2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Interesting Double Standard Here [View all]passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)but did not vote in favor of marriage. But he also explained that he did that because is was such a controversial issue in his state, to even come out with civil unions, and he said he wanted to give the state more time to accept it. Which was probably necessary. If you try to force people to accept something they are just not ready for, it can cause them to actually hang on even tighter to old standards...and that sometimes makes necessary change a little slower to progress...but it will happen.
I think he has actually been fine with same-sex marriage, but sometime politicians do what is right for their constituents, as long as it is not depriving someone of their civil rights. So to him the civil union gave them the legal rights they needed. But now that society has swung so far in favor of same-sex marraige, he is fully backing it.