Gay marriage will happen because there is no real, compelling, legitimate reason for it not to happen. The mere fact that the words "gay marriage" are being branded into the collective brain and public mind of society by this prolonged and heated controversy are enough to make the thing that those words represent become a reality at some point, probably more sooner than later.

Prohibiting the marriage of homosexuals is the same as prohibiting the marriage of heterosexuals, or of people who live in Utah, or people with blue eyes or those who like football or are less than 5 feet tall. It unfairly abridges the rights and freedoms of a particular class of people, like prohibiting women from voting or blacks from sharing public bathroom facilities with whites.

For years it was easy to marginalize and hate gays by characterizing and stereotyping them as outrageous, depraved deviants who lived a disgusting and destructive lifestyle centered around sex. Now that gays and lesbians are proving that they are like everybody else, with many of them just wanting to settle down, get married, maybe have children and live a comfortable and productive life in society, they are suddenly very scary and threatening to some people. It was easy to demonize gays when they were so "different." It's much harder to demonize somebody who's very much like you.

Anyone notice the decidedly slavic tint to the names of prop8 supporters? I wonder how many of them are even able to vote...

If Prop 8 supporters believe that marriage is a religious term and that the state has no business telling them how to define a religious term, then how do those religions get off telling churches in support of gay marriage how to define the term? It's such an obvious First Amendment violation (freedom of religion) that I'm surprised it's not being brought up more.