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I'd guess that legalizing gay marriage would be pretty low-hanging fruit, but I don't know how politically possible it is.
It's hard to think of a policy which would have a smaller impact on a smaller fraction of the wealthiest population on earth. And it faces extremely dedicated opposition.
Well, I mean "low-hanging fruit" in that it doesn't really cost any money to implement. Symbolism is cheap; providing material benefits is more expensive, especially in developed countries.
I don't know much about the political situation in Scotland; I know about a few miscellaneous stupidities in the U.S. federal government that I'd like to get rid of (abstinence-only sex education, "alternative" medicine research) but I suspect that Scotland and the rest of the U.K. is stupid in different ways than the U.S. is.
Gay marriage is already legal in Scotland, albeit under the name "civil partnership".
The whole of the UK has civil partnership, not just Scotland. It's also illegal to discriminate on gender attraction in employment and in the provision of goods and services.