Brack: Is the country at a tipping point?

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But in the middle of everything leading up to it, did anyone really see that it would happen so quickly? Gladwell points not to politics, but to a television show as moving the nation toward a tipping point to accepting gay marriage. Popular culture shapes those issues, particularly the issue of [gay] marriage … When it came to the issue of marriage, and changing the definition of marriage, there was no change. I believe we are inside of a tipping point – and that it could go either way. Andy Brack is editor and publisher of the Charleston City Paper and Statehouse Report.