George Will On Gay Marriage, Republicans used marriage equality as a wedge issue to scare people in 2004 and 2006. Since then, the issue has been less successful in electing Republican politicians.
On Sunday's edition of ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulis, George Will, a conservative columnist with the Washington Post, told the panel, "Quite literally, the opposition to gay marriage is dying… it’s old people."
Will's comments come only days after the Supreme Court agreed to look at the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, and California's Proposition 8 challenge.
When asked about the upcoming Supreme Court cases involving marriage equality, Will said,
It could make them say, 'It's not necessary for us to go here'. They don't want to do what they did with abortion. The country was having a constructive accommodation on abortion, liberalizing abortion laws. The court yanked the subject out of democratic discourse and embittered the argument.
Maryland, Maine, and Washington all legalized marriage equality in Nov. Minnesota voters shot down a constitutional ban on marriage equality on their ballot. Currently, nine state and the District of Columbia allow marriage equality.
Attitudes are changing across the country. The Mormon Church released a new same-sex attraction website last week. A Gallup poll released Dec. 5 shows 53 percent of Americans supporting marriage equality.
In response to the same question, panelist and Conservative strategist Mary Matalin added,
Well, because Americans have common sense. There are important constitutional, biological, theological, ontological questions relatives to homosexual marriage. People who live in the real world say, the greater threat to the civil order are the heterosexuals who don't get married and are making babies. That's an epidemic in crisis proportions. That is irrefutably more problematic for our culture than homosexuals getting married.
Both Will and Matalin previously denounced marriage equality in the past.
On Sunday's edition of ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulis, George Will, a conservative columnist with the Washington Post, told the panel, "Quite literally, the opposition to gay marriage is dying… it’s old people."
Will's comments come only days after the Supreme Court agreed to look at the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, and California's Proposition 8 challenge.
When asked about the upcoming Supreme Court cases involving marriage equality, Will said,
It could make them say, 'It's not necessary for us to go here'. They don't want to do what they did with abortion. The country was having a constructive accommodation on abortion, liberalizing abortion laws. The court yanked the subject out of democratic discourse and embittered the argument.
Maryland, Maine, and Washington all legalized marriage equality in Nov. Minnesota voters shot down a constitutional ban on marriage equality on their ballot. Currently, nine state and the District of Columbia allow marriage equality.
Attitudes are changing across the country. The Mormon Church released a new same-sex attraction website last week. A Gallup poll released Dec. 5 shows 53 percent of Americans supporting marriage equality.
In response to the same question, panelist and Conservative strategist Mary Matalin added,
Well, because Americans have common sense. There are important constitutional, biological, theological, ontological questions relatives to homosexual marriage. People who live in the real world say, the greater threat to the civil order are the heterosexuals who don't get married and are making babies. That's an epidemic in crisis proportions. That is irrefutably more problematic for our culture than homosexuals getting married.
Both Will and Matalin previously denounced marriage equality in the past.
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