Farewell, all you old homophobes

California's extraordinary, newfound majority support for gay marriage?

Thank the young.

It's a generational thing, you could say, grinning just a little as you do so.

It's because younger people today — those under, say, 45 or so — have been far more exposed to the gay "lifestyle" and to more fluid notions of gender and sexuality, to the idea of homosexuality as a common, nonthreatening, everyday, what's-the-big-deal shrug, and therefore, as a demographic, they/we understand that allowing gay people to wed doesn't actually mean our shaky notions of God and family and society will collapse like a priest's willpower at a Boy Scout jamboree.

Read the rest by Mark Morford here. (yep, this witty, smart, RIGHT ON writer is also a yoga teacher!)