Tennessee will have the ban on the ballot this year.
Banning gay marriage is fine. The problem are the resolutions that ban civil unions or any other form of recognized partnerships as well.
No its not fine, people's lives are destroyed. Its so easy for others to just casually say "gay marriage should be banned", they don't have to worry about it, they can marry anyone they like.
And civil unions are a joke. Connecticut legalized them this year and less than 300 have been done, in a state with 3.5 million people. They are "separate but equal" (equal to the rights of marriage but separate in name) and not worth the effort. Those thousands of marriages in California and Oregon last year took place b/c people thought they were getting a meaningful contract, not a poll-tested compromise.
Christmas Cookies- A poll last spring (sorry I don't have source) of Connecticut residents/voters said that they were split 50/50 on legalizing same-sex marriage, but a big majority (somewhere around 65-75%) were for civil unions. Thats why the State Assembly took the latter route. The sad thing is 50% in favor of full marriage rights would be one of the highest rates in the country.
