Wisconsin passed it’s amendment by 59% in 2006. Wiki has Wisconsin actually having a repeal referendum scheduled for 2014, doubt that happens now.
I’ll never forget what the big media story was when judges struck down the first ones in this wave after the SC’s DOMA decision—it was about a cable reality show star saying he thought gay acts were gross right before Christmas. The station suspended him, the show’s merch sold out for Christmas as folks bought it in solidarity and they reinstated him in time for the premier episode which got record ratings. That was the big story.
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It could have passed with 99%, it wouldn’t matter.
1. The federal Constitution trumps State Constitutions and statutes.
2. Federal equal protection jurisprudence clearly is inconsistent with state laws or state constitutional provisions prohibiting same sex marriage. You don’t have to like that, but you do have to recognize it.
3. This leaves only one path to prohibition of same sex marriages - a federal constitutional amendment which prohibits such marriages.
4. No one seems interested in pursuing such an amendment, thus...
5. It is only a matter of time before there is same sex marriage in all 50 states.