Ruth Bader Ginsburg Thinks Americans Are Ready for Gay Marriage

[DemocratSinceBirth]

(Bloomberg) -- Americans are prepared to accept a U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said, pointing to what she described as a sweeping change in attitudes toward gays.
In an interview Wednesday in the court’s oak-paneled east conference room, Ginsburg also said President Barack Obama’s health-care law, which is under attack in a case before the Supreme Court next month, will be a central part of his legacy.
The 81-year-old justice discussed the public’s increasing acceptance of gays against the backdrop of resistance by Alabama officials to a federal court order that took effect Monday and made it the 37th gay-marriage state. With the high court set to rule on the issue by June, she said it “would not take a large adjustment” for Americans should the justices say that gay marriage is a constitutional right.
“The change in people’s attitudes on that issue has been enormous,” Ginsburg said. “In recent years, people have said, ‘This is the way I am.’ And others looked around, and we discovered it’s our next-door neighbor -- we’re very fond of them. Or it’s our child’s best friend, or even our child. I think that as more and more people came out and said that ‘this is who I am,’ the rest of us recognized that they are one of us.”


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-12/ginsburg-says-u-s-ready-to-accept-ruling-approving-gay-marriage-i61z6gq2

[LiberalArkie]

1. America is more than ready, but the south that is different. The south has not

accepted equality of the races, whether it is African American, American Indian, Asian, Hispanic or womens rights yet. Maybe another hundred years maybe 200 who knows.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. In theory if you change the law the culture will follow

Some times theory doesn't become reality or it takes a long time.

[LiberalArkie]

4. It will happen in the south, but a few more generations have to die off.

It is so funny really, before I retired, there was a 3ish guy (white) who is married to a black woman. They have several kids. In the break room you will hear all these racist jokes going on and even some told by him. I just can't figure out for the life of me how in the hell he rationalizes all that. Different generations. But things are changing, just slowly and weirdly.

I would have fully expected to hear about a gay couple being married and out at work and joining in on ridiculing gay couples being married. Only in the south.

[longship]

3. Gotta love that woman.

And of course, she is correct. (Maybe except Roy Moore and the American Family Association and a few other nutzoid religious kooks and religious kook panderers -- i.e., the GOP.)

R&

[hifiguy]

5. She is a national treasure.

Long life and good health to you, Justice Ginsburg!!!