Loving v. Virginia also legalizes gay marriage

Says who? While I could see an alternate Loving leading to SCOTUS ruling in favor of gay marriage earlier, having the court legalize gay marriage in Loving itself does not seem at all plausible to me.

I'm not sure how much it would change the progress of gay rights movement. It would delay the legalization of gay marriage, but not necessarily by all that much--assuming public acceptance progresses as OTL, by 2017 there would be 44 states with a majority in favor of gay marriage, which is probably enough to get repeal put through by TTL's 2020s, if not earlier.
I know what you mean, the efforts towards things like employment protection probably wouldn't be affected, but enshrining heterosexuality into the constitution is going to have an effect on the culture. As for those opinion polls, I tend to thing an element of that is a sense of inevitability when it comes to the issue. If the constitution is standing in the way of gay marriage, I don't think you'd get a majority of people being in favor of repealing that amendment. That's just my opinion though.
 
I know what you mean, the efforts towards things like employment protection probably wouldn't be affected, but enshrining heterosexuality into the constitution is going to have an effect on the culture. As for those opinion polls, I tend to thing an element of that is a sense of inevitability when it comes to the issue. If the constitution is standing in the way of gay marriage, I don't think you'd get a majority of people being in favor of repealing that amendment. That's just my opinion though.
I just don't see why such an amendment would discredit gay marriage, especially if everything else is progressing apace. If "marriage is between a man and a woman" had been in the Constitution from the days of the founding fathers, that would be one thing, but an amendment ratified in the 60s or 70s is not going to be held as sacred and inviolable any more than the 18th was.
 
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