Comments on: Evan Wolfson on the NJ Marriage Case http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/10/27/evan_wolfson_on_the_nj_marriage_case/ Remember, I do this to entertain me... not you. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:55:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Brutal Hugger http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/10/27/evan_wolfson_on_the_nj_marriage_case/comment-page-1/#comment-141127 Brutal Hugger Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:26:51 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=9988#comment-141127 The Zogby poll showed 56% of New Jerseyians favored marriage equality. The Eagleton poll showed 66% percent favoring civil unions OR marriage and 49% favoring marriage. Add in the margin of error, and the majority for marriage is pretty thin. Majority support for civil unions, though, is not in question. Legislatures do not always represent public opinion. If they did, our taxes would be zero and none of them would ever collect a paycheck. There's an intensity imbalance on the marriage issue. Here's my guess: on the right, people hate marriage equality so much that it drives them to the polls and plays a large role in deciding who to vote for. On the left, people believe in marriage equality, but your average voter doesn't get so angry about it that it makes more likely to vote. This is going to be a close one, and I am hopeful but only cautiously optimistic. And as for this being judicial legislation, I have no idea why you would say that. Have you even read the opinion? Do you have any clue what is in the New Jersey state constitution? The Zogby poll showed 56% of New Jerseyians favored marriage equality. The Eagleton poll showed 66% percent favoring civil unions OR marriage and 49% favoring marriage. Add in the margin of error, and the majority for marriage is pretty thin. Majority support for civil unions, though, is not in question.

Legislatures do not always represent public opinion. If they did, our taxes would be zero and none of them would ever collect a paycheck. There’s an intensity imbalance on the marriage issue. Here’s my guess: on the right, people hate marriage equality so much that it drives them to the polls and plays a large role in deciding who to vote for. On the left, people believe in marriage equality, but your average voter doesn’t get so angry about it that it makes more likely to vote.

This is going to be a close one, and I am hopeful but only cautiously optimistic.

And as for this being judicial legislation, I have no idea why you would say that. Have you even read the opinion? Do you have any clue what is in the New Jersey state constitution?

]]> By: emdfl http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/10/27/evan_wolfson_on_the_nj_marriage_case/comment-page-1/#comment-141110 emdfl Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:14:20 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=9988#comment-141110 Only comment I have to that letter is if the majority of the people in New Jersey wanted this why did it take judicial legislating to get it there? Only comment I have to that letter is if the majority of the people in New Jersey wanted this why did it take judicial legislating to get it there?

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