Oh, I know it makes sense, but lots of things that make sense still seem to upset a lot of people, especially the religious. I can hardly believe that in this day and age, for example, that we're still fighting about a woman's right to choose.

I guess I'm just pleasantly surprised about marriage equality. \

As far as your last point, yeah. The GOP is pretty much toast now on the presidential level, and unless they change, soon they'll be a tiny regional party even in the congress. Their base of old, white bigots is dying off.