If we lose here, we won’t get the other stuff back. Gotta win this first, and win on the rest of it.
We won’t get the other stuff back until we try to get them back, we certainly won’t get the other stuff back by fighting some ancillary issue.
The gay marriage issue is nothing but a distraction that has been put up specifically to get the conservatives’ attention away from the real issue. And sadly almost all of us have fallen for it.