Some good men will retreat, sure. But the laws of nature are just, and social constructs will not be won by edict.
It depends on the meaning of "retreat{" (ie., I do not equate "retreat" with "surrender"), as well as precisely what it is that good men are retreating "from". If your house is on fire, you stay and fight the fire, and try to save the house with everything you have. But if the flaming rafters are falling down upon your head, you get out of there. The house is gone; that story is over.
But the laws of nature are just, and social constructs will not be won by edict.
The laws of nature are mercilessly just, but social constructs are always in flux and the weaker the "society", the more in flux and subject to propaganda and manipulation that society is.
Increasing acceptance of homosexual "marriage" is a good, contemporary example. Through a hi-tech version of the Alinsky "Diamond Tactic", with the Democrat "mainstream" newsrooms providing multiple facets of the diamond, Americans look in every direction and wonder if they are being left behind by (what looks like) the rest of America. That is, they wonder if they are indeed "on the wrong side of history".
There's a reason kids today still use phrases like, "That's so gay," as a deragatory comment. Kids understand naturally - - instinctively - - that there is just something sick about a man pushing his penis into another man's anus full of sh**. It's one of those things nobody needs to teach, and it is why homosexuals instinctively feel ashamed of what they are and what they do, and why they suffer the tears of a clown even as they march with fake smiles in fake "pride" parades.
It's like the communist Democrats thinking they can create what Austrian economists called "the socialist man". It cannot be done because it is simply antithetical to human nature. It's the same with homosexuality - - it will always give normal people the creeps, just as it has for thousands of years, and there's nothing the liberals can do about it.
Yet here we are. Rationality and gut instinct are once again on a collision course with liberalism.
Like matter meeting antimatter - - sooner or later there will be an explosion. There has to be.