As the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments whether there is a Constitutional right to gay marriage, some conservative justices have expressed their ambivalence about leading the country into what they consider unknown territory and an uncertain future.
But just how unknown is that territory and uncertain that future? We need only look north of the border to envision what may lie ahead for the United States.
Gay marriage was legalized in Canada ten years ago, in 2005. You know what happened then?
Nothing.
There were no divine floods or earthquakes. No social upheaval or economic collapse. No pandemic of moral terpitude. No bands of marauding gays in the streets. No straight people forced to marry farm animals. No pious Christians spontaneously bursting into flame.
Nothing.
Well, nothing except people continuing to go about their business as they always had been. People going to work. People going to school. People going to church. People watching Hockey Night on television. People respecting other people's right to live their own lives without hurting anyone else.
Nothing at all for ten years now and counting.
Crazy Canadians.