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Marriage Proposition: Traditionalists Won in California, But the Tide May Turn Against Them in the End (Politics) (On Same-Sex Marriage and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom)

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Title: Marriage Proposition: Traditionalists Won in California, But the Tide May Turn Against Them in the End (Politics) (On Same-Sex Marriage and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom)
Author : The American Conservative
Release Date : January 17, 2008
Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 71 KB

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IN A CLIP PLAYED ENDLESSLY on their televisions this fall, Californians saw San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom swaying behind a podium at a pro-same-sex-marriage rally. Biting his lip and lifting his hands into the air, Newsom announced in an emotive staccato, "As California goes, so goes the rest of the nation. It's inevitable. This door's wide open now." He flashed a reptilian smile before finishing, "It's going to happen--whether you like it or not." Under the headline "Tragedy," pro-gay-marriage journalist Benjamin Wachs wrote that Newsom's tone, "manages to cross an old-style revivalist preacher with an angry Jewish mother, [and] has turned voters who were willing to believe that gay marriage is about love into voters who are now convinced that it's about 'who's-in-charge-here.'" The scene made Newsom the unwitting star of the successful campaign to overturn California's Supreme Court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage. This wasn't the first time Newsom has inadvertently helped the cause of traditional marriage. His unilateral attempt to legalize gay marriage in San Francisco in 2004 helped energize social conservatives nationwide. That year, when exit polls showed voters prioritizing "moral values" over even terrorism or the economy, 11 states voted to define marriage as a union between one man and one woman. Most of these measures passed with large majorities. Gary Bauer, surveying the damage voters had done to the cause of same-sex marriage, declared it "the year of the values voter."