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yesterday's news?
May. 20th, 2004 12:04 pmNow that same-sex marriages are legal in Massachusetts, the debate has shifted to how the issue will affect this fall's elections. As far as I can tell, the actual fact of gay marriage taking place is amounting to a huge non-issue for the electorate; the right wing admits that they're counting on the anticipated backlash to give them renewed momentum, and many conservative activists have expressed their dismay that they're not seeing more energy and outrage from their parishioners.
But this is the most encouraging thing I've seen on this morning, the first day that most couples will be able to exercise their licenses and actually get married: Google's U.S. news page has pushed same-sex marriage completely off the page, in favor of stories like an insurance executive suing a strip club for a $24,000 bar tab and the bald eagle being taken off the endangered list.
Of course this isn't the end of the debate, but it's a signal about how heavily this issue weighs on the public. Absent new and exciting political power plays, we're old news. We're yesterday's news. We're no news at all. And that's the best news I could have hoped for.
But this is the most encouraging thing I've seen on this morning, the first day that most couples will be able to exercise their licenses and actually get married: Google's U.S. news page has pushed same-sex marriage completely off the page, in favor of stories like an insurance executive suing a strip club for a $24,000 bar tab and the bald eagle being taken off the endangered list.
Of course this isn't the end of the debate, but it's a signal about how heavily this issue weighs on the public. Absent new and exciting political power plays, we're old news. We're yesterday's news. We're no news at all. And that's the best news I could have hoped for.
