Years (DOMA)

Just 16 years after a Democratic president signed the fatuously named Defense of Marriage Act, defining marriage in the U.S. as requiring one man and one woman, the debate over gay marriage is over.

Isn’t it? Even though DOMA is still on the books, even though most states that have voted on the issue have voted against same-sex marriage, all the energy is in the opposite direction. What seemed at first like a bizarre idea has become utterly conventional. By judicial decree interpreting the state constitution, by act of the legislature and someday soon by popular referendum, one state after another is falling. Same-sex marriage is legal in Canada.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-25/you-will-be-embarrassed-about-this-in-20-years.html

Somebody who thinks we'll be here 20 years from now. That alone is encouraging.

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You Will Be Embarrassed About This in 20 Years (DOMA) (Original Post) Turbineguy Jul 2012 OP
Because the loons who want to keep DOMA also believe the world will end in their lifetimes... onehandle Jul 2012 #1

onehandle

(51,122 posts)
1. Because the loons who want to keep DOMA also believe the world will end in their lifetimes...
Thu Jul 26, 2012, 09:21 AM
Jul 2012

...20 years is meaningless to them.

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