2011-01-19, 09:40 PM
Jamie_Kurosawa Wrote:Better idea for Gay Right Advocates... petition religious organizations to recognize not just legal civil unions under the law, but recognize that regardless of gender, two people can also be married in a religious aspect as well. That's where they need to start it and finish it, not Washington, D.C.
Trust me, we already do that. However, honestly, members of extreme religious organizations are not the electorate causing the slowed speed of change with this issue; it's the vast majority of Americans in between, who don't really have an opinion either way but are swayed towards one side depending on the best argument they hear and/or personal experience, such as having LGBT friends and family. This is a fundamental rule of thumb in United States politics for most "controversial issues," that at least 50+% of the voting electorate doesn't declare a "side" so staunchly as the other 50%, and can be influenced either way. Those are the people we're talking to the most.