One of the businesses I own is in research and its interesting to see how people from all demographics express their sentiments went the issue is one in which thgey are heavily invested emotionally. Considering the frame of reference here, ie staunch conservatism and the venting ground that is all things Townhall, when you push buttons with nameless respondees you get all sort of off-center reactions that reveal inner feelings. Extrapolate those to the society at large and you have a clear picture of what's wrong with the body politic,

Since I consider Slick Willie white trash, I never cared what he did or said. Obama is an opportunist and a seasoned one at that now. Yes still, I could care less what any politician thinks besides. All I care is that homophobes and the antigay suckheads like you drown in your own sorrow when you realize this was much to do about nothing and the way American life simple moved forward. Some day you will be in such a minority, even in the Deep Ugly South, that you will long forget you wasted my time, let alone you own, on this matter. Then again, if I am wrong, you'll be the worse for wear because of your own wanton kuckleheadedness.

For 5 amusing years, I've read the tea leaves of social conservative angst rising up against the never-ceasing cultural understanding/acceptance of gay marriage equality. The increasing idiocy of the diatribes (including the inanity of the slippery slope) by the staunchest homophobes and most pathetic religious fanatics was always comforting because I knew the trend was real, and the hateful cause of the 99% who mentally masturbate their antigay venom herein meant they knew, in their hearts and minds, they had lost. But they only lost a war they wasn't worth fighting as it was inevitable. Their offspring prove that point in spades. So, too, with the Supreme Court. In the meantime, if your fear and loathing today hurts, you deserve it!

That is a stupid and irrelevant metaphor. But considering the source, what would one expect.

You are wrong in every one of your assertsions, each of your conclusions and mostly in your holier-than-though frame of reference. You are, of course, obviously wrong on the side of history being made today, most of which will soon survive your life. In the meantime, you will just spout you hateful, ignorant venom until you heart arteries harden 1% more each day and you march one step closer to your own grave. I pray you will finally find some salvation with that last breadth. You will never believe it because of you own suffering mental and emotional affliction, but gays are born that way and there is nothing you or you nasty little kind can do about it. You be better off spending more time on your March Madness bracket!

Understandably, you are entirely wrong. The primary benefit from gay marriage is knowing you are legally married with all its federal and state attendant benefits and NO discrimination whatsoever because you happen solely to marry someone of the same gender. You are also wrong is claiming that there are signficant tax advantages to filing as married vs filing as a single tax preparer. Get you facts right before you spout off about gay marriage. Nonetheless, much of what the author said above is true.

I am a lifelong Independent who votes GOP or Dem depending on how overly left or overly right leaning Congress in general appears to be, as the last thing I'd ever want it one stupid party to dominate. The worst legislation always represents the tryanny of the majority. You idiots that thing this is predominately a Liberal or Conservative country are only getting the frustration that you deserve. The chance that less than half the country, no matter the education or native intelligence, can be predominantly correct on what is best for the great USA over decades and decades in an absolute statistical impossibility. Only DEM/GOP hubris thinks that way and you and your kind are perfect examples of this.

Dude, again, I am not gay. (Though mostly white.)

Only in your mind and people like you. Most of the rest of the nation simply will not care. How much damage has the gay marriages already in existence REALLY screwed up the country? Not a G*D#mned bit.

Unlike what D. Usher wrote, or what many of you religious fanatics hope, the betting money is on the Supremes upholding the Walker ruling in California. And thankfully. Regardless, the tide is forever turned. Yes, as the lamenting Shapiro writes, you social conservatives did lose the culture war because of the hyprocrisy of your arguments and the fact that there is absolutely no truth to you claim that union will crumble once gay marriage is ubiquitous. (Nor, of course, will your rights as a holier-than-thou dude be trambled in the process.) You deserved to lose because you were always on the wrong side of the future, always prejudicially living in the past. Get used to it or let you souls burn with angst and hate. Your choice.

"Never be marriage?". Hardly logically, and only in your mind and people like you, but that will not matter legally or culturally since the very vast majority of people in time will come to accept gay marriage and you will sadly likely go to your grave not doing so. The gay people who are legally married and all who know and care for them will be happy. You will not. Great for them; bummer for you and your kind. But that is your choice so in that sense, it does matter.....but again ONLY for you.