Gay Marriage

http://www.slate.com/id/2212893/

I read a fascinating article in Slate about gay marriage. The gist of the issue was state governments vs. the federals government. The general, stereotypical Conservative response is that the federal government should stay out of state governments' business, BUT in this case, that same argument would favor gay marriage. I know several "traditional-common-sense-values" conservatives who are utterly Small-Government until people start doin' gay shit, when they want the government to step in and stop people from exercising offensive freedoms. As the article says, if you really support state autonomy, then you have to implicitly support gay marriage rights, since two of our states allow gay marriage. Although, I suppose you could say that even if the state allows something, the federal government doesn't have to listen. Except, then the federal government would be squelching state's right.
I still think that if we leave the states alone, in twenty years zero smart, creative, progressive, forward-thinking people will live in the tundra states, and then, HUGE surprise! industries in those states will flounder by relying on antique, unsustainable business practices. The coastal states will try some new-fangled ideas that seem weird and scary for a couple years and eventually come to seem perfectly logical, inevitable and reasonable.