This is the key. They're only concerned about the issue hurting the obamessiah in the Fall. If this weren't a Presidential election year, they'd be all a-twitter about the victory for gay marriage.
One flaw in this article is the assumption that culture wars start as a result of activist court rulings. In fact, the rulings themselves are major assaults in the culture war. Rulings such as Roe and the California same-sex "marriage" decision aren't objective legal decisions. They're circumstances where leftist judges deliberately misinterpreted the Constitution to advance a culturally leftist cause they believe in. The rulings themselves are major bombs dropped in the culture war by participants in that war. They aren't innocent occurrences which caused others to launch such a war.
The reason this is important is that Orwellian liberal groupthink dictates that conservatives are to blame for the culture wars. Therefore, we're always told that conservatives started the culture wars. Thus, when a school system starts handing out condoms, that isn't seen as the start of a culture war. Instead, the conservative parents who object are the ones accused of "starting a culture war in response to the new school policy."
The California ruling isn't causing opponents of same-sex "marriage" to start a culture war. The ruling itself is a major assault in a culture war started by same-sex "marriage" proponents.
When has any Leftist political pressure group ever trusted the democratic process? Their whole attitude is that the public is too dumb to know what is in their best interest, so a judge needs to impose it on them.
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