Reply #30: What if...

[Hobarticus]

What would happen if everyone who opposed amending their state's constitution to forbid gay marriage simply left their state when it happens?

Typically, aren't progressives, or even moderates or conservative with a brain, typically better educated, make more money, and more civically responsible?

Why not just leave these backwater screwheads with their mandated morality? Then their states can dry up from the 'brain drain'.

Maybe after a few states start to see the migration of their best and brightest out of their economies, and watch their opportunities start to dry up over several decades, they'll have second thoughts.

I'm not talking about forming a 'liberal Nirvana' state, I'm merely talking about moving out of states where there exists efforts to write discrimination into state constitutions. You don't even have to be liberal or progressive or whatever, just opposed to such draconian and anti-American measures.

I know it's a pie-in-the-sky scenario, and it sounds far too easy, but one can dream.