Update on Rauch on Connecticut

A little footnote to Jonathan Rauch's comment that the marriage strategy is "exhausted and counterproductive": according to a report from Connecticut,

A new poll says 53 percent of Connecticut residents support last week's state Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay and lesbian marriages.

42% oppose it. When you think about what the numbers most likely would have been even five years ago, for a tired old strategy, it doesn't seem all that counterproductive to me. It certainly seems more productive than waiting around for the majority to decide that it's time we were allowed to marry.

This seems to be what Rauch favors:



Thanks to Andrew Sullivan.