Can you please provide a link to a sampling of these reports you read?

Thanks.

The basis of our democracy is that the people’s will is by its nature unknowable and therefore the people’s will need not be justified or made accountable to a federal aristocracy that claims to be superior to the will of the people. That argument is what “human rights” is really all about and it was at the heart of the successful campaign in Maine to sustain the people’s veto of homosexual marriage. However according to this media report, the "Alliance Defense Fund" is so incompetent that they are effectively undermining everything that NOM sought to do in Maine, New York, New Jersey and elsewhere.

Fact: the one-sexed arrangement is not illegal. Fact: But neither is marriage one-sexed or sex-neutral.

Anyway, misleading survey questions about "legalizing" something that is not illegal will produce misleading results.

On the other hand, it is interesting how the SSMer will suddenly find great merit in majority opinion -- at least in these kinds of surveys -- but will also disparage majority opinion expressed in lawmaking and direct votes on marriage measures.

Double standard, much.

Nope. But I doubt they are listening to their own words, much less to the pro-marriage arguments. They are disconnected because of the sword of identity politics and its heavy reliance on emotivism.

Brian said: "'The Dede Effect' surely helped persuade some squishy GOP state senators of a basic political truth: It is a bad idea for a Republican to vote for gay marriage.

Across the country, direct votes on state pro-marriage measures have drawn the support of more Democrats and Independents, combined, than Republicans. Likewise, more self-identified liberals and moderates, combined, have voted for state pro-marriage measures than have conservative voters.

Sure there is proportionately more support for marriage among conservatives, who are more likely to be Republicans, but the pro-marriage support runs across partisan and ideological divides. Marriage is a winner because marriage unites Americans. More and more, as the SSM merger is rejected openly, this support is expressed electorally and in less formal forums. When people who are soft supporters of the SSM merger understand that the namecalling of SSMers does not decide the matter, they tend to reaffirm marriage as the union of man and woman. They reject the emphasis on identity politics and reconsider the special reason for the special status of marriage in our society. That reason is extrinsic to identity politics (of all sorts) and stands against the mushy thinking, the anti-social hostility, that has fueled the drive toward the SSM merger.

The SSM campaign has probably already peaked and will face a steady decline as marriage supporters draw more respect for the dignified and professional approach that NOM has brought to the national stage via local victories.

Brian said: ". We will never give up fighting for the truth, for common sense, for democracy, for civility, for the idea that we are made male and female, and meant to come together in love in marriage, for life."

Thank you Brian. Thank you NOM. Thank you pro-marriage New Yorks and marriage supporters everywhere.