At 01:14 PM 2/19/2004 -0600 Dan Minette wrote:
>Why not civil rights, it started the same way. Indeed, the initial data
>supports that.
I certainly was aware of the "Impeach Earl Warren" Movement when I made my
post, and I certainly don't mean to imply that there is a single difference
that produced the differing outcomes of the civil rights movement and the
abortion movement.
Still, I do think that legislative legitimacy is important, and despite the
occasional Supreme Court decision on this issue, like Brown vs. Board, the
key decisions in the Civil Rights Movement were ultimately taken by
Legislatures, and thus had a bit of legitimacy too them.
In my mind, however, the track of the homosexual marriage movement is much
more closely following the track of the abortion movement than the track of
the civil rights movement.
JDG
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