Glenn Greenwald’s column in The
Guardian the other day, “The
gay marriage snowball and political change,” makes an important point about
how the growing momentum of the movement for same-sex marriage rights
demonstrates that change, even radical and rapid change, is possible. No matter what the outcome of the present Supreme
Court deliberations, we have already witnessed an extraordinary, and
extraordinarily rapid, change in social ideology, as well as legal and
institutional practices. As Greenwald says: “It's conventional wisdom that
national gay marriage is
inevitable; the tipping point has clearly been reached. …It really is a
bit shocking how quickly gay marriage transformed from being a fringe,
politically toxic position just a few years ago to a virtual piety that must be
affirmed in decent company.”
