Here's what the gay newspaper of record thinks: "That remains to be seen and will likely result in a steady stream of court battles."
Even NPR, that bastion of evangelical hysteria, frankly admitted this week: "Two titanic legal principles are crashing on the steps of the church, synagogue and mosque: equal treatment for same-sex couples on the one hand, and the freedom to exercise religious beliefs on the other.
"The collision that will play out over the next few years will be filled with pathos on both sides," NPR says. But the story also acknowledges that so far, the religious groups are losing.
I do not mean to underestimate the powerful forces pushing for gay marriage. But excuse me, I'm 48 years old. I've grown up with successive waves of progressive myths, all preaching "resistance is futile." I was told as a teenager that nobody would be pro-life once all the old folks died off, and that no mothers would be home with children. I was told communism -- or at least socialism -- was inevitable, too. Have you looked at the Soviet Union lately?
War is not about killing your enemies; it's about crushing your enemies' will to fight. Guess what? Culture war is too.
Nothing is inevitable but death and taxes. If we lose marriage at the polls this November, it will be because gay folks cared more, fought harder, gave more -- and I don't believe that's going to happen.
Prediction: Californians are going to surprise the elites and the progressive mythmakers by joining the 27 other states (from Oregon to Wisconsin) that have voted to protect marriage as between husband and wife.
We're here, we believe in marriage, get used to it.