Fear is one thing, but voting for hate when love would have cost you nothing is pretty much the quintessence of cowardice. Love will win, and after that, telling the story of standing up for divisiveness and intolerance will be like being proud of having hand-lettered "No Coloreds" signs for water-fountains.  

And although the individual people will be forgiven, the institutions should be forfeit. In particular, any church that campaigned against same-sex marriage has violated the social contract that permits religion and rational society to coexist, and should be seized by eminent domain and fumigated for ignorance.