BTW, 2013 a landmark year for gay rights....

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    and as the polling shows....it's just going to get better as the years go on-

    "A seismic — and generational — shift

    The change in public opinion in favor of same-sex marriage is among the most dramatic on any public-policy issue in the past decade. And much of that shift is due to young people, born after 1980, coming of age and bringing with them more liberal attitudes on the subject. Seventy percent of millenials aged 18 to 32 said they support same-sex marriage in a March 2013 Pew poll, almost twice the 38 percent of baby boomers who back it.

    That generational disconnect is also visible in some major cultural gay milestones this year. Actress Jodie Foster, 50, and NBA player Jason Collins, 34, both formally came out as gay in 2013 — the Foster at the Golden Globes and Collins in the pages of Sports Illustrated. But among many younger Americans, the idea of being in the "closet" itself is becoming increasingly antiquated. In California, high school students elected the nation's first transgender homecoming queen, and mainstream TV shows like "Glee" have depicted young, openly gay teen characters for years."

    http://news.yahoo.com/2013-gay-milestones-182348539.html

    A basic fact.....older folks who oppose gay rights....eventually "aren't around", while the younger ones who support gay rights will be.

    I'm old enough (haha) to remember when the Religious Right wanted to boycott ABC for having Billy Crystal play an openly gay character on "Soap"......

    yet today? They can't raise a good rally against "Glee"....which ironically enough is produced by Fox Entertainment, owned by that same Rupert Murdoch who owns Fox News.

    http://news.yahoo.com/2013-gay-milestones-182348539.html
     

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