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> Obviously we can find examples of members of the GOP that are against gay marriage

The party platform is the official stance of the Republican party and it is against same sex marriage. It won't change until 2024. Republicans who support it are extreme outliers, not the other way around.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rnc-moves-2016-platform-inta...

> I’m pretty sure mainstream republicans are pretty onboard with accepting homosexuality

Less than half of Republicans support same sex marriage.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/311672/support-sex-marriage-mat...

If I was in a same sex marriage I would feel very, very uncomfortable working at a company that "bans politics" when a large number of my peers thinks my spouse is "unnatural".

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>If I was in a same sex marriage I would feel very, very uncomfortable working at a company that "bans politics" when a large number of my peers thinks my spouse is "unnatural".

What's especially important to remember though, is if a company were to limit political discussions, by your same statements/logic, that would also include opinions shared _against_ same sex marriage though, no?

Wouldn't that create a safer environment where 1) people are mostly insulated from people sharing their views against it, and 2) if someone were to share something about their same sex spouse, any publicly expressed opposition against it at the workplace would be considered breaking that workplace norm.

In the most theoretical sense, perhaps it could. But that’s not how it tends to play out in reality, and it hasn’t played out that way in the past.

I think a lot of people want to treat this as an experiment - “couldn’t it work?” - but a lot of people with lived experience are saying “this policy doesn’t work, because this used to be how workplace policies were, and they had really bad side-effects.”

I just think most of us are unwilling to run the experiment again just because it should work. In practice, it does not.

28% in 2014 to 49% today. Sorry I missed the majority by 2%. This is a huge change in a short period of time. Sure it’s slower than liberal acceptance, but it’s happening.

This is exactly why I don’t want these conversations in my company’s chat channels. I am not advocating against gay marriage, but I get downvoted because I say something to the effect of “hey maybe you might have an outdated view of many of your conservative voting peers”. This despite the fact that my personal views are probably more in line with yours than you’d expect. I’m just not willing to toss half the country under a bus before I even have a conversation with them.

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