So in Maine yesterday, the voters reversed the state’s law allowing gay marriage by a margin of 47-53. This is unfortunate news, especially on the heels of the passage Prop 8 in California.

But here’s some encouragement. Over at The Baseline Scenario, James Kwak presents the following chart, which shows how much different age groups support same-sex marriage, and concludes that “Barring a backlash even bigger than the one we’ve seen over the last ten years (during which…

Going to the Chapel, Eventually

This was a banner year for advocates of same-sex marriage. Although the state supreme court upheld last year’s high-profile vote in California on Proposition 8, which defined marriage as being between a man and a woman, Iowa, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont all joined the company of Massachusetts and Connecticut by legalizing the practice of same-sex wedlock, as did the nation of Sweden (six other countries—Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa,…

Accepting gay marriage in language is more than just wordplay.

Eventually, according to my crystal ball, gay marriage will be legal everywhere. I predict that opposition to the civil right of marriage will be looked back at as vicious, repressive, dark-ages nonsense by our enlightened successors.

But that golden age may be far off; we’re still living in a time when batty objections to gay marriage flourish. Witness, for example, the idea that if we expand marriage…

So in Maine yesterday, the voters reversed the state’s law allowing gay marriage by a margin of 47-53. This is unfortunate news, especially on the heels of the passage Prop 8 in California.

But here’s some encouragement. Over at The Baseline Scenario, James Kwak presents the following chart, which shows how much different age groups support same-sex marriage, and concludes that “Barring a backlash even bigger than the one we’ve seen over the last ten years (during which…

Accepting gay marriage in language is more than just wordplay.

Eventually, according to my crystal ball, gay marriage will be legal everywhere. I predict that opposition to the civil right of marriage will be looked back at as vicious, repressive, dark-ages nonsense by our enlightened successors.

But that golden age may be far off; we’re still living in a time when batty objections to gay marriage flourish. Witness, for example, the idea that if we expand marriage…

Going to the Chapel, Eventually

This was a banner year for advocates of same-sex marriage. Although the state supreme court upheld last year’s high-profile vote in California on Proposition 8, which defined marriage as being between a man and a woman, Iowa, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont all joined the company of Massachusetts and Connecticut by legalizing the practice of same-sex wedlock, as did the nation of Sweden (six other countries—Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa,…