Medrasne poroke – istospolne poroke

Družba še ni pripravljena, je “argument”, ki se pogosto omenja v aktualni debati o istospolnih porokah in posvojitvah. Žalostno dejstvo je, da je “družba” le redko pripravljena in da mora za miselni preskok slej ko prej dobiti “pospešek” politike ali sodstva, ki vendarle zbereta toliko poguma, da presežeta globoko zakopane predsodke. Dober primer so rasno mešane poroke, ki so v ZDA dobile državni žegen šele leta 1967.

In 1968, the year after the “activist” Supremes legalized interracial marriage in its decision on Loving vs. Virginia, a Gallup poll found that the vast majority of Americans still opposed the idea that blacks and whites could marry — 72 percent to 20 percent. Just 10 years earlier, in the wake of a California Supreme Court decision that overturned newly minted anti-interracial marriage laws in the state, Gallup found that 94 percent of Americans opposed mixed-race marriages.

As meager as support for gay marriage is now — 49 percent in WashPost, 44 percent in CNN, 42 percent in the Times/CBS and 38 percent in Qunnipiac — it is still about double the 20-percent approval for interracial marriage in the country a few months after mixed marriages became legal. (The average of support in the four new polls is 43.25 percent.)

In fact, it wasn’t until 1991, almost a quarter century after Loving, that opinion flipped on interracial marriage, 48 percent to 42 percent. Pensito Review

Prav tako dober primer je rasna segregacija. Ni dvoma, da črnskih otrok v marsikateri do tedaj izključno belski šoli niso pričakale rožice in odprte roke, a nekoč je je bilo pač potrebno stvar presekati in napraviti pravo stvar. Isto velja pri posvojitvah istospolnih parov – čakanje na “čudež”, na to, da bo družba hokus-pokus “pripravljena”, je upanje brez konca.