The gay rights movement is going to make incredible strides forward in the next generation. Homophobes are disporportionately old and tollerant people are dispoportionately young.

This may be true, but being tolerant doesn't necessarily translate into being politically activist.

What good will it do to live in a world of mainstream tolerance if the actual laws on the books have already hamstrung our full legal expression of that very tolerance. A largely homophobic generation will indeed die out, but the laws they've enacted will remain unless the new generation commits to undoing them.

The funny thing about young people is that they are passionate about all kinds of worldly things, and then they get older.

You get older, you get more selfish, your mind changes and you begin to focus on your own immediate needs... Being that most people are heterosexual... the impetus to prioritize what a few gay people are going through when you're so busy getting married and raising your own families and paying your own taxes etc...... well that impetus will fade, tolerance or no.

We're putting a whole lot of faith in the tolerant younger generation to clean this crap up tomorrow... But the intolerant are lobbying against my loved ones today. I'm not sure I'm willing to wait and let's see. Stakes are high.