Marriage Equality Attitudes: Simply Knowing Gay People Helps, But Isn’t Enough
Late last month, Gallup released findings from a new poll demonstrating that opposition to marriage equality is higher among American adults who say they don’t know anyone who is lesbian or gay. The...
View ArticlePublic Opinion Supports Repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
President Obama is under increasing pressure to begin dismantling the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Last month the Palm Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, released a...
View ArticleNew Gallup Poll Data Reveal Disparities In LGBT Well-Being
In 1957, Dr. Evelyn Hooker’s groundbreaking study documented that, despite the conventional psychiatric wisdom of the day, gay men were not inherently maladjusted. More studies followed that similarly...
View ArticleChoice, Immutability, and the 7th Circuit Marriage Equality Decision
Last week, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld lower court rulings striking down anti-marriage laws in Indiana and Wisconsin. Even those of us who aren’t legal scholars can find good reading in...
View ArticleWhy Has Public Opinion About Marriage Equality Changed?
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has been quoted as saying the Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision went “too far, too fast.” Her comment has sometimes been cited in speculation that the Court...
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