I'm hopeful for any decision the Supreme Court reaches. First of all, Obama has publicly declared his opposition to Prop 8, so hopefully his appointees will be sympathetic. Second, we recently had a ruling on Amendment 2, which, regardless of how one might feel about guns or the details of gun-control laws, was definitively decided that Amendment 2 was about individual rights, not military rights.

Then there was the Dover School Board issue which very explicitly ruled in favor of keeping religion out of public schools - in accordance with the separation of Church and State Constitutional laws.

So far, most, if not all, constitutional issues that make it to the Supreme Court do seem to err on the side of the Constitution and protecting individual rights. Add to that trend a sympathetic president, and I am hopeful of the outcome, should this actually make it to the Supreme Court. I am also hoping that it will. It's time this issue gets decided once and for all. Just as in the slave issue, sometimes our government needs to step in and force equality on the public and tell the "majority" that this is for their own good. It's a very fragile line to walk, giving our government power to make decisions that would seem to go against "popular" preference, but in the case of making its citizens all more-equal, I think it's necessary and right.