You all need to get over gay marriage. It is inevitable and once it is here it isn't going to go away.
Yes and no.
A key problem that WON'T "just go away"
is recognizing people's political beliefs as equal under law.
* the right to believe in gay marriage as a right
* the right NOT to believe in gay marriage equally.
Until these political beliefs are treated
EQUALLY under law
we will ALWAYS have this problem.
Worse, it will KEEP coming up in any myriad of forms and contexts:
* prochoice BELIEFS in right to choose v. prolife BELIEFS in right to life
* belief that health care is a right v. belief that paying for it is a free market CHOICE
* right to guns without govt infringemet v. right to regulate guns
etc. etc.
This problem will never go away, as long as people have diverse political beliefs.
It has ALWAYS been there, and we still need to deal with it, now more than ever.
Constitutional EQUAL protections depend on respecting and including ALL beliefs
in due process and representation BEFORE making and enforcing any policies related.
In the past, we may have gotten away with bullying and bulldozing over opposing views for political expedience, but have outgrown partisan tactics of abusing majority rule to suppress opposition. Now that all people and parties have access to media, that game fails.