After recognizing need to evolve on gay rights, GOP fails to evolve on gay rights

[babylonsister]

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After recognizing need to evolve on gay rights, GOP fails to evolve on gay rights

Posted by Greg Sargent on April 12, 2013 at 4:52 pm

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The Republican National Committee passed resolutions Friday reaffirming its commitment to defining marriage as between a man and a woman, and calling on the Supreme Court to “uphold the sanctity of marriage” as it weighs rulings on two landmark cases involving gay marriage. At the RNC’s spring meeting in Los Angeles, committee members adopted a slate of resolutions unanimously and without discussion, a committee spokeswoman said.

What continues to remain striking here is that support for gay marriage is not just increasing among Americans overall. It’s that support for it is even higher than overall among the very groups among which Republicans themselves say they need to boost their party’s appeal.

Take today’s NBC/WSJ poll. It finds support for gay marriage up to 53 percent among Americans overall. According to additional numbers sent my way by Hart Research, which helped do the poll, support for it is at 56-40 among women; among women aged 18-39 those numbers are 69-29. Among Latinos, a plurality of 49 percent support gay marriage, but among young Latinos those numbers are 60-33. You can probably see which way things are going here.

Meanwhile, among college educated whites, support for gay marriage is at 60-36. This group is increasingly important to the Democratic coalition; the Democratic Party is less dependent on culturally conservative downscale whites than in previous years, permitting it to evolve more quickly on social issues. (And, interestingly, there’s a wide gap between college educated whites and non-college whites on gay marriage; the latter group opposes it by 47-46.)

The picture is overwhelmingly clear. The country is moving forward on gay marriage rapidly, and apparently even more rapidly among the voter groups the GOP can’t afford to alienate over time. Republicans know this — the RNC self-examination itself reflected it, only a couple months before the RNC reaffirmed its opposition to marriage equality as a matter of party dogma.

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UPDATE: Numbers fixed among young women. It’s 69-29.

[byeya]

1. The RepubliKKKans don't have to evolove on gay rights. Gay rights will come - I hope - and

the GOP will have a record of opposition for their mouth-breathing base; gays will support the Democrats in slightly decreasing numbers since they are protected by law; and the GOPs will benefit from the short memories of the formerly oppressed while being free(talking about the hatemongers) to rail against the sins polluting the Christian Nation while being unable to repeal the laws.

It's keeping the hate shot alive for future elections.

[babylonsister]

2. Yes, but I think it will

bite the rethugs in the butt. Absurd move by them will work for Dems. Sure, they'll get a few votes from the likes of the conservatives, but considering how many Americans are okay with gay rights, this is flat out ridiculous, imo.

[Zoeisright]

3. The fucking GOP is devolving.

Right before our eyes, they are getting dumber, less coherent, meaner, greedier, and more piglike than ever.

[babylonsister]

4. No kidding. It is mind-boggling to me. nt