Sad? "Doom and gloom"? Hardly. Silly, I am laughing at you! Watching you come absolutely unglued is amusing.
I truly care little for gay marriage one way or the other...just don't see the big deal. Were it on the ballot, I'd vote for it...but I don't really care.
But it looks like gay marriage is going to be/has been always decided by state consensus. That is hardly a set of conditions that would cause me to "come absolutely unglued". I can tell you who will come "absolutely unglued" if states' consensus is allowed to decide: those opposed to prop 8 in California and those foolish enough to believe that their Governor and state AG are more powerful than the Upholding of the US Supreme Court last Summer in Windsor.
Windsor said that each state may decide for itself via the broadest consensus possible on gay marriage. And, they affirmed that this was true retroactive to the founding of the country, all in a way "the Framers of the Constituition intended". For those not in the know, that is code for "a constitutional finding on who gets to decide gay marriage and how far back that applies".
Upon the moment that the decision is reinterated that states consensus gets to decide, Prop 8 and any other consensus vote nationwide that affirms marriage as legally only between a man and a woman becomes re-effective and binding retroactive to the 1700s. So it's square one for the LGBT crowd and legally, all those "marriages" performed against state law and in defiance of Windsor are not valid. People were warned that this was so by various statements and challenges made to the ambiguity of the Prop 8 rendering next to Windsor last year. If you thought you would illegally "marry" your way into making gay marriage legal, the "ungluing" is a matter reserved for you.
You cannot make baby seals legal to kill by killing as many of them as you can to overwhelm the justice system into giving you your way at the end of it all...or polluting a body of fresh water so much so that you get to put your sludge plant next to it because "the water is already polluted now".. Don't work that way.