Reply #20: Agreed

[John Barrett]

My belief is that GOP hacks used this to their benefit to get their right wing base stirred up and donating money. I'm a social lib and support it....although my own view is that the gay community would have been wise to go for a gay union and keep the "marriage" term out of it.

The backlash that I believed would occur did in fact happen. You're better off with two steps forward, than three steps forward and then two steps back. Society and culture takes some time to change and we've come a fairly long way on this in a generation. It might take another generation. You push a little on these cultural things and then let it settle. Just my opinion but I believe that there is much more pressing stuff in the USA that needs attention than gay marriage. Some might disagree.