re: How are people supposed to explain gay marriage to their kids?

"Well, kids... some time ago there was this country called the United States of America that had a document called a Constitution. That Constitution designated certain powers to the national government and the rest to the States. Worked pretty well until the 17th Amendment, which allowed for direct election of Senators, thus completely unteathering the national government from the states.

Over time, the national government continued to expand and encroach on state power. Challenges to this at the Supreme Court were initially successful, but then justices more friendly to national government power were put on the Court. Those Justices ultimately decided that the Constitution was "antiquated" and because they were too impatient to wait for the amendment process, started deciding on their own to change the Constitution by ignoring its text and context.

In doing so, they reduced the states to mere lines on a map and endorsed the takeover of all theretofore recognized state level powers by bastardizing the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause. That's what led to the forced legalization of gay marriage, even though only a handful of states actually voted in favor of it.

But enough about that...how is your sister Brian and her wife the Yorkie doing?"