12-25-2013, 03:33 PM
(12-19-2013, 04:28 PM)Duchess Wrote: Some kids born today will one day laugh that there once was a time when people who loved each other weren't allowed to legally marry.
After decades of fighting for equality and the right to marry, a lot of battles were won by gay rights advocates in 2013; 2014 is expected to see an even larger increase in states legalizing same-sex marriage.
This was in today's news:
In just the past 12 months, legislatures, voters or courts in 11 states have allowed same-sex marriage. Legislatures passed bills in Washington, Maryland, Rhode Island, Delaware, Minnesota, Hawaii and Illinois; voters upheld those decisions in Washington and Maryland, and legalized same-sex marriage in Maine. The Supreme Court earlier this year ruled against California’s Proposition 8, which invalidated same-sex marriages.
At the same time, the court ruled the federal Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional, a move that judges in several states — New Jersey, New Mexico and Utah — have cited in declaring state bans on same-sex marriage unconstitutional.
Judges in 17 states are considering at least 31 cases seeking to allow gays and lesbians to marry, according to a private count kept by one LGBT group and shared with The Washington Post.
Full story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govb...oint-year/
The times, they are a changing...