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WASHINGTON — Almost 30 years ago, I flew around New York State with its new governor, Mario Cuomo. He told me that at a gay and lesbian advocacy dinner that week he and Bella Abzug, a firebrand left-wing former congresswoman, had been the only straight people in attendance.
I offhandedly remarked that the issue made me a little uncomfortable. Mr. Cuomo pounced. Every time you think about that, he said, assume that your young son is gay and ask yourself how you would want him to be treated.
That conversation flashed back vividly last month when Mr. Cuomo’s son, Andrew, now himself the governor of New York, signed legislation making gay marriage legal in the state. America has come a long way on this issue, and many people now believe the government has no business prohibiting them or their sons or daughters or friends or colleagues or anyone else from getting married because of their sexual orientation.
Only seven years ago, in the aftermath of the legalization of same-sex marriages in Massachusetts, President George W. Bush’s strategist, Karl Rove, used the issue to scare voters in Ohio and elsewhere; it worked.
At about that time, the most respected Republican pollster, Robert M. Teeter, noted that while the United States was becoming much more tolerant generally, it would probably remain divided on gay marriage for a long time. The late Mr. Teeter, like many of us, would be surprised at how rapidly attitudes are changing. Today, many surveys show majority support for gay marriage; less than a decade ago it was almost 2-to-l against.
Then, the public was divided on civil unions for gays and lesbians; there are strong majorities in favor now.
The politics around the issue have evolved, too. When a Massachusetts court legalized gay marriage there, many politicians expressed outrage. By contrast, there mainly was support or silence after the action by the New York State Legislature.
Most American politicians still express opposition to gay marriage. Among them is President Barack Obama, who says his views are evolving.
Among leading Republicans, with their social-conservative base, opposition is almost mandatory. Yet the party’s top presidential candidates — the former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, the former Utah governor Jon Huntsman and the former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty — dodged the issue, and issued no statements. Nor was there any mention on their campaign Web sites.
It was the same with the party’s congressional leaders, like the House speaker, John Boehner of Ohio, and the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
Perhaps they watched the contortions of some who did comment. The former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani said he still believes marriage is defined as “between a man and a woman.” He went on to praise the state Legislature for lifting the “burden of discrimination against gays and lesbians” and credited the “leadership” of the younger Mr. Cuomo.
Even the blunt-talking Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann, a favorite presidential candidate of many in the religious right, equivocated. It is appropriate that this is a matter of state law, she said. Then she added that she would support a national initiative to overturn the decisions of the states.
Count on Senator Rick Santorum, who argues that there is no right to privacy in sexual matters, to go against the grain. On one of his presidential campaign treks to Iowa, the former Pennsylvania senator said actions like New York’s are part of a leftist plot to “cheapen“ heterosexual marriage and “devastate kids.”
The change in U.S. attitudes reflects the public’s growing rejection of critics’ claims that gay marriages threaten traditional marriage, are destabilizing to society, and are antithetical to the central purpose of marriage, to have children.
In those few states where same-sex marriages have been allowed, none of these dire consequences came to pass. An aide to the Massachusetts Republican senator, Scott Brown, said the lawmaker still supports the Defense of Marriage Act, which bans U.S. government recognition of gay marriage. At the same time, he suggested the debate over the issue was so yesterday: “It’s time to move on,” the aide said. “Senator Brown’s focus is on jobs.”
Still, there remain difficult issues.
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