Not much point in getting deeply invested in opposition to gay marriage".
Demographics are destiny on this one - this year as predicted we crossed the line between minority and majority support for such unions on a national basis, and you can predict within a reasonable margin of error when such legislation will be passing in various state.
The most recent estimate I've seen posits that Mississippi will be last holdout, legalizing such unions sometime between 2032 and 2035.
Likely well before that most if not all states will have some form of some form of civil union or full marital status because not having such is going to become an increasing competitive disadvantage in attracting businesses.
For example my wife works for an F-100 multinational where the majority of gays and lesbians are "out" and there is a strong anti-discrimination policy on the basis of sexual orientation, and there is just no chance that this company is going to be establishing major new facilities in states that don't recognize some form of marital rights for such employees - many of whom are highly placed in the company.
Also, we are rapidly going to get into problems aligning benefits, rights and responsibilities between various states, it's going to be a real mess for example when one state refuses hospital visitation rights to a "spouse" entitled to them in their state of residence - it's bad publicity, bad press, and it's rapidly going to be seen as a bad idea.
Of course, you can talk secession - the problem is that within 10 or 15 years rural areas rural would have to start seceding from urban areas *within* most (likely, all) Red States... as by that time there will be majority voter support for some form of marital status and most of them.
And in the meantime - to the extent that this is a touchstone of conservative policy - it means that you are alienating large numbers of younger voters who might otherwise be a natural conservative constituency.
Nope, time to let this one go.
It looks like someone has been drinking the koolaid by the gallon.
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Even in CA 65% of parents recently said they did not want "gay is good" instruction in public schools. Surrendering to same sex "marriage" is a death knell for human civilization. Demographics are not destiny. More and more young people are becoming pro-life - abortion is becoming less and less accepted as normal, homosexuality is the next one to fall. Anyone pushing same sex "marriage" has moral blinders on. And historical blinders, as well. Homosexuality is a mental illness, huge character flaw, and same sex acts are unnatural, unhealthy and immoral. Homosexuals have much higher rates of child molestation, alcoholism, drug use, violent crime, "partner" abuse and all manner of STD illnesses. Pretending it is just a normal variant of human behavior is nothing but wilfull propaganda.
No, gay marriage is the line in the sand for me. The moment it is forced onto the entirity of the country is the moment the country becomes unsalvageable, and no longer worth preserving. I’d happily see the country break apart and burn in flames first.