Continuing The Progress Made

Now that Iowa and Vermont have joined Connecticut and Massachusetts in allowing gay marriage, we need to continue to support the idea that equality, love, and respect comes in all different shapes, forms and discriminates against no one. Proposition 8 was a referendum added to the California ballot during the November presidential election which overturned same sex marriages in the state of California. Nate Silver, a blogger and creator of the site fivethrityeight.com which represents the number of electoral votes needed to win the presidency became famous during the election for having the most accurate exit polling during the 2008 election between John McCain, and Barack Obama, calling the election even more accurately than mainstream media outlets, wrote a blog about the historic Iowa ruling. In this blog post on his website he took into account the history of things like this happening and how often a state referendum has happened. Something I found even more fascinating, was towards the bottom of the blog, he estimated when every state in the country would pass a similar law. In my personal opinion, and I would love to be see it happen in my lifetime, I am a little skeptical that gay marriage will be passed in all 50 states during my lifetime because of how divisive and issue it is today. To see people get so worked up about it when it is actually legal in only 4 states, and the religious right feeling like they are being backed into a corner makes me feel like 2009 is the start of something that will hopefully be finished by the next generation. I really hope we can keep the momentum going, and hand off a more caring and understanding world to the future generations.