I think what we are seeing is the inevitable outcome of more than 30 years of marriage being debased by the divorce industry. People are not going to take to the streets with pitch-forks and torches to defend an institution with a more than 50% failure rate. All anyone needs for a divorce is the fee for the lawyer. And anyone who has already been processed on the sheep-shearing assembly line style "family courts" isn't going to be in a big hurry to defend an institution run by divorce lawyers. Especially since the "defense of marriage" crowd stood by and did nothing for decades while millions of families were destroyed by the divorce industry. The time to defend marriage was a long time ago. With the state marriage is in now, there aren't going to be too many super-majorities available to stand up for it.