We had the same reaction in Canada, you would have thought the instutution of marriage was being removed. But guess what, people saw it wasn't the end of the world, its didn't effect the vast majority of people, and hetrosexual marriage wasn't effected by it all. All the fear mongering was bullshit.
And now most Canadians support gay marriage, its become normal, and even those who don't like it know its not going anywhere and have largely given up the fight to change the law.
I think the Canadian comfort with Gay marriage is actually spreading to the US thanks to proximity with US states adopting gay marriage and more Americans the ever comfortable with it.
Hopefully our day will come too, when femanists don't assume a male dominate is the great male satan, or women hating or whatever, and where a woman can be sexual submissive without feeling like she's letting women down, and still be powerful and strong in other facates of her life (not that submissives are strong and powerful in there sex lives, its just a soft kind of power as opposed to hard ( and more illusionary) power of a dominate).
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