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Growing Support for Marriage Expansion

January 23, 2007 |

Whether one believes them it certainly causes one to pause. The movement is slowly sustaining its attempt through media, courts and legislation to gain ground.

(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - A majority of adults in the United States would forbid same-sex partners from entering wedlock, according to a poll by Opinion Dynamics released by Ipsos-Public Affairs released by the Associated Press. 51 per cent of respondents would favour a law that would ban gay marriage.

In 2004, marriage certificates were issued to same-sex couples by local governments in the states of California, Oregon, New Mexico and New York. In May 2004, the state of Massachusetts allowed gay and lesbian partners to apply for marriage licenses, the first state-sanctioned homosexual weddings in the U.S.

Already newspapers are beginning to treat the announcements of same sex couples as the same as any other heterosexual couple.

Only a handful of states have legalized gay marriage or civil unions, but that hasn’t stopped same-sex couples from announcing their intentions in newspapers across the country.

Of the 883 daily newspapers in the United States whose editors have agreed to publish news of a same-sex couple’s engagement or civil union, 319 have printed one, according to a recent survey by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. (GLAAD).

The movement keeps chipping away. They are taking stone and forming it into the image they have envisioned for the United States. Who remains now to speak? We shall remain to see if anyone is still willing.


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