I've maintained for a very long time, that caution and small steps and going about doing things via the proper legal channels, affecting normal public opinion, and not trying to achieve top down court decisions or legislative bypassing of the popular will, was the proper way to go about implementing gay marriage or any other legal institutions that you wish to establish, because if not a backlash will ferment. And that backlash will be stronger.

This.

The progressive left is lazy, would rather demonise than persuade and is so convinced of its own rightness that it will not countenance negotiation or compromise.