August 9, 2005: Good news for our families: More and more Americans recognize the need and basic fairness of legal protections for LGBT families.

This is from Gay.com: The marriage equality movement may be gaining momentum in the United States, as new poll results show an increasing number of Americans support marriage rights for gay couples — the highest support since July 2003. According to the new Pew Research Center for People & the Press/Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life poll, 35 percent of Americans polled were in favor of allowing gay couples to get legally married. Fifty-three percent still opposed marriage for gay couples, but that same number of people polled, 53 percent, said they wanted gay couples to have some kind of legal arrangement, such as civil unions…The poll was part of a broader study of national issues that may face the incoming U.S. Supreme Court nominee.

It’s going to take awhile before most Americans can really wrap their heads around gay marriage, but we are making progess. As Tony Kushner wrote in Angels in America “The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come.” Amen, brother, amen.

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