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When the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts legalized same-sex
marriage in 2003, the polls showed disapproval by a margin of 53
percent to 35 percent. After the ruling went into effect, legislators
geared up to reverse it by amending the state constitution. But two
years later, the poll numbers had flipped, and the backlash never came.
That's because reversing the court's ruling was a long process, not a
quick and hasty ballot initiative like the one that Maine passed in
Tuesday's election. In Maine, the law passed last May and never even
went into effect ... (Read the rest of this article in DoubleX).