Same-Sex Marriage Update

The following excepts are from Thomas Frank, Same-sex marriage back before voters, but mood different, USA Today, Oct. 13, 2006, at 4A: 

Two years after voters in 13 states approved constitutional bans on same-sex marriage, gay rights activists hope to reverse that course next month.

Colorado’s first-in-the-nation ballot proposal to create same-sex domestic partnerships had strong support in a recent poll. Polls in three of the eight states that will vote on banning same-sex marriage show the measures trailing or leading narrowly. * * *

Any victory for gay groups would be unprecedented. Voters have approved each of 19 proposals for state constitutional bans on same-sex marriage; support has averaged 70%. The questions began appearing on ballots in 1998 after a Hawaii court struck down the state’s same-sex-marriage ban.