> No hearts and no minds are changed as a result of the supreme court rulings, just the code powering the justice system.
A lot of the "hearts and minds" you talk about are animated by "tradition", which is often code for "continuing to do the thing I grew up with". The legal code changes what people grow up with, thereby changing future hearts and minds.
Take a look at the graph of approval rates of interracial marriage:
Some of the change there is changing hearts and minds. But a lot of it is just the replacement of bigoted hearts and minds with new ones.
As Max Planck wrote, "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
And if that's true for science, it's much more so for cultural things like this. I think there's little point in continuing to harm GLBT families in the hopes of preserving the delicate feelings of people who were unlikely to change anyhow.
A lot of the "hearts and minds" you talk about are animated by "tradition", which is often code for "continuing to do the thing I grew up with". The legal code changes what people grow up with, thereby changing future hearts and minds.
Take a look at the graph of approval rates of interracial marriage:
http://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Prod...
Some of the change there is changing hearts and minds. But a lot of it is just the replacement of bigoted hearts and minds with new ones.
As Max Planck wrote, "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
And if that's true for science, it's much more so for cultural things like this. I think there's little point in continuing to harm GLBT families in the hopes of preserving the delicate feelings of people who were unlikely to change anyhow.