court clerks refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples
raising money by staging a reading of the play 8, which supports same-sex marriage.
Bakery owners refusing to make cakes for same sex couples - for apex
Organizing marriage equality rallies or protests, launching social media campaigns, or lobbying elected officials are forms of grassroots activism that can support or oppose same-sex marriage.
49% of registered voters in Virginia believe that same-sex marriage should be legal according to a Washington Post Poll published in October 2012. 40% responded that it should be illegal and 12% had no opinion. According to a December 2011 Public Policy Polling survey, 31% supported same-sex marriage and 28% supported civil unions. 38% of respondents in Virginia opposed all legal recognition of same-sex relationships. 3% were undecided.
The most pro-union white southerners were known as Unionists or Southern Unionists. They were individuals in the Confederate states who opposed secession and supported the Union during the American Civil War. They often faced persecution and were a minority in the South during this time.
A counterculture.
counterculture
Prominent figures who opposed slavery and the slave trade include William Wilberforce in Britain and Frederick Douglass in the United States. They were key figures in the abolitionist movements in their respective countries, advocating for the end of the transatlantic slave trade and the institution of slavery.
court clerks refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples raising money by staging a reading of the play 8, which supports same-sex marriage.
court clerks refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples raising money by staging a reading of the play 8, which supports same-sex marriage.
He supported Virginia's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and is opposed to marriage equality.
Widow Yoko Ono and son Sean Lennon have said John would have happily supported it.
business men supported and families opposed.
Former Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco opposed same-sex marriage and supported a constitutional ban on it.
Same-sex marriage is generally considered an issue favored by liberals and opposed by conservatives. This is not always true, however.
According to a July 2012 poll from the Portland Press Herald, 57% of respondents supported the initiative to legalize same-sex marriage. 35% opposed it. According to an October 2011 Public Policy Polling survey, 46% supported same-sex marriage and 36% supported civil unions. 17% of respondents in Maine opposed all legal recognition of same-sex relationships. 1% were undecided.
According to a November 2011 Public Policy Polling survey, 60% of respondents in Mississippi opposed all legal recognition of same-sex relationships. 10% supported same-sex marriage and 28% supported civil unions. 2% were undecided.
According to a 2011 Rutgers-Eagleton survey, 52% of New Jersey residents supported same-sex marriage and 39% opposed it.
According to a 2011 Rutgers-Eagleton survey, 39% of New Jersey residents opposed same-sex marriage and 52% supported it.
According to a November 2011 Public Policy Polling survey, 32% supported same-sex marriage and 30% supported civil unions. 35% of respondents in Montana opposed all legal recognition of same-sex marriage. 3% were undecided.