{"id":5169,"date":"2008-10-31T04:01:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T11:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5169"},"modified":"2008-10-31T04:01:20","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T11:21:08","slug":"update-on-rauch-on-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5169","title":{"rendered":"Update on Rauch on Connecticut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little footnote to Jonathan Rauch&#8217;s comment that the marriage strategy is &#8220;exhausted and counterproductive&#8221;: according to a report from Connecticut,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new poll says 53 percent of Connecticut residents support last week&#8217;s state Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay and lesbian marriages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>42% oppose it. When you think about what the numbers most likely would have been even five years ago, for a tired old strategy, it doesn&#8217;t seem all that counterproductive to me. It certainly seems more productive than waiting around for the majority to decide that it&#8217;s time we were allowed to marry.<\/p>\n<p>This seems to be what Rauch favors:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/G2nsGtd7y3c&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/G2nsGtd7y3c&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Andrew Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/hunteratrandom.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/update-on-rauch-on-connecticut.html\">Hunter at Random<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little footnote to Jonathan Rauch&#8217;s comment that the marriage strategy is &#8220;exhausted and counterproductive&#8221;: according to a report from Connecticut, A new poll says 53 percent of Connecticut residents support last week&#8217;s state Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5169\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}