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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Ain't that the truth. Back in 2005, when the Liberal government of the time was attempting to legalize gay marriage and we had lengthy threads about the issue, I was one of only a small number of posters on CP to support the motion. It felt like maybe 10% of us were in favour of legalizing gay marriage, 50% supported separate but equal "civil unions", and 40% were outright opposed to any recognition of homosexualcouples. Now it seems like virtually everyone here is on the pro-marriage side, and support for civil unions has disappeared completely (rightfully so). Only a small number of posters (the religious extremist contingent) are still in favour of denying equality to LGBT couples altogether. The shift in this forum's collective attitude on the issue in recent years has been most welcome to see.  |
I think things have change but a lot more than 10% were supportive of gay marriage back then. I would say most of the site was