Its Over

In one of the posts below, I suggested that the guns of America's culture wars are starting to dim. Today another sign that they are almost out of ammo. Steve Schmidt, architect of John McCain's presidential run and all around GOP Guy is urging his fellow conservatives to support gay marriage. When someone from the mainstream right takes that position its a sure sign that a movement has hit the shallow ponds of the American center and its opponents are becoming marginalized. In short, here we have a tipping point. Here is Schmidt on the issue:

It cannot be argued that marriage between people of the same sex is un American or threatens the rights of others ... On the contrary, it seems to me that denying two consenting adults of the same sex the right to form a lawful union that is protected and respected by the state denies them two of the most basic natural rights affirmed in the preamble of our Declaration of Independence — liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.