"I AM opposed to this issue being given way more press and media spin lately than, frankly, I think it deserves."

Now that the battle is (at least for now) won in Iowa the main play it gets in the media is because of the continued opposition of those who fell the same as Ake and GfS. I think it would drop out of the news cycle altogether if the anti crowd would let it. "Same-sex couple weds" is no longer a story.