One useful data point from the NYT today. In 1968, a year after the Supreme Court struck down anti-miscegenation laws:
53 percent of non-blacks agreed that there should be laws against marriages between Negroes and whites.
And around 53 percent of non-gays voted against marriage equality in Prop 8 forty years later. So sme things don;t change. In fact, the popular hostility to miscegnation in America was far deeper and wider in the 1960s than hostility to gay marriage today.
And yet that broad popular majority did not intimidate the courts then, did it?
The Dish 