Image courtesy of the EconomistInteresting poll was released today saying that American majority opposes gay marriage but support equal rights civil-unions. In addition, overwhelming majority supports openly serving gays in the military and allowing gay couples to adopt children.
It's interesting to think that the idea/word of "marriage" is so strong that the many people who oppose it are willing to give gay couples all the legal advantages but not the name.
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Makes you wonder, doesn't it? What other words have such strong emotions attached?
Also - esp in Prop 8 aftermath, there was that huge pile of articles about how immigrants voted overwhelmingly to pass it. So there you have the strong emotional attachment to only the idea (maybe specifically the idea of marriage in this foreign country?) and not the word...
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