Gay marriage is such an interesting one to me because by voting that through we effectively removed regulation rather than added it.

I was such a big advocate for the push to legalize gay marriage because the government has absolutely no business telling people who they can and can't marry, and the legal distinction caused ridiculous ripple effects in everything from healthcare to taxes for anyone that wasn't allowed to marry their partner.

At this point I guess the political debate would be that the government can, in fact, tell us who we're allowed to marry?

When politicians start messing around in people's private lives and try to outlaw such a basic human need for love and companionship, then it's clear that the politicians are not working on behalf of people, but are instead following a different, authoritarian agenda.

Same sex marriage has been around for a lot longer than ten years.

The first legal same sex marriage in the U.S. was 1971

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_same-sex_marriage

> At least two of the Roman Emperors were in same-sex unions; and in fact, thirteen out of the first fourteen Roman Emperors held to be bisexual or exclusively homosexual. The first Roman emperor to have married a man was Nero, who is reported to have married two other men on different occasions. First with one of his freedmen, Pythagoras, to whom Nero took the role of the bride, and later as a groom Nero married a young boy, who resembled one of his concubines, named Sporus.