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Growing marriage support in Michigan, Arizona and Virginia

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Michigan, Arizona and Virginia all have constitutional amendments in place that ban same-sex marriage — and they also all have majority support for marriage equality.

Polls in these unlikely states have found that all three show a majority of citizens supporting same-sex marriage, even though voters in these states passed anti-marriage-equality amendments in 2004, 2008 and 2006, respectively. 

A recent poll of Michigan voters found that 56.8% of Michiganders support marriage equality, according to The Detroit News. That’s a sharp reversal from last year, when just over 44% of Michiganders supported marriage equality. …

Support for marriage equality is even spreading south of the Mason-Dixon line to Virginia. A recent Washington Post poll found that 56% of Virginians support the freedom to marry — a 10% increase from support in 2011. …

Even Arizona, where the legislature is currently considering a bill that would forbid transgender people from using the restroom that corresponds with their gender identity, is feeling the push toward marriage equality. Although Arizona voters overwhelmingly passed a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in 2008, 55% of voters now favor marriage equality, according to a Rocky Mountain Poll released Wednesday and published at TalkingPointsMemo. 

I’m baffled and thrilled by the momentum of this movement. Public opinion is changing quickly, and it’s ridiculously exciting.