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A Symposium on the Politics of Same-Sex Marriage—An Introduction and Commentary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2005

Gary M. Segura
Gary M. Segura
Affiliation:
University of Iowa
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The morning of November 3, 2004, was an extremely difficult time for gay and lesbian Americans. The reelection of President George W. Bush, and the simultaneous passage of anti-gay marriage amendments in 11 states, was as resounding a defeat as any social group is likely to experience in American politics. Worse, the emergence of the analytically vague phrase “moral values” from the exit polls and some arm-chair analysis by the pundits had already raised to the level of conventional wisdom the assertion that Senator John Kerry had lost because of the issue of same-sex marriage. Even Democrats, trying to extract some meaning and direction from the disappointing outcomes, appeared to conclude that the marriage issue had played an important and costly role. To gay and lesbian Americans, the headlines that morning might as well have read, “We lost. And it's your fault!”

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , April 2005 , pp. 189 - 193
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© 2005 by the American Political Science Association

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