# Gay Marriage in SF-- does this help or hurt the cause? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 12, 2004, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-marriage-in-sf-does-this-help-or-hurt-the-cause/228916 "2004-02-12T20:46:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 31
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2004, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-marriage-in-sf-does-this-help-or-hurt-the-cause/228916/31 "2004-02-13T11:11:50Z")
We aren’t going to see a federal constitutional amendment. Not only does it not even poll with a majority (which is at least a bear MINIMUM for the probable success of a constitutional amendment), but many of the big names in even the conservative side of things oppose it. What we will see are states doing what they can to ban. But I do think having gay marriages on some books, even illegally, does get us something. Suddenly we have the family values crowd trying to break up people’s marriages. That’s a pretty powerful irony that the gay rights crowd can and should play to the hilt. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-marriage-in-sf-does-this-help-or-hurt-the-cause/228916)._