Morning Plum: The last stand of the anti-gay marriage warriors?

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Morning Plum: The last stand of the anti-gay marriage warriors?

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By Greg Sargent January 26 at 9:14 AM
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With the GOP presidential hopefuls trooping to Iowa this weekend to march to the drum of anti-”amnesty” warrior Steve King, the focus is now on the very real differences between the potential candidates on issues from immigration to Iran to gay marriage.
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But Ted Cruz and Bobby Jindal are suggesting continued resistance; both have talked about a Constitutional marriage amendment. Mike Huckabee has said states should not be bound by such a decision, and on Meet the Press yesterday, he seemed to stick by that position.

I don’t have any idea whether these anti-marriage-equality warriors are serious about their hints at keeping up the fight in the context of the coming GOP primaries or not. But the polling does point to an emerging divide among Republicans on this question that seems revelant to how all of this might unfold.

A Washington Post poll last spring found that Republicans are all alone in opposing legal gay marriage, by 54-40. And they also don’t believe the “equal protection” clause guarantees the legal right to marry by 54-38. Majorities of independents and moderates are in the Yes camp on both.

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1. Not to mention majorities among both men and women, whites, blacks, and Latinos...

The GOP is truly on the losing side of history here.

[Fearless]

2. And liberals, and the vast majorty of people of all backgrounds under 30 including conservatives

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3. Even many of the Republicans and conservatives

Will die out or come to support marriage equality eventually. The tide is turning, and I believe within the next ten years even the majority of conservatives will support marriage equality.

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4. It encourages me that we in the GLBT community are no longer legitimate

punching bags for Xtians and Republicans and others who would exploit popular hatred for points.

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5. We'll still have anti-equality warriors for a long after the marriage issue is settled.

The work ain't done yet :/