• Egon [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Gay people can get married because queer people agitated for that right for decades, and they finally got influential enough that they could not be ignored. It had nothing to do with who was in power. It wasn’t because they voooted. The people who were in power were against gay marriage until the conditions demanded that they weren’t.
    Had the people in power not pivoted then agitation would have escalated until someone else got into power and pivoted.

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      no one voted on approving gay marriage; it became legal because of decision from the the supreme court that invalidated doma.

      the closes thing that makes your statement true is the respect for marriage act; which came 8 years after doma was invalidated and whose only real power is to give anti-gay bigots legal protections, since the supreme court already decided against anti-gay marriage laws.

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        My statement is that gay marriage, like all civil rights, was not won by voting, but because of agitation from a large group of people. The fact that it got instuted thru the supreme court furthers this argument, it does not lessen it.