When will gay marriage become universally accepted?

[RR1997]

Gay marriage has finally been legalized (hooray!), but when will gay marriage universally accepted?

When will the percentage of people who support gay marriage in the US hover up to the point where it's somewhere between 80-100%?

When will opposing gay marriage be equivalent to supporting racial segregation and opposing interracial marriages?

My opinion:

I think that gay marriage will be an issue in 2016, and the Republicans will call the ruling unconstitutional. Instead of opposing it on moral grounds, I think that the GOP will oppose it in the defense of states' rights.

By the time that the 2020 election comes around, I think that gay marriage will be a non-issue and a large majority will support it, but a significant minority will still oppose it.

 I think that it will stay that way until the 2030's. By the time the 2030's come along, I think that nearly everyone will support it, and opposing it will be equivalent to opposing interracial marriages.

 By the time the 2040's and 50's come along, I think that opposing gay marriage will become equivalent to supporting slavery and racial segregation.

 I could be wrong tho. Hopefully we as Americans progress faster than I expect us to.

Voted 2033-2038

What do you guys think?

[RR1997]

Here's an interesting chart that is relevant to the topic (outdated obviously):

[RR1997]

Not anytime during our lifetimes, if ever.


Humans still can't get over issues like race and gender. There will always be people who want to fight these fights. For the same reason that subconcious racism and misogyny is still a huge problem, so will blatant and subconcious homphobia.

Though I think the overwhelming majority of people do aspire to MLK Jr.'s dream of everyone being "judged by the content of their character", and not arbitrary traits, humans are inherently hardwired to differentiate, and I don't think we'll ever really get over issues like these. Pessimistic, I know

I think you midunderstood my question.

Of course racism still exists, but if a political candidate supported bringing back segregation and banning interracial marriages, he would never get elected into any political office, and would be written off as a dangerous extremist.

Homophobia will always exist as well, but when will opposing gay marriage be equivalent to opposing interracial marriages and wanting to bring back segregation? When will opposing gay marriage be written off as a dangerous, extremist position to the point where a candidate would never win if he opposed SSM?