A Red-State for Gay Marriage?

An Arizona poll done last week shows that 60% of voters would oppose the "Protect Marriage Arizona" initiative if it makes the November 2006 ballot and 33% said they would vote for it.

Arizona has gone Republican in every presidential election but one since 1948 (it went for Clinton in 1996). But the western red-states are more libertarian than Republican, with a "live and let live" attitude on social issues. (John McCain would never win a Republican Senate primary in Alabama or Mississippi.)

But 60% against writing bigotry into the state constitution, in a state George W. Bush carried by 10 points? That's a huge step in the right direction.