There was a trend for awhile, and it's seemed since to die down a little, for some minority groups to oppress other minority groups by going through the court system and getting rulings in their favor.
Environmental extremists started this with suing the EPA, which would simply cave and accept whatever they wanted. Meaning that the laws Congress set in place that authorized regulations were then bent or avoided by the environmentalists - making some of these laws as implemented very destructive to farmers and rural landowners, a very, very tiny minority.
The "reverends with out flocks" who were profiting off supposed inequities used even the threat of their organized marches, boycotts, and lawsuits to get big corporations to pay them off with donations to their cause. (One of these, Sharpton, allegedly owes the IRS millions in taxes from his former organizations - a long-standing scheme to defraud - reportedly.)
The LGBT community learned they could align together in the area of extreme minority sexual orientation, and sue to get whatever they wanted. They even claimed it was a civil rights scene, much as the fight to remove the consequences of slavery in the U.S.
They won in the courts, but this only made other minorities their slaves - because they didn't get agreement on a natural evolution of society (as had finally happened in the nearly 100 years after slavery was outlawed with the 13th amendment - and culminated in Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech.)
This court ruling tended to enslave white Christians to the LGBT beliefs, and suppressed their own right to expression and religious-belief affirmation. You could no longer "discriminate" against any form of marriage (well human-animal, and polygamy are still in question - but probably not for long...) - and that "discrimination" would be anything that was not affirming the full right of that minority to do whatever they wanted to sexually and being completely authorized by the courts to do so by the legal consent of a marriage document, church or not.
You see, what happened is that you don't win the hearts and minds of people by force. And the backlash is still to happen on this. It takes time for the trained-in opinions of people to change. That is generational, meaning it took five generations of people to accept the point that the descendants of former slaves should have the same rights and privileges as everyone else. (Never mind that a black slaveholder invented lifetime slavery in Virginia, and the largest slaveholding in the South was by a black (well, technically mulatto) - who had white and Amerindian slaves as well - and yes, beat them all as he saw fit. Simon Legree personified.)
Five generations before people could agree upon a law change.
Getting the courts to force the issue in a handful of years doesn't change people's minds. Only time will do that.
It doesn't get such court-arranged marriages accepted. You'll still find most of these in the biggest cities where those ideas are more accepted. And you'll also find that most of the repercussions will be in the rural areas, where that concept of federally (not church) approved marriages hasn't gone that route. Such a couple is actually offensive in those areas - so they actually started the dance when they drove into town.
Safest advice? Flyover and ignore everything between the coasts - unless its a major population center or government-sponsored city like a college town. Live only in like-minded communities (such as San Fransisco.)
Meanwhile, everyone should move out of cities if they don't like the attitudes being supported or promoted there. Let them lie in the beds they made. Better and cheaper ways to live in suburban and rural areas, anyway. Just watch those planes fly overhead and you don't have to listen to queer conversations...
(What most people don't see coming is that it's been a long-time trend where people are leaving the coasts and moving to the South to avoid high taxes. And Texas can be a bit "intolerant" of outsider's beliefs at times. They also carry guns and have been known to shoot burglars rather than just put up with being ripped off. Not like Chicago...)
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Well, we tried to help out as much as possible. But we quit catering to minority groups of any kind over any other kind. We'd hold parties for various functionaries when we had to - and I'd make an appearance. But as soon as I could, I'd make my excuses, change out of those dress-up duds so I could go out back and blow off steam with a good round of horseshoes.
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