The Curmudgeon sends his warmest regards to all those in California choosing to exercise their rights to get married- gay, straight, and otherwise- today. Marriage is a tougher road than one can possibly imagine, but the risk/reward ratio is nonetheless sufficient.
The 'reward' part of the equation entails a great number of privileges, benefits, and rights which have been denied to the Gay and Lesbian communities for no reason other than they are, well, gay and lesbian. Finally, as a culture, we are slowly awakening to the fact that the previous state of affairs is inherently unfair for no adequate reason.
And the infantile Drool-and-Crayon Crowd will no doubt be soiling themselves double-time over the change. Nevermind that this has next to nothing to do with them. Nevermind that in years past their progenitors decried the idea of miscegenation. This sort of change always riles them.
Really- progress IS inevitable. It can be unbearably slow, frustratingly incremental, but progress does happen. There will be those who can and will attempt to retard, repress, and otherwise avoid any progress- up to and including those who would attempt to regress, but in the end, these attempts result in failure, often giving way to waves of rapid, radical change.
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