Married in Massachusetts
Posted By Ardellis on May 17, 2007
Three years ago today, Massachusetts became the first (and is still the only) state in the US to legalize gay marriage. At the time, huge numbers of bigots and morons predicted that we would descend willy-nilly into chaos. Marriage as an institution would implode. Society would unravel. God would smite us.
Guess what?
It didn’t happen. If it hadn’t been for the media coverage at the time, I doubt most people in the Commonwealth would even have noticed the transition to equal marriage rights. The only real difference it made was to those families whose status in the eyes of the law is no longer second class.
Yes, there is still the campaign to have the Massachusetts Constitution ammended to bring back discrimination, but the longer that takes, the less likely it will be to happen. At least, that’s my fervent hope.
And if we can hold onto it here, in what is often termed the Cradle of Liberty, then it’s only a matter of time before it spreads.
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