America isn’t going to unify until abortion and gay marriage are outlawed again.
The tide of lies around these things is going to have to turn back before we will see political action.
There are a number of possible answers to the marriage issue. Reductio ad absurdam has been reached here. Why can’t a civil marriage embrace polygamy. Why, in fact, can’t it generalize out to the notion of legal household. While the notion of marriage is separated from the state and left for private entities to define in whatever manner they choose.