I think the terms "bigot" and "bigotry" are under-used on this issue
I was struck by your forthright calling of a shovel a shovel, ER.
The right is intent on writing bigory into the fundamental laws of the the US through Constitutional amendments at the Federal and state level. I understand 30 states now have bigotry amendments to their Constitutions forbidding gay marriage. Wonder how they'll stand up the 14th Amendment if the Feds ever grow a pair and actually enforce it?
On the main subject, I can't say I'm at all impressed by political expediency. Obama signalled his passivity on the subject and the right was emboldened. Now in an election year he experiences punctuated evolution and crawls on to dry land. BFD.