Put me in category 3. Back in 2004 I was a 20 year old university jock who pretty much was immersed in the 'macho-jock' world where being gay was anything but acceptable. Naturally upon hearing that gay marriage was going to be legalized I was against it.
In between then and now I realize that my opinion wasn't really based on anything more than how I was socially conditioned to react and how much I hated watching dudes kiss on the nightly news when they ran a story about gay marriage. I guess now that I'm older I cannot reconcile my mostly libertarian beliefs with a belief that someone cannot marry the person they love whether man, woman, or transgendered because of what a bunch of other people in society think.
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