This is a fantastic step in the right direction, I think. Legalized homosexual marriage is only one of many things that this country (and subsequently world) needs. We're becoming an increasingly global society, and if we're unable to be tolerant of those in our own nations, there's no way we'll ever be able to survive what's inevitably coming. Clinging to archaic beliefs fashioned by a world thousands of years past is, as far as I'm concerned, counterproductive to a functioning society. To move ahead, we need to shed outdated beliefs and embrace ones that function more effectively in a modern society. While I'm not as militantly anti-religion as some, I definitely think it's time that it stops becoming something that influences the laws of a society and instead exclusively influences the thoughts of an individual.