I find it hard to believe that this new law will cause more gay RELATIONSHIPS. This is really a legal thing; in the secular world, gay relationships are already basically accepted. I don’t think that from that perspective, except as a symbol (which one could argue is a point but I think it’s a limited one as, like I said above, attitudes aren’t changing all that much).
assurnet: Obviously true, but what can you do about it now?
HaKatan: As I mentioned above, gay relationships are, for all practical purposes, normal already. It’s this normality that is CAUSING gay marriage to be passed into law, not vice versa. If gay marriages were not accepted, the bill would never in a million years pass.
In essence, the same people who found gay relationships unacceptable before the bill will find them unacceptable afterward. The Torah will not change with the New Jersey law.