Doug Pensinger wrote:
>
> John wrote:
>
> > At 01:14 PM 2/19/2004 -0600 Dan Minette wrote:
> >> Why not civil rights, it started the same way. Indeed, the initial data
> >> supports that.
> >
> > I certainly was aware of the "Impeach Earl Warren" Movement when I made
> > my
> > post, and I certainly don't mean to imply that there is a single
> > difference
> > that produced the differing outcomes of the civil rights movement and the
> > abortion movement.
> >
> > Still, I do think that legislative legitimacy is important, and despite
> > the
> > occasional Supreme Court decision on this issue, like Brown vs. Board,
> > the
> > key decisions in the Civil Rights Movement were ultimately taken by
> > Legislatures, and thus had a bit of legitimacy too them.
> >
> > In my mind, however, the track of the homosexual marriage movement is
> > much
> > more closely following the track of the abortion movement than the track
> > of
> > the civil rights movement.
>
> I would argue the opposite, especially considering that same sex marriage
> _is_ a civil rights issue.
>
> One salient point might be that younger people are generally in favor of
> same sex marriage whereas older people are generally against it, so you
> would expect that in a few years opposition would probably fade away. I
> doubt this is the case with abortion.
I think he's arguing it on a courts vs. legislatures standpoint.
Looking *just* at how court rulings went and how legislation was
written, which is it paralleling better at present?
I'm not up on any of the three well enough to give a detailed analysis.
Perhaps someone else is.
Julia
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