With the passage of marriage equality in New York, there has been a chorus of voices from the haters saying that this is why there needs to be a constitutional amendment to ban marriage equality at the federal level. Of course we have heard this for many years, but there has been a temporary up-tick as a result of recent events. I completely believe that there was a time when such a measure would have passed. Luckily, at that time, marriage equality was not really on anyone's radar to the extent that even the haters thought it was necessary, so there was not really any effort to do it. As time has gone on it has become more of an issue. However, a thought occurred to me this morning.
As I am sure we are all aware, as time has gone on, the trend has been for Americans to become increasingly accepting of gay rights, up to and including marriage equality (as indicated by the New York vote). Sure, there have been setbacks in the fight for LGBT rights, but the general trend is towards equality. Thus, the longer we go without an anti-equality amendment, the harder and harder it will be to actually get on passed at the national level. If you actually look at how the Constitution is amended, you can see the uphill battle that has to be fought by the homophobes. So far as I know there has never been a serious attempt at passing this type of amendment and there is certainly not one on the horizon. This makes me happy because as much as the likes of Bryan Fischer huff and puff about this issue, the likelihood of it coming to naught is very high because fewer and fewer people are on their side.
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