Nevada:
Ballot Question 2: Gay marriage ban
Shall the Nevada Constitution be amended to provide that: "Only a marriage between a male and female person shall be recognized and given effect in this state?" ... The proposed amendment, if passed, would create a new section to Article 1 of the Nevada Constitution providing that, "Only a marriage between a male and female person shall be recognized and given effect in this state."
Yes: 67% No 33%
My friend Keith points out that we wouldn't even be seeing these initiatives if people didn't think gay marriage were a real possibility to be defended against. My take on it is that, before you win a debate you must engage your opponent, and before you do that, you have to get them to articulate their position for you to refute.
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A straight fertile friend of mine, who is a Gentile, recently married a man who is a Jew and who is, as far as we know, also fertile. Be fore the wedding I worked up a rough function of my friend's mother-in-law's preferences of spouse for her son as a function of three independent variables; the results are included here.
(See attached file: preferences.xls)
Note: Since the wedding things seem to have changed dramatically, and the mother-in-law seems to be genuinely happy at the the unholy union her son has insisted upon.
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