What they intend to do is take an Article IV / Full Faith and Credit Clause beef to SCOTUS accusing 49 States of refusing to recognize queer "marriages" legalized in a single State. They've got three now, and I think they were waiting on Vermont to pass a politicked bill through the legislature.
They'll strike fast now -- IMHO the New York Times article is pure misdirection. Similar articles ran right after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decree abortion. "Don't worry .... go to sleep .... nothing to see here ....." That kind of thing. Deeply, deeply evil.
There was a lawsuit filed on March 3rd in federal court, from Massachusetts, on the subject of same-sex marriage. It can take years for cases to reach the Supreme Court, but it will happen, if they have enough liberal judges.
Barney Frank recently said he doesn’t want gay marriage at the Supreme Court right now because Justice Scalia is a homophone (Frank’s words not mine). If there are vacancies on the Court while Obama is president, and Obama appoints good liberals, then that’s when they will strike and go for a Supreme Court ruling on marriage.
That will be their Roe vs. Wade and Brown vs. Board of Education case rolled into one. It’s just a matter of when they choose to take it up the ladder. They are waiting for liberal judges to be appointed before they go for the gold.
Yes, the homo-activists have been trying to fly under the radar for several decades now, doing their dirty work in secret in obscure lawsuits in obscure jurisdictions, lest the general population got wind of their ultimate target and react decisively to squelch it. But now a new-found open militance is their hallmark; thinking they have obtained critical mass, they no longer feel the need to hide their most overt agendas. I hope that this is a gross miscalculation on their part. Besides, I think more people are onto them now.