State's wrongs.
Well, you know a significant portion of those who settled this country were religious groups who were pushed out or persecuted in the old country. We have the overabundance of this influence in our culture partly because you don't. This gay marriage thing will take another generation or two, but it'll happen here also. It's just harder in a less than homogenous culture like we have here in the good ol' U.S.A.