Okay, that's enough fun. Let's be adults for a minute and talk politics. Yeah, we know it's hard, but everyone's gotta grow up. That's one of life's shitty loop-holes.

Anyway, we just came across this article from The American Prospect via CBS News. In it, Ben Adler explains that despite reports countering gay marriage's political effectiveness, people continue to see it as one of the most contentious issues facing America.

Using last week's election as a jumping off point, Adler goes on to prove that opponents of gay marriage are not just Evangelical whities, but come in myriad shapes, colors and - yes - political parties. In the end, he writes:

If anti-gay marriage referenda really did boost conservative turnout, then Republican candidates in states with them on the ballot would have presumably outperformed their poll numbers due to higher turnout among the measures' supporters.
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Hopefully, now that the Democrats have both won handily in states that passed anti-gay marriage initiatives and lost in the one that didn't, the myth of the initiatives' political potency can be put to rest.