You know, I'm not so sure of that. Because, yes, I do think voters would probably have passed similar laws against interracial marriage if they'd had the opportunity. But look at MA -- back when their courts ordered that same-sex marriage be allowed, everyone was sure that a constitutional amendment was forthcoming, but it didn't happen and now that possibility is all but dead. I think people have a much easier time banning something that seems theoretical to them than they would dissolving actual people's actual marriages.

And polls show that people are a lot less opposed to same-sex marriage than they used to be, particularly in California. I don't know if the Knight Initiative would pass today as easily as it did in 2000, if at all. So I'm reasonably hopeful.