The recent votes in Vermont and Connecticut would seem to refute that conclusion.

Ugh! Most self-respecting people would.

I’ll stick with Bruce’s idea. Why not poll on the question of civil unions?

I thought that would make you happy.

For most of those examples, there are legal remedies. (I’m having my roommate come in tomorrow to get my POA noterized, for example)

Seperation of powers my pasty white aft.

It hit me this is kind of the left/right arguement when it comes to same sex partnerships.

The conservative, societal change approach is slow, not as fun but has better odds. Moving though the legislatures and referendum process, one state at a time. California, with its ‘civil unions’ has paid off.

The far left is on tilt, playing against the odds (0 and 30, maybe about to become 0 and 31) because the one time they win, and make it stick, they get a big payoff.

Bruce, it sounds like NC is about to make a pre-emptive defense, much like Ohio did. We had a ‘Defense of Marriage Act’ on the books, but the referrendum process changed it to an ammendment, in part because it’s been shown time and time again that courts could care less about ‘acts’ (They don’t care about ammendments either, but that’s a rant for another blog)

The poll of 600 registered voters from Feb. 16-19 found that 76 percent support a constitutional amendment outlawing gay marriage, while 21 percent are opposed to such an amendment.

How many states have now amended their constitutions to prohibit gay marriage? 20? 30?

None of which would have happened if gay liberals hadn’t been trying to circumvent the people and cram gay marriage down everyone’s throats by activist judicial fiat.

Way to go lefties! You have set gay marriage back decades!

I’m sorry you are so insecure you need government recognition of your relationship. I’m sorry you don’t know the meaning of the word ‘right’. And I’m sorry you can’t seem to reply to Bruce’s point that they didn’t ask about civil unions.

Most of all, I’m sorry that you can’t see that pushing the same hostile attacking of those who disagree with you produces the same results.

Oh, that’s right; you and your fellow gay liberals are advocating exactly that.

And you wonder why people support constitutional amendments against you.

I suspect these polls reflect negative reaction to the more vocal prop-8 opponents in California and (reasonable) fear people have that some judge is going to impose this from the bench.

I agree. The Prop 8 opponents have set us back (pro-civil union and/or pro-marriage gays). And there’s a long and sorry track record of gay marriage being imposed from the bench, so it’s rational for people to fear that.

Considering that NC is a ‘New Blue’ state…that’s an awful lot of queer-hatin’, gay-bashin’, homophobic Democrats.

Give the man a prize. It was, after all, Kerry voters who passed those initiatives in 2004 – and Obama voters who provided the margin of victory of Prop 8 in CA.