The ever-escalading wave of protests has gone viral now; tomorrow at 1:30 pm EST (12:30 local) a nationwide protest, facilitated by Join the Impact is scheduled.
This is a good thing. One thing the general public is just now seeing is that our battle for marriage is not abstractly about redefining an institution and that in fact it’s the exact opposite, it’s about claiming an institution for ourselves that’s been closed off to our forebears, and the benefits (some of them not merely legal) that come with that.
Some of our opponents, bless their hearts, seem to have thought that we’d just slink away in defeat. How could they have thought that? We’ve grown stronger in marriage and seen how life-changing it is. The world sees that now. Every day our allies speak up and our opponents’ grow more silent; ours come forward and theirs shrink back; ours our won and theirs are lost.
What did they expect?
Via Andrew Sullivan.