I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Asked whether gays and lesbians should have a constitutional right to marriage, 52 percent of Americans say yes, according to a CNN poll released today.
It was the first national poll to show majority support for gay marriage, according to Freedom to Marry, a national organization that works toward marriage equality for gays and lesbians.
“Americans are realizing that gay couples crave the personal significance of marriage and need the critical safety of protections and responsibilities that marriage brings,” Evan Wolfson, executive director of Freedom to Marry, said in a statement released Wednesday.
The exact question was “Do you think gays and lesbians should have a constitutional right to get married and have their marriage recognized by law as valid?”
But that was only asked of half the respondents. The other were asked a similar question that didn’t include the word “should.”
In response, 51 percent said that gays and lesbians don’t have that constitutional right. But that’s down three percent from last year. In a similar shift, the percentage of those who said gays do have that right was up 4 percent.
