Yeah, that's the scary part of this whole thing. It's not the gay marriage thing -- the issue could be anything -- it's that we've elected people that have chosen politics as a career and will do or say anything to keep their careers.
My grandfather was the mayor of a small town in Oregon once. He didn't get the job because he decided he was going to make a career of politics; he took the job because it was his turn to be mayor. Every adult male took his turn every year and then went back into private life.
We've gotten away from governing ourselves and turned to McGovernment to cure every little ill. We just couldn't be bothered. Better to have the wife get a job to pay more taxes to have everything taken care of (or so we thought) than to take care of the niggling details of life ourselves (like raising kids).
Now we've got a segment of the population that's decided it's above the law, and that segment of society is our government. That's not anarchy--it's totalitarianism.