@ 4, it is frustrating, but these are how the battle lines have been drawn. Conservatives have long been packing the courts with their acolytes and preventing fair-minded jurists from taking the bench, because they lost so much under the Warren and Berger courts. The initiative processes of all 50 states have become the special-interests' go-to option, and they have a long-established network for getting the bigots out to vote.

As much as people like to claim that rights simply exist, they actually only exist when enough people agree that they exist. All the past and present injustices regarding majority vs minority rights all existed because the majority agreed that the minority didn't deserve them, and all changed when the majority changed its mind. Women only became equals when enough men agreed that they were; racial minorities only became equals with whites when enough whites agreed that they were; and now LGBT rights are becoming reality because enough straight people agree that they should.

It's sad and disgusting to think about. But if you look at how equality and rights went from rich white men to all adults, those battles were all fought and resolved differently but became possible because the ignorance of the majority was overcome.

We can see that the ignorance of straight people is being overcome, a little bit more every day. Polls show that a majority of Americans support marriage equality, and the trend is toward more and more acceptance. When you have this going for you, victory is assured.

That doesn't mean that there won't be more battles, or that there won't be any more setbacks. But... I'm optimistic that this will prevail at Washington's ballot box. I'm sorry that it's going to come for a vote at all, but the bigots were able to choose the battleground, so it's up to everyone to be ready for it.

As soon as someone gets a No On The Marriage Revocation Initiative group going, I've got $100 to give.