# Did we just win the gay marriage issue? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 26, 2004, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-just-win-the-gay-marriage-issue/271329 "2004-10-26T23:26:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-just-win-the-gay-marriage-issue/271329/41 "2004-10-28T19:13:31Z")
> [@John Mace](#): > > You left out one key point, although it doesn’t necesarily change your conclusion. Kerry thinks prohibition of SSM should be written into the state constitution of MA, and one must also assume that he would think the same of any other state he was resident of. _Provided that_ Civil Unions with the same rights are created. He is on record as saying that Civil Unions are a necessary requirement of his support for the marriage ban. ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-just-win-the-gay-marriage-issue/271329/42 "2004-10-28T23:45:30Z")
> [@John Mace](#): > > You left out one key point, although it doesn’t necesarily change your conclusion. Kerry thinks prohibition of SSM should be written into the state constitution of MA, and one must also assume that he would think the same of any other state he was resident of. As Homebrew pointed out, this grossly misstates his position. He was willing to trade prohibition of SSM for full civil unions as a compromise: given that the alternative seems to be eliminating SSM without any civil unions. ---
**Author:** ![EvilHamsterOnCrack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@EvilHamsterOnCrack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilHamsterOnCrack)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-just-win-the-gay-marriage-issue/271329/43 "2004-10-28T23:54:18Z")
> [@John Mace](#): > > I said in my first post that I thought SSM would be legal in a generation or two. Maybe I wasn’t crystal clear, but that is what I meant when I talked about the older folks being the limmiting factor. I was just reading about this today in the New York Observer (great weekly paper, btw). I think the statistic was that 66% of those under 30 support SSM, and that 73% of those over 50 are against it. Something like that, but it definately showed that the people who have the problem with it are the older generation. ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-just-win-the-gay-marriage-issue/271329/44 "2004-10-29T04:32:46Z")
And since older people vote in higher numbers than younger people, well, the youngums will have to wait a while longer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-just-win-the-gay-marriage-issue/271329.md?page=2)