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There is a difference between not supporting gay marriage, and choosing to spend $1000 to actively support its prohibition with no personal return besides an increased probability of not seeing same sex couples married in the future. I find it sad that the opponents of gay marriage make a majority in the US, and I am happy to live in a state where they do not.

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There isn't. If I spend any resources opposing something then I spent money however small doing so. If I drove my car to go vote against gay marriage then I spent resources directly and gave up alternative uses of my time to do so. I don't like that the political process is even involved in this but if it must be then debating issues has to be OK and retaliation against folks who disagreed with you in the past seems unhealthy if you want a free exchange of ideas.

I'd wager that the average anti-gay marriage voter in the US does not go to the poll for the purpose of voting to oppose gay marriage. They go to vote for an elected office, or because they were told that it's their duty to vote, and then they see a proposition on the ballot and tick whichever box is against gay marriage. They do this without much thought and based primarily on the views of the community they are immersed in. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

"There is a difference between not supporting gay marriage, and choosing to spend $1000 to actively support its prohibition."

Care to elaborate on what that difference is?

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