WA bans gay marriage (I don’t care)

Today, Washington’s State Supereme Court upheld a ban on gay marriage.  To this end I have two things to say; first off, I believe gay people should be allowed to marry, and anyone opposed to this is simply needs to spend a little time around gay people.  Secondly, (and I’d like to say that Teresa does not share this view) I honest don’t think it’s that big a deal, and I think it distracts from more serious issues. For example:
- Congress is full of people who only care about staying there, and are hopelessly out of touch.  The incumbency rate is 98 percent, and the septuagenarian Senator in charge of regulating the internet thinks its a series of tubes. 
- The education budget was recently cut by 3 billion dollars. 
- We spent 5 billion dollars this year subsiziding corn.
- 14,000 civilians were killed in Iraq this year, largely by Shiite death squads and Sunni insurgents.  The country is essentially in the middle of a sectarian civil war which grows worse by the day, and the Middle East was much more stable with Saddam in power.
- The Taliban were not wiped out and are on the attack now because too many our forces left Afghanistan before we had fully stabilized the country.
- We have a ten trillion dollar debt, much of which is now in the hands of foreign investors.
- The personal savings rate has dropped to zero percent.
- Our President and 38 Senators prefer to discard as frozen embryo’s as medical waste than deal with difficult moral quandries and make rational life-saving decisions.
- Global warming gets worse, and we still refuse to adhere to the standards set by the Kyoto Accord.
- I (and the majority of voters) prefer to read articles or watch talk shows about gay marriage because it’s more interesting than all the above topics combined. But I don’t understand why. If you do, please let me know.