This is becoming a perfect storm V1.2

[MrModerate]

53. I disagree with your gloomy assessment . . .

But then I don't have to live in North Carolina.

That having been said, I see this as very close to the tipping point. I think you will begin to see those hate laws rolled back in some of the states that have passed them, either by the legislatures, the courts, or the people (actually a combination of all three). Remember too, that once California cleans up the leftover uncertainty arising from Proposition H8 -- which will happen the next time the people get a voice -- then the number of states denying their citizens' civil rights will be insignificant compared to the percentage of the population that lives in the real America (even if it's only 10 or 15 individual states).

And time is not on the haters' side. To a majority of young people, being gay is roughly equivalent to being left-handed: it just doesn't matter. And being persecuted for being left-handed doesn't sit well with them. The haters are dinosaurs and they are doomed.

Which doesn't help you a bit today, in North Carolina.

I'm the sort who likes to move around, so if I was facing what you are, I'd just move. Over time, the brain drain from no-opposable-thumb states will tend to disadvantage them and hasten their descent into irrelevance. At some point, we'll start taking their Senators and Congressmen away.

But they won't notice.