I think a helpful way to think about this is to compare it to 9/11 because a lot of us are asking: How does this directly affect us? Well I wasnt directly affected by 9/11 and my guess is most of you werent either in the sense I didnt know somebody who crashed the plane in the building. I didnt know somebody who was in the building. But after 9/11 the world was a fundamentally different place and that has affected me. The change in the redefinition of marriage is the same type of thing.