If the Supreme Court Legalizes Gay Marriage...

[Verily]

No. The issue will fade away - rapidly. It is not like a a bunch of fetuses that some consider the functional equivalent of babies out of the womb, are being offed every day. It is giving the name "marriage" to civil unions (even a majority of Pubbies favor civil unions these days, en route to throwing in the towel on this really), and extending certain federal benefits and duties to them. That is not. It is in actuality, largely a big nothing.

Agree. There will be impotent rage for a while (as there was after Loving v. Virginia), but it will die down within a decade. Think Alberta's reaction to same-sex marriage in Canada.

[Verily]

The second, very obviously. The age gap is enormous (unlike with abortion, where there was never a huge one), and only growing on same-sex marriage, and its support (among supporters) is sweeping, not restricted. Meanwhile, supporters of legal abortion dislike abortion itself and are often willing to or even desire to restrict its usage. Just as importantly, there isn't much that could be done--abortion has all sorts of small ways in which it can be limited, but same-sex marriage doesn't.

Abortion is sort of unusual as a social issue as very few people view it as a positive practice, and there are secular grounds on which one can be uncomfortable with it. The death penalty might be analogous.


I mean, there will be resistance for a little while, but there was after Loving, too. (Majority did not support interracial marriage being legal until the 1990s!) It will go away fairly quickly. Given that any repeal through a Constitutional amendment would be impossible, the lack of anti-gay options would cause the movement to fizzle out pretty quickly. Canada is somewhat instructive in this regard; the Albertans gave up trying to repeal gay marriage after a few years even though I would guess it does not have majority support in the province even now.