This L.A. Times headline says it all: Nothing but 'I Do' Will Do Now for Many Gays. The article reports that many gays "denied wanting marriage when it wasn't a possibility. When that changed, new feelings emerged." Here's more:
Goals that once seemed sufficient -- health benefits for domestic partners, say, or spousal rights in child-custody matters -- now seem like tepid half-measures to many gay people. -- [It's] a change that, on a national scale, may not bode well for the long-term acceptance of compromise solutions, such as civil unions.
I'd add that time and again revolutions happen not when
oppression is at its worst, but when rising expectations have been
ignited and then quashed. If the power of government is used to
forbid even willing states from recognizing gay unions, the growing
gay counter-backlash to the conservative backlash will become a
force to contend with.
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