IT moves to the federal courts
 

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/08/mas...uit/index.html

Are they anticipating the make up of the Supreme Court correctly?

when you overreach, you create a backlash.

Here the gay marriage movement has been happily moving on quite speedily, and of course, that is not enough, the courts must do the work that they cannot accomplish at the ballot box/in the legislatures.

I think it's an interesting inverstion of federalist principles at least. But I don't see the question getting to the Supreme Court any time soon.

Plus, as much "progress" as the gay marriage movement has made, it's been all up and down through the courts, and legislatures, and popular votes. No one way seems to be getting the upper hand on the other. Literally. It's like that game where you pile on the hands and keep pulling one from the bottom and putting it back on top again.

5 or so states in the gay marriage column, the momentum is not back and forth. It's only in one direction.

The 30 or so states that have banned it in one form or another don't count?

Makes the church's interest in a marriage constitution amendment seem almost ... prophetic.

you clearly do not know what the word momentum means.

it's like my seminary teacher said--it's not so much where you are on the ladder, but which way you are climbing.