Well since nobody's going to answer the question that WessleWoggle and myself have been asking for pages (how will gay marriages demean existing straight marriages or the sanctity of marriage or the institution as a whole?), I'm going to bed for now.
Gay marriage will be legalized nationwide and there's nothing anybody can do to stop it. The majority of old people hate the idea and the majority of young people support the idea. So as more old people die and more young people stop caring about discriminatory traditions (and fewer and fewer young people are religious in America anyway), it's only a matter of time until it gets legalized. The acceptance of the idea is accelerating as we speak. Massachussetts legalized it in 2004 and everybody thought they were crazy. Now we have 4 states only 5 years later. The Netherlands was the first country to legalize it in 2001, and now we have 7 countries only 8 years later. Things are looking good so far.
A recent CBS News poll found that 33 percent of Americans support same-sex marriage, up from 22 percent back in 2004. (source)
Younger people increasingly support it: Forty-one percent of those under 45, compared to just 18 percent of those over 65 years of age. (same source)
In only 5 years it's gone from 1 out of 5 to 1 out of 3 people supporting gay marriage. And this is one of the only issues young people care about enough to vote for. In a couple years, over half the people under 45 will support the idea. When people my age are 45, our kids are gonna laugh at the idea and it will definitely be legal nationwide then. So I give it 19 years.
And for the few here who don't believe me when I say gay marriages have occurred all over the world in different times, it's definitely not just 1 or 2 radicals here and there. Whole cultures have embraced the idea at different times, and had big state-recognized ceremonies to celebrate the formation of their unions, until bigots took over and started killing all the homosexuals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_same-sex_unions
Ooh, and Wikipedia has a timeline of all laws regarding same sex unions everywhere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_same-sex_marriage
As you can see, everything in 2009 so far has been good news for extending rights rather than taking them away. By the end of the year same-sex marriages will be legalized in Iowa, Sweden, and Vermont, and Hungary just legalized domestic partnerships. It's spreading. And speeding up.
Goodnight everybody.
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