Well, you more than anyone should know the above process is a decade long one, it's just now it can finally begin.

Does that really matter? Kennedy voted with Stevens, Breyer, Souter, and Ginsburg in Lawrence and Romer which, contrary to Kennedy's claims in those cases (which he authored), lend support to the idea of a right to marriage for gays.

As I mentioned, the appeal to the Supreme Court will come when one state refuses to acknowledge the marriage of a gay couple legally married in another state because it violates their constitution or an ammendment to their constitution.

At that point it can become a federal matter.

Similarly, the fact that gay marriage is now a foregone conclusion is met with mostly a shrug. With Vermont’s move to pass a law allowing the practice, every state will eventually have to acknowledge the legality of gay vows administered elsewhere. Keeping local restrictions will seem pointless and out of date when the laws actually do nothing to prevent the practice. In much the same way, changes to the way the government treats abortion and embryos provoked some quibbling but mostly silence.

Exhausted by decades of the culture war and afraid of further economic setbacks, the silent majority hasn’t been roused by the issue. Perhaps it isn’t even a majority anymore.

Interesting article in DC Examiner. Has the Right surrendered in the culture war?

I think one part of the recent success for gay marriage has been redefining it from a culture war issue to a civil rights issue. And of course the increasing acceptance among young people toward gays.

And gay integration into society over the last few years. 5 years ago I remember the "real world" show being "controversial" cause of the two gays on there, and now it's almost standard to include them and even mock them in a lot of movies and tv shows and stuff. There's a lot of progress over the last decade, still some to go, but lots of progress.

Yeah, I was gonna say. Gays have been prominent in TV since the 90s now.

Looks like New Hampshire and Maine are about to join the club. New England is falling like a proverbial house of dominoes.

Is that the proverb? I thought it was like a "house of cards" or perhaps "the domino effect" (hehe).

What will be the second state in Real America to fall victim to the gay plague?

Wisconsin has a pretty sizable gay population. So does Minnesota. Colorado?