ARE QUEER PEOPLE MAKING MARRIAGE BETTER?
As marriage equality fights played out from California’s Proposition 8 ballot initiative to the eventual U.S. Supreme Court battles, advocates made the argument that “we are just like you” and susequently began to change hearts and minds faster than ever before.
In response, the right went on an offensive to stop what some dramatically argued could be the beginning of the end of the world. High-profile politicians like former Pennsylvania senator and Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum misconstrued data to argue that same-sex marriage would ruin society. And while such attempts consistently fell flat when countered with actual research showing, for example, that same-sex parents were actually a positive impact
