During the Republican heydey of the last decade, there was an explosion of anti-gay sentiment across the nation, as state after state added anti-gay-marriage amendments to their state constitutions. In 2004,
11 states passed amendments prohibiting gay marriage, and sometimes civil unions as well. It was deliberate, hateful, and - as we are seeing more and more - unconstitutional. It also would seem to go against conservative small-government principals, but hypocrisy has never been seen as a fault in those people.
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