I have no doubt that over time the electorate would arrive at recognizing marriage for gays. The problem for me with activist judges is usually not so much the decisions but more importantly the preventing of the “free market” of ideas from operating in reaching a better solution down the road. Instead we get wrenched into the future without the nuance of gradualism(voting) that makes for better and more widely accepted law and are forced to live with blunt results that the majority abhor.

The debilitating effects of Government intervention in ideas is no different than its ham fisted forays into the economy.