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The Engagement: America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage

Strict Scrutiny

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The Arguments for Equal Marriage Rights for Gays and Lesbians

I think a fun thought experiment would be like what if the state of California had only 10,000 marriage licenses or 100,000 marriage license to give out in a year. Would that person have been so quick to support equal marriage rights for gays and lesbians if they thought that that meant that their kid would now have to wait an extra six months to get married because they'd be online behind other people? And so the lack of scarcity here I think makes the shift in coalitions much easier and becomes make it a lot harder to organize a coalition and opposition as nobody ever was asked to give up something. We're always these incredibly apocalyptic, you know, like Rick Santorum saying like this is going

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