Marital blitz: this November, anti-gay-marriage bills will be back on ballots with a vengeance. But this time around, the gay and lesbian activist network is ready to play hardball.(REPORT)
American Prospect, The, March, 2006 by Graff, E.J.
DO YOU REMEMBER THE FALL 2004, GAY-BASHING festival? In 13 states, voters agreed to add to their constitutions a phrase like this one: "Marriage is between one man and one woman." The gay-bashing came afterward, when Democrats and liberal pundits declared that greedy gay folks had brought those initiatives on themselves with their foolish pursuit of marriage equality--and were therefore responsible for John Kerry's loss.
Political scientists have since debunked the claim that anti-marriage initiatives brought Kerry down. But here's the bad news: The anti-marriage ...
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