Freep's Dickerson: Same-sex marriage a no-brainer for Michigan

Brian Dickerson's opinion piece in the Freep matches up perfectly with today's lead feature on same-sex marriage

It's filled with numbers -- a near 20 point swing, in fact, over nine years -- that show the changing views of Michigan residents on gay marriage.

An excerpt:

A new survey by the respected Glengariff Group, which has been polling Michiganders’ attitudes toward the issue annually since October 2004, reveals that voters in the Great Lakes State now back gay marriage by a 57 percent-38 percent margin -- an almost exact reversal of the electorate’s disposition nine years ago, when 58 percent of Michigan voters supported a state constitutional amendment outlawing the recognition of same-sex marriages.

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