When there is nothing left to fall back to

Another view on the question of whether the gay marriage war has been won. This time I'm going to stick to reporting.

One reason why many in New Jersey are pushing for marriage equality is because they find the state's civil unions to be inadequate. Some GOP state senators are now calling for improvements to the civil union law. Of course they are saying this so they don't have to approve gay marriage.

But think of the progress this implies. Just 10 years ago civil unions in Vermont were seen as amazingly radical and outrageous. Now they're the fallback position. As more people realize that civil unions are discriminatory and even Super Duper Civil Unions (as now exist in Washington state and are now proposed for NJ) leave gays as second-class citizens the fallback position will be seen as inadequate. Then we'll have gay marriage.