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POPSDid Gays Deliver the Senate for Dems? It looks like they might have in Virgina where people mobilized (unsuccessfully) to defeat the anti-gay marriage amendment. I blogged earlier about how Virginia's amendment may have backfired on Republicans by bringing more African American voters to the polls, who were likely to vote for the amendment but against George Allen. Now it seems the gay and gay-friendly vote may have combined with the homophobic black vote to hand Democrats a victory in a close race. So, maybe gays did help deliver the Senate for Democrats. Now, what will we get for it? What can we reasonably ask for?
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POPSWhile the Gettin' is Good Gays & lesbians started leaving Virginia before the passage of the anti-gay marriage amendment in that state. Now gay & lesbian faculty at the University of Wisconsin are talking about resigning and leaving the state after the passage of an amendment that bars recognition of same-sex marriages and civil unions. Given that some of these amendments are written in such a way that they might nullify legal agreements between same-sex partners, that give them a few protections that approximate marriage, can you blame them? It will be interesting to see how amendments like these affect cities where the phenomenon mentioned in "The Rise of the Creative Class" has led to more gay-friendly policies. Will gays who have the means to do so abandon states where their legal relationships are not or may not be recognized? Why shouldn't they?
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POPSWaiting it Out & Changing Minds Another Christian blogger in support of gay marriage says that the trend of younger voters supporting marriage equality, and the recent increase in young people voting suggests that we could "just wait it out." After all, the over-60 voters will die off from one election to the next. But how long do we have to wait? And how do we protect our families while we're waiting? And who will stand with us while we wait.
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POPSMost Americans Are Anti-Anti-Gay Are they? If Gay Patriot West is right, then most Americans aren't anti-gay, but they'd just rather their politicians didn't talk about gay issues much. GWP claims that Santorum's defeat holds a lesson for Republicans, that expressing anti-gay sentiments will not help them get elected. But Democrats may have learned the lesson in GPW's second paragraph, that they can win elections if they back off on gay issues. If the best we can hope for on either side is that neither will be talking much about gay issues in the future, where exactly does that leave us.
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POPSIs the Gay Marriage b/w GOP and Evangelicals Over? Maybe. At the very least, some evangelicals think there are issues a lot more pressing than same-sex marriage, and some of them support equality rights and protections for same-sex couples even if they're opposed to calling it marriage. But the bottom line is that they'd just rather not talk about it at all. Considering what evangelicals usually have to say about gays and lesbians, that's a kind of progress, I guess.
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POPSHell Hath no Fury Like a pissed off queen. Really, I'm not sure why it's news that a gay man finds his representative supports amending the constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage, and decides to do everything he can to help defeat her. Or maybe it's just that the 527s aren't supposed to work for progressives the way they work for the other side.
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