In 1993 over 50% of states had amendments banning sam sex marriage. And i remember

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27. I'd like to expand on that just a little....

And this is not a new thought to me, but one that isn't recognized.

We elect persons to protect our way of life and to promote betterment and to provide assistance. They should NOT ever be directing goverment to implement their own personal ideals and standards. They should be implementing policy as a representative of their constutuency. If that constituency changes, they politician should also be changing to reflect their changing constituency.

If the public has overwhelmingly changed it's positions, and wants sensible gun control, the politicians should be working towards that goal. If the consituency overwhelmingly has changed their attitude on same sex marriage, the politician should be moving in that same direction along with the constituency. If the constituency wants health care for all, the Republicans should not have stood in the way of what a majority of the nation wanted to see happen.

Our biggest problems in government seem to be those politicians that do no evolve along with their consituency and try and showcase front and center their own personal desires and that of a small vocal minority.

It is for that reason I will never denigrade those leaders who have shown some ability to read what the people want at that time and are willing to make the effort "to make it so".