New Study Shows Pro-Marriage Legislators Win Elections

[FreeState]

PDF http://www.freedomtomarry.org/pdfs/pro-marriage_legislators_win_elections.pdf


New Study Shows Pro-Marriage Legislators Win Elections

Contrary to some political expectations, voting to support the freedom to marry and opposing anti-marriage measures helps rather than hurts politicians, a new study Pro-Marriage Legislators Win Elections released by Freedom to Marry unequivocally shows.

For many years legislators across the country have voted on laws aimed at ending the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage. Others have been asked to vote on state constitutional amendments aimed at discriminating against same-sex couples and their children by denying them the freedom to marry and other legal protections. A review of all of these votes from 2005 to the present shows that legislators who vote to end marriage discrimination for same-sex couples are consistently re-elected.


http://www.freedomtomarry.org/

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No more excuses for politicians that wont stand for us in public

[Fearless]

1. Corrolation does not equal causation

You see their first evidence comes from victories in Massachusetts, New York, California, and Connecticut, areas with decidedly liberal and pro-gay rights ideologies in the first place. And their further evidence coming from Virginia, Iowa, Texas, and Tennessee could be easily be caused by Dean's 50 state's plan. Or the fact that all of these elections occurred during the backlash against the neo-cons failures. Likewise a majority of Americans don't vote for or against someone based on their views of GLBTQ rights.

I'd like to see this article to be true, but pragmatically, it doesn't seem that way.


Flame away, I know you will.

[FreeState]

2. But Texas and Tennessee voted GOP

Tennessee

2004
1,036,477 Kerry
1,384,375 Bush

2008
1,087,437 Obama
1,479,178 McCain


Texas

2004
2,825,723 Kerry
4,518,491 Bush

2008
3,521,164 Obama
4,467,748 Bush

Virginia and Iowa as we know voted Dem.



I personally think people in general could give a crap weather a politician is pro-gay marriage.

[Fearless]

3. Yes I agree, but that goes both ways.

It also means that none of the evidence given is valid.

Like I said, I would really like to believe them, but I won't kid myself. I know what I've seen, and it's not acceptance.