"Forgetting an all-male majority decided Roe v. Wade, Pelosi opined, “we should be afraid of this Court, that five guys should start determining what contraceptions are legal or not” -- rated “false” by Politifact."
"Absent an improving American standard of living, politicians need the faux “war on women” narrative to woo female voters, as they do the Latino vote-winning claim that proponents of immigration law enforcement are racist xenophobes."
Marriage was destroyed for the benefit of 1.6% of the population - of which maybe half was actually militant about it - or less than 1% of the population.
It was a complete revolution in the moral tone and the institutions of society accomplished by a small cabal of wealthy 1.6%ers, academics and judges - bypassing and trumping broad social consensus in a matter of a few years.
This is what Gramsci called cultural hegemony.