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Homo Love and Marriage
Posted by Dominic Holden on Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:21 AM
- State Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen: Love her.
"I don't think this is an issue where you change hearts and minds by pounding on them," says Senator Ed Murray, who courted Haugen's vote for years. Polling in Washington last July found that two-thirds of voters who support marriage equality have had a one-on-one conversation about marriage equality—a personal, kind conversation—that helped form their opinion. Murray continues, "I think it is an issue where you change positions by appealing to their hearts."
And that's where the conservative right is losing—by bashing their enemies.
Read the whole Haugen-lovin' thing.
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