via my favorite wingnut watering hole free republic:
I’m not any happier than anyone about it but there’s no use crying over spilled milk. Do you know what’s nice? You hardly ever even hear about gay marriage any more. Seriously, it was like all gay marriage all the time on the news, and now nothing. Kinda nice.
by skippyjonjones
imagine that.
no civil war. no rapture. no sodomitic rain of fire. no pink gestapo purge of straight red christians. no forced marriage gulags.
just americans of all walks of life quietly going back to their daily routine -- except now gay americans can quietly and legally marry one another. that gay marriage seems no longer newsworthy was one result its proponents argued would occur, as witnessed in every country that's allowed it.
now our friend skippy isn't by any stretch of the imagination representative -- in this instance -- of the current zeitgeist in freeperville, which is frankly quite gloomy:
Still seems like a lot of celebration of faggotry everywhere I turn.
Anyway, as long as “fag marriage” is legally recognized in this country, I’ll never lift a finger for it again. It’s no longer a country I can defend, respect, or declare allegiance to.
by greene66
but skippy is nonetheless the first to admit what the rest are discovering -- that as far as marriage is concerned, the new freedoms of their gay neighbors have no visible or audible impact on their own, and pose no actual existential threat to them or the nation as a whole.
for while establishing a constitutional right to marry meant everything to the LGTB community, to the homophobe community t'was much ado about nothing, as predicted.