Yesterday was a pretty great day across the board for progressive social issues. It was not that long ago that every ballot initiative re: SSM was lost - in deep red states and even in blue states. Hard-fought battles were almost always lost, there was an influx of money/manpower from various religious groups and affiliated entities and so on. The last couple of years also saw Republican state legislatures imposing insane restrictive abortion laws left, right and centre. Ditto for immigration laws.
All of that was repudiated strongly last night. Every time that a SSM initiative lost at the ballot I said that while it was too bad, the other side was comprised of a dying breed of people. And we had the best ally on our side - time. Time waits for no man. We who are in our teens, 20s, 30s support SSM (and other progressive social issues) by a wide margin. We went to school with gays and lesbians, we call them our friends, our business partners, our coworkers. We have watched them build strong relationships, buy houses with their partners, marry them in states where they could and we have not seen our rights erode nor our societies fall into disrepair.
If you are against SSM today, that is your prerogative, but you have lost. Rightfully so. It really is over.