Recommended: Same-sex marriage: Conservative and liberal views

The BBC online has an interesting article this morning: Same-sex marriage: Conservative and liberal views.  The author argues that despite the defeats of same-sex marriage laws at the ballot box (most recently in North Carolina this week), opponents of same-sex marriage are going to lose in the long run, because the younger generation is far more tolerant on this issue than their elders.  The author also posits that it is the pressure of the liberal media that is shaping the long term debate, just as it did in the 60's with civil rights.  And, just as America experienced a profound U-turn in attitudes toward racial segregation in just a generation (a remarkably short time for such a strongly held cultural view), it is undergoing a similar 1-generation U-turn on the issue of gay rights and gay marriage.