Reply #107: I've often considered a poll asking if people would demand

[JoeyT]

minorities or women support a politician that didn't think that they had the right to own property.*
I never bothered because I know it'd create such a huge flame war that it might get locked in fairly short order.

*Yes, GLBT civil rights and civil rights for minorities and women are very much the same thing unless you're dumb enough to think being gay is a choice. Marriage is comparable to owning property, since society grants so many benefits to married people that no other class gets. Separate but equal always manages to be really separate, but never anything close to equal.