Gay marriages just a matter of time

Scitt Milfred of the Wisconsin State Journal appears to be on to something:

The big news Friday was that courts refused to legalize gay marriage in Georgia and New York.

So much for "activist judges."

The more significant thing about Friday's news was a simple statistic: 51 percent.

That's the percentage of respondents ages 18 to 39 who said in a national Gallup poll they support legalizing gay marriage...

... I guarantee you that support for gay marriage among the younger generations of Americans is only going to increase.

And eventually this narrow majority of support for gay marriage will become an overwhelming majority among the young. And people like me will increase support among the old folks, too.

It's a given. It's a done deal.

It's why, before too long, gays and lesbians will marry throughout the United States.

There's nothing the opponents of gay marriage can do to stop this from happening. All they can hope for -- and they certainly are hoping and fighting hard for this -- is that it will be later than sooner.

But it is absolutely going to happen.

I have no doubt at all that younger people, in Wisconsin and across the country, are more tolerant of other lifestyles. And the children of those people who are now 18-39 also will be likely to grow up supporting gay marriage, because they learned tolerance from their parents.

The times they are a changin' -- just not fast enough.

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UPDATE: I just edited this and deleted a paragraph that incorrectly said a WisPolitics poll found young people against gay marriage. I misread the release; it said young people are against the amendment, which makes sense. Thanks to Doris's comment, I have that straight now.

UPDATE 2: Paul Soglin: Amendment backfiring on the right.