He's a college student and I've said often this is a generational thing. This issue is lost in the culture war. The tipping point happened long ago as clear from the polling data of younger Americans. As they become voting age, the shockwaves and fallout are just reaching you and others.
You've collectively failed to pass along your traditional marriage value to succeeding generation. A lot of that came through observation as their parents, even grandparents, failed to sustain their traditional heterosexual marriages providing fertile ground for the "it's no big deal" and charges of hypocrisy.
We probably tipped on immigration too, when we rightly rejected McCain/Bush amnesty, and Republicans will become something of a permanent minority in this century. Cities, no matter how financially disastrous or crime riddles, will dominate their states and, consequently, our federal elections as well.
It says something that the Republican brand is so tarnished that even abject failure and unending misery is not enough to move voters to consider alternatives to their Democratic Party masters.
Well, if the “culture war” is lost, and the “makers vs. takers” threshhold is broken, and demographics portend a one-party banana republic state... the question then becomes whether America itself is even worth salvaging at this point. The common answer is usually yes, for the children and grandchildren. But if they are anything like this College Republican creep, I’ll be leaning “no.”