More than any other social issue, gay rights and SSM present a real problem for social conservatives. The only group that opposes SSM is 65+.

My dad, a freaking doctor, thought that gays were inherently dangerous and that homosexuality was a pathology, a sickness. That’s what he was taught in med school back in the early 1940s. Those days are long gone and won’t come back. Toothpaste is out of the tube, and gays out of the closet.

So this is a clear loser for the SoCons over time. That won’t necessarily dissuade them though. But I think the few cool heads in the gop establishment will back off.