America Sees Sense At Last

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-33290341

As per usual, the Republicans are refusing to welcome this good news. We could see another 4 years of Democratic rule in the White House in 2016.

Do the Republicans ever learn ?

[sandyRoe]

I'm not sure that will win many votes in the Bible Belt.

[jim360]

5-4 majority is hardly resounding... small wonder the Republicans are going to resist. It's a massive decision -- the right one, albeit in a markedly different style from the same one in Ireland recently. In Ireland there was a clear and overwhelming popular support. In the US it's been forced through the Supreme Court. The argument, sadly, could roll on and on and on.

[jno]

And Kellie Fiedorek, a lawyer for an anti-gay marriage advocacy group, said the decision "ignored the voices of thousands of Americans".

Thousands? Well... that's not very tyrannical; the population's about 320 million. Hard to say what public opinion really is (as in the recent election polls here) but here's one recent one

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/poll-gay-marriage-support-at-record-high/2015/04/22/f6548332-e92a-11e4-aae1-d642717d8afa_story.html

[mikey4444]

The bigots are on the run in America, and the Republican Party is making a huge mistake by associating itself with them. They lost in 2012 for the same reasons that they will lose in 2016, and it wasn't all Sarah Plains fault then, by any means.

[jno]

maybe. The presidential election is much more a popularity-poll type of thing than UK elections, as it's literally between two people (though bizarrely it's not actually decided by individual votes). There's no saying who will win until you at least know who the candidates are. But congressional elections are different.

[mikey4444]

JNO....Its just that this issue of same sex marriage has got a wave of support behind it, in most of the enlightened world, and the Republicans find themselves on the wrong foot, yet again. They picked a weirdo religious guy as their candidate in 2012, and, not surprising he lost, and lost badly.

They seem not to realise that the world is changing and they aren't. They are being left behind.

[jno]

America isn't changing that much, and they don't feel any pressure to do something just because the UK does. Even that poll I linked to shows only 60% support for gay marriages, which is a decent majority but not indicative of a tsunami of changing opinion.

The point here is though that public opinion has nothing to do with it. The judges have interpreted the constitution, which is their job. Even if 99% of the population were against gay marriage, their ruling would have been the same: that the constitution gives gays the right to marry.

[trt]

I couldn't care less to be honest, as its only a piece of paper, but I am dead against Gay married people having children, whether adopted or in other ways.

[DTCwordfan]

Jeb Bush versus Hilary Clinton, the former by a large margin.....and don't forget three things, Clinton, seriously damaged goods from her past, and Bush, the most intelligent of GHB's children by a country mile and the most popular governor at exit of Florida, quintessentially a Democratic state.....thirdly, the more ISIL have a pop at Americans, the more they will swing to the Repubs.