- 17-year old Pakistani peace activist Malala Yousafzai will split this year's Nobel Peace Prize with 60-year old Indian activist Kailash Satyarthi for their work with children's' rights to be educated.
- The US Supreme Court has blocked Wisconsin's voter ID law from going into effect for November, pending appeal from voting rights groups who say the law disenfranchises minorities and the poor.
- Another night of protests in Ferguson, Missouri drew police as a second black teenager was killed by police this week in St. Louis, ahead of this weekend's planned rallies of slain teenager Mike Brown.
- A US District Judge has blocked Texas's voter ID law from going into effect because of the law's "unconstitutional discriminatory purpose" of preventing minorities from voting.
- Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has unveiled the electric carmaker's newest product: an all-wheel drive, twin motor variant of the Tesla S sedan named the Tesla D.
Friday, October 10, 2014
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Abortion. Teaching evolution. Right-wingers have never stopped fighting on those issues.
I'm not sure they'll fight on SSM in 2016, because billionaire donors like hedge-funder Paul Singer are pro-SSM. (He bankrolls Christie and pro-marriage equality.) But eventually this will bubble back up from the grassroots, the way abortion did after Roe.
I'm not sure that's the case: Even though the anti-SSM groups are trying desperately to link abortion with same-sex marriage, it's not working with the larger public -- the "grassroots" support against same-sex marriage is pretty much limited to a shrinking demographic; even younger evangelical Christians are moving toward support. To most people, same-sex marriage isn't scary: they realize that it doesn't affect them, and as more and more people realize they know gay people, it means their friends, coworkers, and relatives can settle down and be happy. Really, what are they going to do, stage rallies with pictures of weddings?
They'll try to chip away at marriage rights, but anything that singles out same-sex couples is going to be shot down, and I doubt that the reaction from heterosexual couples will be positive toward anything that limits their right to get married.
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