Andrew Sullivan, bless his little gay Republican heart, points out that not that long ago, in 1967, there was a battle over miscegenation. That year, the Supreme Court struck down state bans on interracial marriage on equal protection grounds. In a Gallup poll the following year, 72 percent opposed such marriages – quite a bit more than the percentages that oppose gay marriage today.
Common sense point No. 526 on “gay marriage”: Just because the public supports it doesn’t make it right.
Many things people support are not right. Many things people oppose are right. Right and wrong need to be based on something other than public opinion or how we feel on any given day.