Maggie Gallagher is head of the National Organization for Marriage an organization that invested heavily in defeating gay marriage in Maine (and elsewhere). She disagrees (of course), listing her reasons. Some of them are here (the rest seem to be duplicates) along with rebuttals from myself and others. No, I'm not linking to her directly.
* The future is never inevitable. The poll data aren't an argument for gay marriage, only a statistical observation.
* Young people are not as unanimous as claimed. As young people mature they tend to learn about fairness. If a large number already agree that gays must be treated fairly then the number who agree to gay marriage will only grow.
* The argument from despair is bait and switch -- they're losing the argument that gay marriage is a good idea. So, who in the Maine campaign was documented as lying whenever they opened their mouths? If gay marriage is a bad idea why is every supporting argument filled with lies?
* Progressives are often wrong about the future -- we were told abortion would be a dead issue by today. But progressive ideas, such as abolition, civil rights, women's voting rights, food safety, contraceptive rights, and Medicare, are now accepted as a given in spite of conservative opposition when they were enacted.
* Demography could be destiny -- traditionalists have more children. But not all of them embrace their parent's religion -- especially the gay ones. And the ones who do take after their parents have gay friends.
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