Prior to the ruling, only a handful of Congressional Republicans were in favor

[Mister Mets]

That is a stain that they won't be able to remove easily.

So they were a few years behind the Democrats.

That's not particularly important.

[Mister Mets]

Have any Republicans who previously were against or ambiguously opposed to SSM come out in support since the ruling? I've only seen support from Republicans that already were pro-gay, like IRL and Charlie Baker.

That is a stain that they won't be able to remove easily.

So they were a few years behind the Democrats.

That's not particularly important.

That not how the history books will be written, and you know it.

History books aren't going to show most Democrats on the vanguard.

[Mister Mets]

That is a stain that they won't be able to remove easily.

So they were a few years behind the Democrats.

That's not particularly important.

Nor is it particularly noteworthy; republicans, you see, are nearly always a couple years behind the democrats.

Sure.

But this also isn't like slavery, where Lincoln had expressed his opposition years before he became President. Democrats haven't been leading lights here.