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<p>Salon <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/04/20/gay_marriage/index.html">hosted</a> a debate on the politics of marriage equality. <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/04/20/gay_marriage/index1.html">Here&#39;s</a> Jonathan Rauch:</p>
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<p>&#8230;it was not until 1997 that you had a majority of Americans tell Gallup that it was OK for blacks and whites to intermarry. And it is not until 2008 when Gallup had a tied result on whether homosexuality was a moral lifestyle; the public is still divided down the middle on that. So the change may be rapid, but it&#39;s only rapid compared to earlier changes that were very slow. So I don&#39;t see in my lifetime getting to a point where same-sex marriage is completely uncontroversial. I do think we stand a pretty good shot of getting to a point where it&#39;s at least consensus uncontroversial.</p>
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