LGBT rights have been anything but a Boomer victory. Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), granting gays the right to marry, would have come out the other way were it not for the coalition of non-Boomer liberals and Anthony Kennedy.*,25 To ask whether Obama’s tardy support of gay unions gave Kennedy cover or lower courts gave cover to Obama is to miss the point. Obergefell reflected the mores of younger people, not the Boomers. The Boomers remain more ambivalent about gay rights than succeeding generations, as shown in opinion polls and their sporadic efforts to amend state constitutions in
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