The ultimate fate of all of these State Constitutional amendments is pretty obvious. Within the next ten years, the Supreme Court will rule that the right to marry is Constitutionally protected at the Federal level which will invalidate the various State amendments.
There will then be a flurry of laws passed to protect the 'religious liberty' of churches who do not wish to marry gays, and the end result will be that any difference between a "civil union" and a "marriage" will be eliminated and sexuality will no longer be a reason a person can be discriminated against.
And it will be about damn time.
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